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Example-driven Testing With Easyb

Easyb is a powerful and elegent Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) tool based on Groovy. It excels at being light-weight, highly readable, and easy to...

0 replies - 4814 views - 09/23/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Automate Your Integration Tests

Software testing traditionally has been separated between unit testing – testing classes in isolation – and integration testing – testing across all...

3 replies - 7468 views - 09/21/10 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Testing in JEE 6? Same Old Story: Not There

OMG. Maybe I went from sippy cup to gulping the koolaid on JEE 6 a bit too quickly. Went to make a simple test today of my project, you know, so I could...

7 replies - 4019 views - 09/20/10 by Rob Williams in Articles

JUnit: Custom ExpectedException Rules…Rule!

I’ve been using JUnit 4.7′s ExpectedException rule for some time now and I love it! IMHO, it combines the best of the old JUnit 3.x pattern for...

0 replies - 8753 views - 09/17/10 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

How to Clean Your Java Functions and Arguments

Have you ever been significantly impeded by bad code?  (Uncle) Bob Martin, the CEO of Object Mentor, asked this question at the NDC 2010 conference this year...

4 replies - 11528 views - 08/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Groovin' on the Testin'

I'm at the point now where I'm writing Groovy code for (virtually) all my unit and integration tests. Tapestry's testing code is pretty densely written...

1 replies - 6671 views - 08/25/10 by Howard Lewis Ship in News

Geb: Groovy Functional Testing on the Web

Have you ever wanted an automated, cross-browser testing tool for Groovy that also works as a screen scraping and process automation tool?  If you have, then...

0 replies - 13911 views - 08/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Writing Unit Tests Is Your Job, So Quit Making Excuses

For whatever reason, I have seen the topic of unit tests appear in my daily reading frequently the past few days. Because I am in that kind of mood, I...

6 replies - 6654 views - 08/16/10 by Robert Diana in Articles

Writing Tests: Don’t Make “Not my Job” “Just Business”

Philosophy and economics have something to say about Unit Testing. There are two schools of thought about whether programmers should have to write tests to...

0 replies - 4573 views - 08/13/10 by Bruce Wallace in Articles

New JSFUnit Hops on Arquillian Bandwagon

JBoss' Java Server Faces testing framework, JSFUnit, has just released version 1.3 with a couple of new features and one significant fix that now allows...

0 replies - 5705 views - 08/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

I Don't Write Unit Tests Because.... : The Excuses

As someone who's seen the benefits of the approach, I'm a huge believer in test driven development. It adds a level of quality and maturity to the field of...

19 replies - 13407 views - 08/12/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

clojure.test Introduction

I'll admit it, the first thing I like to do when learning a new language is fire up a REPL. However, I'm usually ready for the next step after typing in a few...

1 replies - 3267 views - 08/12/10 by Jay Fields in Articles

Do Developers Have Enough Time to Keep Their Skills Up-To-Date?

Over half of the developers polled in a recent survey by Embarcadero Technologies say "no," they don't have enough time to learn that new language,...

5 replies - 22871 views - 08/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Selenium 2/Web Driver - the Land Where Page Objects are King!

In the world of automated web testing, Selenium 2/WebDriver is the new kid on the block, but it is also arguably the most compelling web testing tool...

1 replies - 9384 views - 08/10/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

A Bug Story

Even with unit tests, integration tests, stress tests, there are times when you put something out into the wild and something starts happening that you...

0 replies - 3683 views - 08/06/10 by Rob Williams in Articles