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Meet the Author of the Selenium Refcard

Recently DZone released the Selenium Refcard, written by Frank Cohen. Selenium seems like a vital tool for test driven development of web applications. I spoke...

0 replies - 6425 views - 09/11/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

It is Not About Writing Tests, It's About Writing Stories

I would like to make an analogy between building software and building a car. I know it is imperfect one, as one is about design and the other is about...

2 replies - 4226 views - 09/03/09 by Misko Hevery in Articles

Web Testing BDD-style With JWebUnit and Easyb

Behaviour-driven development is a great way to design and build the web layers of your application. In this article, I look at how to use JWebUnit, a fast...

1 replies - 5058 views - 08/17/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Reorganizing Long Test Classes

For the next release of FEST-Swing, the number of automated tests has increased considerably: from 2,677 to 3,000+ (and counting!) Special attention has been...

1 replies - 2995 views - 07/28/09 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

Borland Introduces Silk 2009

Borland today unveiled Silk 2009, a comprehensive software test suite designed to support the testing needs of both Agile and traditional development teams...

0 replies - 4775 views - 07/20/09 by Justin Sargent in Announcements

Software Testing Categorization

You hear people talking about small/medium/large/unit/integration/functional/scenario tests but do most of us really know what is meant by that? Here...

0 replies - 4313 views - 07/18/09 by Misko Hevery in News

Software Testing Categorization

You hear people talking about small/medium/large/unit/integration/functional/scenario tests but do most of us really know what is meant by that? Here...

4 replies - 3432 views - 07/15/09 by Misko Hevery in Articles

Why are We Embarrassed to Admit That We Don’t Know How to Write Tests?

Take your average developer and ask “do you know language/technology X?” None of us will feel any shame in admitting that we do not know X. After...

7 replies - 4848 views - 07/08/09 by Misko Hevery in Articles

Making Mock Data Circular

Was writing a test today where I was doing a Command Pattern that would allow me to contain a set of repeated invocations in a timebox. In other words:...

5 replies - 3940 views - 06/25/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

How Do You Convince Your Boss to TDD?

A reader asks: My boss knows about TDD but won’t allow us to use it because he thinks that it is just a passing hype that everyone talks about but...

9 replies - 9049 views - 05/17/09 by Misko Hevery in Articles

The Changing Definition of Continuous Integration

As we wrap up every CITCON, we’re asked about what we take away. For me, a revelation was that the definition of Continuous Integration has changed wildly....

4 replies - 7215 views - 04/28/09 by Eric Minick in Articles

Testing the Validity of Google App Engine Dashboard Data

The DashBoard of Google App Engine presents interesting results, but what is the truth behind this data? I started by deploying a simple Java...

4 replies - 6075 views - 04/16/09 by Khaled Ben Driss in Articles

How to do Everything Wrong With Servlets

When I interview people I often ask them what an evil developer would do to make his code hard to test. Servlets are a great example of what to do if...

8 replies - 7494 views - 04/09/09 by Misko Hevery in Articles

JUnit Plugin: Better But Still Neglected

In his book The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric Raymond tried to lay out the ‘code‘ of the open source world (so Hemingway), and notes that the darkest...

2 replies - 5906 views - 03/30/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

Start Testing Your Javascript Server-less

Are you still launching tomcat to test your Javascript code? You shouldn't. When applying the MVC pattern, HTML as been always considered to be part of the...

1 replies - 8251 views - 03/24/09 by Ignacio Coloma in Articles