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Death to all bugs! Arquillian testing platform reaches first stable release

Red Hat, Inc. and the JBoss Community today announced the 1.0.0.Final release of Arquillian, its award-winning testing platform built to run on the Java...

3 replies - 7821 views - 04/10/12 by Dan Allen in Articles

Trying Not to Overdo It With Testing

The design of the code which contains the main logic of the application that I’m currently working on looks a bit like the diagram on the right hand...

0 replies - 2343 views - 03/31/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Unit Testing is a Means to an End

Most professional software developers these days understand the importance and value of writing and using unit tests. A nice summary of some of the oft-touted...

0 replies - 4410 views - 03/29/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Testing Formatting in Eclipse Editors: Real Unit Tests

In my previous post I described how I tested formatting in an Eclipse editor. The decision to write a functional test made sense back then because I...

0 replies - 4318 views - 03/12/12 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

On Useless Testing...

All testing is not valuable. There. I said it. If you take a look at the source of Blaag, you might notice a certain lack of tests. No unit test, no tests at...

1 replies - 9924 views - 03/09/12 by Fredrik Håård in Articles

Asynchronous and negative testing

The photograph describing this article is a temperature probe for checking, of course, temperature differentials. Test-Driven Development is a technique that...

0 replies - 6474 views - 03/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Unit testing is for lazy people

The other day I was talking to a guy about a possible freelancing gig and he said how wonderful it was that I should bring up the topic of unit/automated...

13 replies - 7875 views - 03/01/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

What Assumptions Do Your Tests Make?

Does your test suite launch your application or expect it to be running already? This question came up while working on a client project; I launched the...

1 replies - 2254 views - 02/27/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

Test Driven Development and Neo4J: Using @Rule and Avoiding Containers

Been doing some coding with Neo4J. Pretty interesting experience so far, but one thing is for sure: being able to write seriously sophisticated code that...

0 replies - 3895 views - 02/20/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

The Difficulty With Custom @Rule in JUnit 4

@Rules are no doubt a good idea. But let me first be my usual critical self. The way they were rolled out as part of the...

0 replies - 3096 views - 02/17/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Unit Tests: Searching under the Lamp Post

I’m a big fan of unit tests (Surprise). When ever possible I practice TDD. I like how that approach coerces <check this> me into making smaller...

0 replies - 2282 views - 02/08/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Testing asynchronous applications with WebDriverWait

If you’re testing a web application, you can’t go far wrong with Selenium WebDriver. But in this web 2.0 world of ajax-y goodness, it can be a pain dealing...

0 replies - 4029 views - 02/03/12 by David Green in Articles

How to Create Maintainable Acceptance Tests

This post summarizes what I’ve learned from various sources about making acceptance or black-box tests maintainable. This topic is of great interest to...

4 replies - 5035 views - 01/30/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Top DZone Article of 2011: The 7 Levels of Continuous Integration

I’ve noticed that when other developers talk about “continuous integration” they do not always mean the same thing. The following is an outline of the...

11 replies - 18188 views - 01/29/12 by Dror Helper in News

Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way

Tests developed during TDD can be classified into several levels, depending on the size of the object graph they need to work with. End-to-end tests span the...

0 replies - 6257 views - 01/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles