Having [automated] unit/integration/functional/… tests is great but
it is too easy for them to become a hindrance, making any change to the
system...
2 replies - 3139 views - 11/24/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
I was in the office yesterday, talking about testing to one of my
colleagues who was a little unconvinced by writing unit tests. One of
the reasons that he...
14 replies - 4408 views - 11/21/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I was attending a workshop at XP/Agile Universe in 2002 when the
phrase 'Specification By Example' struck me as a way to describe one
of roles of testing in...
0 replies - 7186 views - 11/18/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles
There’s not much doubt about it, the way you test your code is a
contentious issue. Different test techniques find favour with different
developers for...
2 replies - 3490 views - 11/17/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
My last blog
was the first in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code,
outlining a simple scenario of retrieving an address from a database
using...
0 replies - 4915 views - 11/16/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
Good functional testing is one of the most difficult tasks for web
application developers and their teams. It is a challenge to develop
tests that are...
0 replies - 5571 views - 11/14/11 by Carey Flichel in Articles
Cirilo Wortel recently attended the QA&TEST Conference which featured a strong list of speakers and a wide variety of talks on test automation, user...
1 replies - 3850 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
It seems to me that developers often do not really distinguish
between the various types of unit tests they should be writing and thus
mix things that...
2 replies - 4650 views - 10/26/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous...
0 replies - 5952 views - 10/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Selenium 2 features new Api and implementations which goes under the name of WebDriver. It's a simpler, faster, object-oriented Api that applies to modern web...
0 replies - 9300 views - 10/25/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
So far I’ve written a couple of blogs on PowerMock covering some of what
I think are its most useful features. Today’s blog takes a look at...
3 replies - 8457 views - 10/24/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I like writing unit tests but Java doesn’t make it particularly easy.
Especially if you need to create objects and object trees, transform
objects for...
14 replies - 5775 views - 10/20/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
After two releases of the open source version of protobuf-dt
and ten Google-internal ones, code complexity grow to a point that more
comprehensive testing...
1 replies - 5718 views - 10/19/11 by Alex Ruiz in Articles
In this example I will show how you can perform a standard Maven build
whilst keeping your unit and integration tests in separate packages.
Other...
1 replies - 5812 views - 10/19/11 by John Dobie in Articles
If you got used to JUnit 4′s assertThat with various
matchers (of course you will need junit-dep.jar and hamcrest.jar to get
the full set instead of the...
0 replies - 3106 views - 10/17/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
