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Use Clover to generate code coverage reports of your Integration/Automation Tests

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Clover is a great tool for generating code coverage reports from your unit tests. It can be executed as a plugin in Eclipse, Maven or Ant. However, not everyone knows that it can also be used to collect coverage data of integration tests.

0 replies - 2640 views - 01/08/12 by Avi Yehuda in Articles

Automate Configuration Management Using Tokens!

Here’s the problem: Your application has numerous config files, and the values in these config files differ on every server or every environment. You hate manually updating the values every time you deploy your applications to a new environment, because...

4 replies - 3453 views - 12/18/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Automation: You're Doing it Wrong

There's a common antipattern in build automation that Eric Minick of UrbanCode described quite well in his blog today:A common pattern I see is deployment (or build) automation that routinely fails due to a set of common issues. When the deployment fails,...

0 replies - 4634 views - 10/20/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Executable Specifications: Automating Your Requirements Document

One of the biggest problems in software development is the "DONE" problem. We have in our possession a stack of index cards representing user stories and we're tasked with transforming them into working software. How do we know when we've...

2 replies - 8963 views - 12/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Build Scripts? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Build Scripts!

Ahh, famous last words of the close-minded programmer.

7 replies - 10726 views - 10/08/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts)

Today I'm kicking off a new emphasis here at Agile Zone on software project automation.

2 replies - 8503 views - 10/04/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Write Your Own Custom Automation Using java.awt.Robot

The following tip shows how to use java.awt.Robot to create your own handy custom made automation. Running this example will open up Firefox in your system and type in twitter.com, loading the page for you. Isn't that cool? Try it yourself.import...

7 replies - 7435 views - 02/10/10 by Senthil Balakrishnan in Tips and Tricks

LiquidTest - Browser Automation Testing Framework Released

During these testing times, you cannot afford to be inefficient. Correcting problems early in the development process is critical when producing quality software. LiquidTest is a tool that will allow you to save time by finding defects as they occur, automate...

0 replies - 2388 views - 02/06/09 by Anthony Scotney in Announcements

Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit

TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very robust...

4 replies - 24302 views - 06/24/08 by Michael Minella in Articles