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Defects are for Losers

A developer is responsible for using any and all techniques to produce defect free code.  The average developer does not take advantage of all of the...

0 replies - 1415 views - 05/07/13 by Dalip Mahal in Articles

Integration Tests From the Trenches

 This post is the written form of one of my submission for Devoxx France 2013. As it was only chosen as backup, I lacked the necessary motivation to...

0 replies - 2616 views - 04/29/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Lightweight Testing of Heavyweight IBM Message Broker Solutions

This article shows a hands-on approach of how you can test your IBM WebSphere Message Broker solutions in a simple way using modern Groovy and Java...

0 replies - 1371 views - 04/05/13 by Magnus Palmér in Articles

Automated Testing is Cancer

One trend is slowly destroying our industry: the requirement of automated testing on the code we write. This madness goes from writing tests before the code...

9 replies - 15998 views - 04/01/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

JUnit Testing of Spring MVC Application: Testing Controller

In continuation of my earlier blogs on Introduction to Spring MVC and Testing Service layer in Spring MVC, in this blog I will demonstrate how to test...

0 replies - 4152 views - 03/04/13 by Krishna Prasad in Articles

Chronicle and the Micro-Cloud

OverviewA common question I face is; how do you scale a Chronicle based system if it is single writer, multiple readers.While there are solutions to this...

0 replies - 1947 views - 02/27/13 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

A Facebook Capacity Engineer on the Future of Testing

At the ØREDEV conference in Sweden, Goranka Bjedov spoke about the future of testing and quality, drawing on her experience as a capacity planning engineer at...

0 replies - 1947 views - 02/11/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Characterization Tests with MagicTest

MagicTest introduced a new visual approach to testing. In its first release, MagicTest was targeted at supporting unit tests. However the visual approach to...

0 replies - 2083 views - 12/21/12 by Thomas Mauch in Articles

The danger of large releases: Trenord case study

In these days (Italian link) the majority of trains in the Milan area in Italy have run late from 15 to 60 minutes, while a significant number of them have...

2 replies - 8481 views - 12/12/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Is There a Need for Emulators If You Have to Test on Actual Devices?

This is in response to a comment on my post about the undocumented way I found of creating a xap file you can't deploy to a #wp8 device. In...

0 replies - 3270 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

How to Test a Custom Exception Using Custom FEST Assertions

 Introduction This is part three of my posts on assertions testing using Fest, JUnit and custom Exceptions. The first post was covering the basics of...

0 replies - 1721 views - 11/26/12 by Mike Ensor in Articles

Why having an API matters: testing

You know when they tell you exposing an HTTP API for your application (usually a REST-like one) is positive for reuse and accessing it in unforeseen ways?...

0 replies - 5194 views - 11/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Testability and Cost of Change

That ThoughtWorks consultants, with others, were at Google for a year and a half on a mission to help socialize better testing practice, is now a matter of...

0 replies - 4980 views - 11/14/12 by Paul Hammant in Articles

Do You Know Why You Are Testing?! (On The Principles Underlying TDD)

 Kent Beck in his recent post Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures summarizes well the key principles and benefits that underlie test-driven...

0 replies - 2762 views - 11/06/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Functional Tests in Play! 2 with REST-assured

In the Play! documentation, several flavours of functional testing are mentioned, including starting a HTTP server for the duration of the test – this is...

0 replies - 2004 views - 11/06/12 by Steve Chaloner in Articles