Celtic Testing Experts Inc, based in Georgia, USA, long-term software QA partner to some of the world’s largest companies, is expanding its range of QA services through a new initiative with load and performance testing specialist Reflective Solutions.

When you need to perform unit testing in an independent way, you use mock objects. Mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. In this excerpt of their book “Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit”, Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas and Matt Hargett explain how to avoid coupling when you build your C# unit tests.

Typemock has announced the launch of Typemock Isolator V7.4 for .NET developers. The new Typemock Isolator V7.4 includes features that increase development productivity as well as enhance code quality: Visual coverage has been added so that all the information you need to unit test is at your fingertips. This enables programmers to detect and fix bugs quicker than ever.

James Waldrop of Twitter discusses the tools, process and philosophy that goes into performance testing at Twitter. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Iago open source load testing library, which he wrote to enable Twitter’s engineering teams to perform load tests before deploying code to production.
This presentation dives into implementation details of some of these tests (including source code) and how complicating factors such as OAuth and arbitrary Thrift protocols are managed.

Video producer: https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-conference/
Slides: http://goo.gl/9VY2b

Catch Software announced the release of Enterprise Tester 4.7. This latest edition introduces Rally integration for user stories, time-saving features for test planning and execution, and a JIRA 5+ (BETA) Plugin.

Cigniti Technologies has announced today the acquisition of Gallop Solutions . The combined entity is poised to become the world’s third largest independent software testing services company with revenues of $40 Million and more than 800 people worldwide. Cigniti Technologies is one of the fast growing IT services companies in this space and aims to become the world leader in software testing in the next few years through a combination of organic and inorganic growth.

Reflective Solutions is delighted to announce the availability of the newly released Maximo Pack 3 for StressTester™, which ensures that automating Maximo® performance testing is now as easy as testing the performance of any other web based application.

ompuware AJAX Edition 4.1 adds support for Firefox 19 and Firefox 20 as well as support for IE10 on Windows 7. The team also fixed some smaller stability issues users reported with Firefox.

PHPUnit is an open source unit testing software framework for software written in the PHP programming language. Created by Sebastian Bergmann, PHPUnit is one of the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck’s SUnit. This article will explore PHPUnit specifically as a way to introduce the basics of automated unit testing. You’ll need a basic grasp of the PHP programming language to proceed!

Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is defined as doing in the same activity application learning, test cases and test design and execution. In this article, Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark propose to perform exploratory testing using a storytelling game format. This is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story.