SpecsFor.Mvc is an open source tools that allows you to create automated acceptance tests using browser automation, meaning your entire application is tested from the UI all the way down to the database, exactly as a real user will use your application. However, unlike many other solutions which rely on recording actions or require you to learn a completely new framework and syntax, SpecsFor.Mvc uses familiar unit-testing tools and syntax.

In this blog post, Mark Barne shares some useful tips and techniques to challenge those attempting to adopt acceptance test driven development within a corporate environment. Amongst the tips that I liked the best I will mention “Don’t clean up after tests”. Leaving the data created by the test can help immensely when issues are found. “Create unique contexts for each test”. To prevent tests stepping on each other’s toes if they are run in parallel, create a unique context for the test. “Don’t write the test at all.” If …

For Node, there are two types of automated testing: unit testing and acceptance testing. Unit testing tests code logic directly and is applicable to all types of applications. Acceptance testing, however, is an additional layer of testing most commonly used for web applications. This article discusses the Tobi and Soda frameworks for acceptance testing.

This blog post provides a detail process on how to write  acceptance tests for the UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables.  Fit tables, originally defined for the fitnesse open source software testing tool, allow stakeholders and business analysts to enter expected input and the proper output in a tool they are comfortable wit, like word processor or a spreadsheet.

SpecsFor.Mvc is a software testing tool that enables to create automated acceptance tests using a browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. This means that your application is tested from the UI all the way down to the database. Unlike  other tools which rely on recording actions, you write strongly-typed tests against your ASP.NET MVC controllers, action methods and view models. SpecsFor.Mvc takes care of translating your tests to the browser. Matt Honeycutt blog post provides a detailed introduction to SpecsFor.Mvc. It discusses the challenges of automated acceptance tests and how …

Robot Framework is a test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) that uses a keyword-driven testing approach. Thomas Jaspers has created four blog posts that provide a comprehensive tutorial for Robot Framework.

This blog post give a detailed code on how to distribute Robot automated acceptance tests to several virtual box instances using Chef. Pavlo Baron explains how using Vagrant and VirtualBox as a poor’s man virtualization and wiring with Chef, you can run in parallel your acceptance testing suite in a distributed environment.

One of the most common mistakes that teams made was treating specifications or related automation code as less important than production code. Examples of this are giving the automation tasks to less-capable developers and testers and not maintaining the automation layer with the same kind of effort applied to production code.
Reference: “Specification by Example – How successful teams deliver the right software”, Gojko Adzic, Manning, 249 pages, IBSN 978-1617290084

Gherkin is the language that was originally used to define tests in Cucumber, a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. Acceptance criteria are an important element of agile specifications, but they are often used just vaguely or omitted completely.

Thucydides is an open source tool that lets you use WebDriver-based unit or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tests to write more flexible and more reusable WebDriver-based tests, and also to generate documentation about your acceptance tests. In this blog post, John Ferguson Smart explains how you can use Spring dependencies in your acceptance tests with Thucydides if you need to run your acceptance tests against an embedded web server.