Software Testing Magazine

Test Automation in Continuous Delivery

March 19, 2012 0

This article discusses how test automation can help achieving continuous delivery. It suggests to start small with a good investment on a robust automation suite, to give it your best people and to cultivate habits in your team that respect tests. Test automation reduces cycle times and also improves the cost of each deployment.This is achieved by earlier feedback to developer through automated tests improves the quality of builds that the testers work on, provided they pick up green builds. There is also a direct reduction in testing cost, as fewer people are needed to run the tests.

When to Automate Software Tests

March 19, 2012 0

The debate about automating or not the software test has always been active in the software development community. This blog post by Ole Laursen discusses the issue of automating software tests with a balanced perspective that presents equally circumstances where automation has benefits or disadvantages.

Scalability Testing

March 15, 2012 0

This blog post provides guidelines for scalability testing. It defines the difference between load, performance and scalability testing. A well-designed workload is the first requirement for any performance testing is a well-designed workload. The post provides hints how to to plan, run and analyze scalability tests.

Functional Software Testing Heuristics

March 15, 2012 0

This blog post presents an interesting vision of how functional software testing works. It discusses the lack of profiency in functional testing and references James Bach SFDPO (Structure, Function, Data, Platform, Operations) heuristic as a guide for providing new functional testing perspectives.

Verify Mock Behavior in Mockito Java Unit Tests

March 14, 2012 0

Mockito is an open source mock framework for Java that letsyou write beautiful tests with clean and simple API. This video shows how to verify mock objects using Mockito.

Introduction to Apex Code Test Methods

March 12, 2012 0

Unit tests are comprised of test methods and classes that verify whether a particular piece of code is working properly. This article introduces test methods in the salesforce.com environment. It details why test methods are a critical part of Force.com application development, test method syntax, best practices, and advanced topics such as test methods for Visualforce controllers and Apex web service callouts.

Getting Started with Selenium 2

March 12, 2012 0

Selenium is a popular framework for testing the user interface (UI) of a web application. It is an extremely powerful tool for running end-to-end functional tests. You can write tests in several programming languages and Selenium executes them into one or multiple browsers.