Tools like Selenium make writing automated browser tests dead easy. Many teams never look further than this, and are satisfied with just replacing their laborious manual testing efforts with reliable Selenium scripts. They’ve missed a big opportunity.
This chapter from the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python” provides recommendations on how to perform unit tests in Python and presents the unitest and doctest modules. It also lists the tools that are available to perform unit testing in Python.
When discussing TDD with my friends and coworkers, often heatedly, an interesting pattern has appeared. All of the arguments about expensive refactoring and the need for up-front design are never really challenged. Instead, what has always been the final refuge for those arguing for TDD is that it makes development fun again.
HP Quick Test Professional is a test automation tool, also known as QTP. It is used to automate functional, regression and smoke test cases. It is a very popular software testing tool and works on MS windows O/S, supports development technologies like Active X, Delphi, Java, .Net, Oracle, People Soft, Web services etc. This article presents some best practices while doing automation using QTP.
This presentation shows how to easily go from user stories to automated integration tests that themselves read like user stories. You can accomplish this by using custom domain-specific languages (DSL).
Testing strategies are well understood and established in traditional Object Oriented and/or functional settings. The same is not true for asynchronous, event-driven paradigms such as the actor model, in which the timing and execution context of assertions is important and temporal relations between generated events become test objectives.
This article provides an article on how to create unit tests for a Visual C# class in a Windows Store app with Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 and the Microsoft Unit Testing Framework.
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