Software Testing Magazine

Using Pex and Moles to Generate Unit Tests for WCF Service Calls

February 6, 2012 0

This article provides a detailed description on how use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The Pex tool, which automatically generates test suites with high code coverage, will be used to generate unit tests. Moles allows to replace any .NET method with a delegate. They will be generated to isolate the external dependency (WCF proxy) and behavior will be redefined using delegates.

Functional Testing Tools Directory

February 6, 2012 0

The Functional Testing Tools Directory presents a list of commercial or open source functional software testing tools like Selenium, Cucumber or JBehave. The web site also proposes pointers to tools reviews or presentations and contains a page of resources associated to functional software testing. Visit http://www.functionaltestingtools.com/

Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

February 2, 2012 0

This video describes the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing. Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late.

Testing First is Thinking First

February 2, 2012 0

“As we were saying, up-front testing really isn’t testing at all. It is really up-front design through the analysis of our tests. Can we take this testing even further? When XP came out and suggested doing unit tests, many of us realized that if we combined a series of unit tests together, we could get the equivalent of automated acceptance testing.”

Reducing Rails Testing Time

January 31, 2012 0

In those days where software tests are integrated in continuous integration cycles, it is a necessity that they run in a minimized amount of time. This article explains how through controlled memory usage, increased parallelism, transactional factory invocation, pragmatically judicious test refactoring and a few miscellaneous extras, it was possible to reduce the time needed to run the tests of a ruby on rails application in continuous-integration environments by a factor of ten.

Cucumber with JVM Improvements

January 31, 2012 0

Cucumber-JVM is a pure Java implementation of Cucumber, a software testing tool that support Behavior Driven Development with plain text specifications and unobtrusive automation in Ruby. Cucumber-JVM supports Clojure, Groovy, Java, JavaScript (Rhino interpreter), Python (Jython interpreter), Ruby (JRuby interpreter) and Scala. It is now written in a native Java-API, which compiles down to fast JVM bytecode. It enables many JVM capabilities and makes it even easier to integrate with your Java applications. Note from the Editor: we had the regret to realize after publication that there is no sound on this video. We should have tested this before ;o(

Seven Sins of Software Testing Automation

January 31, 2012 0

In this blog post, Adrian Smith discusses 7 pitfalls of automating software testing. The seven sins are over indulging on propriety testing tools, too lazy to setup CI server to execute tests, loving the UI so much that all tests are executed through the UI, jealously creating tests and not collaborating, frustration with fragile tests that break intermittently, thinking automated tests will replace all manual testing, too much automated testing not matched to defined system quality.