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.
This blog post explains how to separate integration and unit tests with Maven, Sonar, Failsafe and JaCoCo. This is achieved by executing unit tests via Surefire and integration tests via Failsafe. Then you show as much information about them as possible in Sonar. The post provides detailed command lines and Maven configuration files to achieve this goal.
This blog post discusses how to apply a Test-driven Development (TDD) approach to non-functional requirements like performance. He proposes examples on how to test performance with time and memory constraints. He suggests that it is possible to extend this approach to performance, scalability, portability, maintainability and even more abstracts requirements like usability, accessibility.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a different way of approaching the “how to validate your code” problem. It aims to help focus development on the delivery of prioritized, verifiable business value by providing a common vocabulary. This video discusses various ways to try out BDD in Python, from the periodically maligned doctests to simple unittest module usages to more specialized modules.
This blog post presents the Q&A of the “Application Testing in the Cloud Made Easy” session of the Oracle Enterprise Management Forum. It presents the last evolutions in Oracle Application Testing Suite which includes Oracle Functional Testing, Oracle Load Testing and Oracle Test Manager.
Learn how Robotium works with standard Android instrumentation tests, including details on how it can be used in real life. Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications. Test case developers can write function, system and acceptance test scenarios, spanning multiple Android activities.
James A. Whittaker, the former Test Director for Chrome and Chrome OS, discusses in this article what it means to be a Google tester and how Google testers approach the problems of scale, complexity and mass usage.
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