Software Testing Magazine

The Agile Testing Quadrants

November 9, 2011 0

in this blog post, Lisa Crispin proposes a short explanation on how to use and interpret the Agile Testing Quadrants defined by Brian Marick. The quadrants are a taxonomy that can help teams to plan their testing and to make sure they have all the resources they need to accomplish it.

Using JMeter to Test a RESTful Web Service

November 8, 2011 0

JMeter is open source software designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. This video shows how with JMeter as an automated test harness, You can trigger a breakpoint in a Jersey / JTA / JPA / Hibernate / MySQL / Glassfish RESTful web service.

Using Design of Experiments to Reduce System Testing Cost

November 8, 2011 0

Software and system testing cost the commercial and defense industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually. In addition, conducting each set of tests takes multiple man-months, delaying time to market of key technologies. In this current economic environment, organizations are looking for ways to reduce the cost of testing and time to market while ensuring that defects are not passed on to the customer.

Behavior-Driven Development for Ruby on Rails

November 7, 2011 1

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is similar to test-driven development (TDD), but the tests for BDD are written in an easier-to-understand language so that developers and clients alike can clearly understand what is being tested. In this article based on chapter 2 of Rails 3 in Action, the authors discuss two tools for BDD: RSpec and Cucumber.

Testable Enterprise Development with Arquillian

November 3, 2011 0

This presentation addresses the missing link in Enterprise Java development: simple, easy integration testing. You will learn how the simplified component model of Java EE can be applied to testable development.

.NET Debugging Tools

November 3, 2011 0

Many developers are not aware of all of the debugging features in Visual Studio, because debugging in Visual Studio “just works.” This article provides an overview of debugging features of Visual Studio that are often ignored by developers like actions in the Breakpoints window or data visualizers. It also discusses external tools and third-party tools you can add to your debugging toolkit.

Android WebDriver Introduction

October 28, 2011 0

In this blog post, Dounia Berrada provides an introduction on how to use Selenium WebDriver with Android. Selenium WebDriver is an open source software testing tool that is now available as an extra in the Android SDK. The post explains how to write a basic test with WebDriver to test an Android application.