Unit Testing from the Trenches
In this blog post, Sylvain Francois explores the differences between the best practices coming from “ivory towers” and reality of daily projects for unit testing.
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Functional Tests with Selenium and cargo-maven-plugin
In this short presentation, Valdemar Júnior shows how he uses Selenium 2.0 and Webdriver to execute integration tests in the maven life cycle with cargo-maven-plugin.
Testing Databases with JUnit and Hibernate
This blog post discusses the problem of testing the database code. It describes some of the problems and proposes possible partial solutions to this testing issue based on Hibernate and JUnit.
Building Custom Test Frameworks
This blog post presents the pitfalls of building custom test tools.
WCF Service Testing with Sockets
The socket-based approach is flexible and very useful for security and performance testing of WCF services. This article shows you how to test a WCF service using a network socket based approach.
Software Testing is Exploratory
In his blog post ‘”Exploratory Testing” is a pleonasm ‘, Aaron Hodder explains that there is no “exploratory testing” and “other testing”. All testing is exploratory. If it’s not exploratory, it’s not testing.
Lessons Learned from Testability Failures
When the testability level of a project is not monitored, it can end up becoming a burden for the team. These testability problems usually add up in small steps, making them hard to detect if we do not make the effort to look for them.