In this session we review the top 10 ways you can cause unit testing to fail to work for your project. From readability problems and lack of trust to mock object abuse and semi-integration testing – these gotchas can save you lots of time, sweat, and tears on your current and next projects.
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Defects are not so much a technological as a sociological problem. So the measures we take to control them can be expected to lie largely in the sociological plane, affecting the structure and organization of projects, the allocation of goals, and the fostering of new attitudes. Tom DeMarco, “Controlling Software Projects”, Yourdon Press
Selenium is a testing framework used for automated Web application testing. Get to know Selenium Remote Control (Selenium RC), which allows you to build tests for different browsers to ensure your Web applications are of the highest quality.
System tests have the reputation of being slow (not entirely avoidable, I admit), difficult to automate reliably and difficult to diagnose when they fail. However, I find that many teams follow a TDD process at the unit-level, but do post-hoc testing at the system level, and so don’t use system tests as a source of design feedback. This blog post shows how you should do TDD at the system scale.
This book is primarily aimed at .NET developers interested in starting with TDD and those who already practice unit testing and want to move beyond that into development driven by acceptance testing.
This post contains an interesting figure summarizing the test automation adoption curve.
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