Transition to Agile Testing
This article discusses the traditional software testing aspects that should be changed before adopting Agile practices. Testing teams face a significant impediment when they have to unlearn the traditional practices.
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Software Testing Articles: Load Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Agile Testing, DevOps
Guidelines for Java Testable Design
Issues with testability in Java boil down to our inability to write tests or the excess trouble we have to go through to get it done. In this article, based on chapter 7 of the book “Effective Unit Testing – A guide for Java developers”, Lasse Koskela shares a set of dos and don’ts for testable design. In the tips provided, he recommends to avoid complex private methods, static methods, logic in constructors and to favor composition over inheritance.
Do Unit Tests FIRST
Unit tests are useful and effective if you remember to make them FIRST. FIRST is an acronym for Fast, Isolated, Repeatable, Self-Verifying and Timely. Each of this points is discussed in the article with examples. The most important thing about unit tests is that they be useful and effective for your programming team. The FIRST mnemonic is a simple mechanism to guide you there.
Extend Rational Functional Tester with FlexMonkium
The FlexMonkium tools provide a consistent Flex application GUI object recognition solution with strong support for the constant Flash plug-in updates. With FlexMonkium, Flex recording and playback is seamlessly interleaved with native Selenium recording and playback. This article provides step-by-step instructions to make Rational Functional Tester works in combination with Selenium and FlexMonkium.
Test Automation Anecdotes
Software testing practitioners, managers and consultants provides in this article illuminating, educational and funny anecdotes about their experiences with test automation. The key points of each story are put in evidence.
Using Pex and Moles to Generate Unit Tests for WCF Service Calls
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.
Reducing Rails Testing Time
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.