Pushing the Boundaries of Test Automation
This blog post presents some results of an exploration of software testing tools to discover various types of potential user interface issues even for complex applications.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) Code Metric
In this blog post, Alberto Savoia discusses the CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) code metric. The CRAP metric combines cyclomatic complexity and code coverage by automated tests to help identify code that might be particularly difficult to understand, test or maintain.
Making Test Driven Development Work: Test Readability
This article provides 3 tips to create readable unit tests.
How to Write Testable Code
This post tries to summarize the high level basics of writing testable code.
A Set of Unit Testing Rules
A test is not a unit test if: * It talks to the database * It communicates across the network * It touches the file system * It can’t run at the same time as any of your other unit tests * You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it.
Your automated acceptance tests needn’t be written in the same language as your system being tested
In this blog post, Alister Scott explains why it might be better to write acceptance tests in a different language than your code.
Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
This article covers several ways in which automated tests can help identify usability problems and limitations in Web-based applications, where fixing them makes the software more usable and/or accessible.