Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business
This post discusses about the fact that software testers don’t have responsibility for software quality any more than anyone else in the development team. Everyone has that responsibility.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
Test-Driven Design, Part 1
Most developers think that the most beneficial part of using test-driven development (TDD) are the tests. But, when done right, TDD improves the overall design of your code. This installment in the Evolutionary architecture and emergent design series walks through an extended example showing how design can emerge from the concerns that float up from testing. Testing is only a side effect of TDD; the important part is how it changes your code for the better.
How to Implement UI Testing
This post presents good practice for efficient UI test automation.
Writing Testable Code
The article “Writing Testable Code” presents practices to write more testable code with many examples in java, going a step further than just TDD.
Who Perform Functional Testing?
After the results of a previous poll focused on functional testing automation, I wondered if there was still a great divide between the worlds of development and functional testing. So I did this follow-up question to check who was performing the functional testing.
The Three Rules of Test Driven Development
Over the years I have come to describe Test Driven Development in terms of three simple rules.
Load Testing Relational Databases With JMeter
Apache JMeter is a performance testing tool which is entirely written in Java. Any application that works on request/response model can be load tested with JMeter. A relational database is not an exception: receives sql queries, executes them and returns the results of the execution. This post shows you how easy it is to set up test scenarios with the graphical user interface of JMeter.