The 10 Minute Test Plan
In this blog post, James Whittaker explains how he decreased the time needed to create test plans by splitting the allowed time to produce them in 10 minutes slices.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
Exploratory Testing: Finding the Music of Software Investigation
As a software testing consultant and musician, I meet a lot of skilled testers who do amazing work. Through experience and a lot of trial and error, they have developed skills they can’t easily explain. Unfortunately, with software testing, there aren’t as many obvious avenues for skill development as there are for musicians. Many software testers don’t realize that there are learnable exploratory testing skills they can develop to help them become even more valuable to software development teams.
Scenarios for Load Testing
This article discusses how to build a portfolio of scenarios for load testing automation. You have rarely only a single scenario to test, so you have to decide which scenarios to include in your test plans. Criticality, frequency, difficulty and verifiability are the four key factors that should be considered to determine the scenarios to automate.
Declarative Unit Testing in Java
In this blog post, Roger Hughes explains how SureAssert, an integrated Java unit testing tool for Eclipse, can help solving the problem of having to change your Java unit tests when you change part of your code. You use annotations to define a set of tests for each of your class’s methods instead of writing unit tests. SureAssert automatically checks the annotations, generate and run unit tests.
Paired Exploratory Survey
In this blog post James Bach explains the paired exploratory survey technique for software testing. A paired exploratory survey is a process where two testers confront one product at the same time for the purpose of learning a product, preparing for formal testing and/or characterizing its quality as rapidly as possible
Unit Testing for Java EE
Many developers think that testing Java EE applications is hard, inconvenient or too complex. This has not been true since the inception of Java EE 5 more than five years ago. This article explore how to do efficiently unit testing for Java EE applications.
BDD with Specflow, Moq and Microsoft Unit Testing framework
This blog post explains how to use Specflow, Moq and Microsoft Unit Testing framework to implement Behavior Driven Development in a .NET context. The author used AAA (Arrange-Act-Assert) and GWT (Given-When-Then) patterns in his code. They are clearly and easily to understand and become standard when you write unit testing and mocking.