Tutorials and resources on how to apply test automation in software testing
This talk demonstrates to participants how they can use HTTP request libraries and WebDriver in harmony. A common pattern that Automator’s fall into is trying to execute every action of a test via the UI, from logging in, creating required data, navigating to that specific data and then running assertions on it before logging out. This can lead to tests that are slow to run and likely to break due to the reliance on many Web elements.
Software testing doesn’t stop when your website is live and monitoring your website uptime or response time is a key aspect of software quality assurance. If your website is slow or down, it means you are losing clients: with no access to your pages, how are they supposed to use your services and contact you?
Software testing is today a crucial part of software development, but if it comes to good programming practices a lot of teams have some issues to create sustainable and maintainable tests. Learning the usage of a testing tool is often not enough for writing those. It is also necessary to create a framework which abstracts the different concerns.
Spock is a Groovy-based open source testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications that makes writing tests fun again. We can write beautiful and highly expressive tests for Java applications because of its domain-specific language (DSL) and all the power that Groovy provides us.
Even in the era of cloud computing when you can scale your infrastructure more easily, building and managing a software that can scale and support a large number of users is more than just putting more powerful hardware. In this article, Dmitro Kosenko discusses the main principles behind load testing and proposes a step by step process to perform load testing using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Service.
Gherkin is the language that many Behavior-Driven Development open source software testing tools like Cucumber or Behat use to define test cases. Gherkin is designed to be non-technical and human readable, and collectively describes use cases relating to a software system.
Part of the .NET Foundation, xUnit.net is an open source unit testing tool for the .NET Framework (C#, F#, VB.NET, etc). xUnit.net works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.
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