Software Testing Training Survey
A recent Methods & Tools poll asked the following question: “How many weeks of training on software testing have you completed in your professional life?”
January 2012
Acceptance Software Testing with Robot and Chef
This blog post give a detailed code on how to distribute Robot automated acceptance tests to several virtual box instances using Chef. Pavlo Baron explains how using Vagrant and VirtualBox as a poor’s man virtualization and wiring with Chef, you can run in parallel your acceptance testing suite in a distributed environment.
4 Steps to Faster Ruby on Rails Tests
This video explains how to use the principles of Object Oriented Design to improve your Ruby on Rails code, supercharge your tests and find your coding rhythm.
Unit Testing Myths and Practices
Why so few organizations maintain unit tests for their in-house applications? This article discusses the two assertions that unit testing saves money by discovering bugs earlier and that it reduces the number of bug in the application. Despites the provocative title, the article provides some evidence that unit testing can play a critical role to help delivering applications. Its goal is to challenge the premise that writing unit tests is always a wise practice in all contexts. The conclusion is that you can not rely on a general acceptance of the myth that unit testing is a universal panacea, but you need to focus unit testing on aspects of development where it is most effective and be prepared to actively justify its use.
Testing a Java EE Container with Mockito and Arquillian
The testing strategy to adopt when you you run your code inside a Java EE container is the topic discussed in this blog post by Antonio Goncalves. To solve this issue, he presents a detailed step by step process to unit test an EJB with Mockito and how to do integration test with and without Arquillian with code samples. His conclusion is that since Java EE 6 it is now easy to use container and services in an embedded mode. Unit testing is good to test business code or code in isolation (mocking external components) but you have to remember that you should also use integration testing to test code interacting with external components or services.
Extreme Unit Testing
eXtreme programming is an Agile software development methodologies. It involves extremely short incremental release cycles, early and frequent testing, heavy use of design refactoring, and pair programming. This article proposes a process model called “ordered incremental testing” where guidance on test order is provided. Testing is conducted iteratively with very short iteration cycles as a single class is developed. Although early and frequent testing is very important, there is little guidance about specifics of the testing process.
Unit Testing on iOS
This video presents the basics for getting OCUnit/SenTest set up on new and existing projects, including running those tests from the command line. For the fans of Rspec style specs, it presents briefly Kiwi, which wraps the built in testing framework with a block-based syntax.