Month: February 2013

Testing JSF Applications with Arquillian and Selenium

February 28, 2013 0

Learn how to perform functional testing on JSF applications with Arquillian and Selenium. In modern development environments, it’s a must to include testing of Web applications as a standard part of the development lifecycle. Such tests can also be used as acceptance criteria in enterprise projects. Although full automation is possible, it is considered to be very expensive. As a result, in projects where testing is included as part of the project plan, it is also often the first requirement cut when the project schedule begins to slip.

SQL Server Unit Testing

February 25, 2013 0

The SQL Server unit tests feature have been added in the December 2012 update of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). This article presents a detailed information on how to create an run unit tests in SQL Server.

Selenium Continuous Integration Setup

February 22, 2013 0

Daniel Wagner-Hall set up and maintains the continuous integration server for the Selenium project; every check in runs several hundred tests in 30+ browser/version/OS combinations, totaling 3.5 days of tests every day!

Node.js Functional Testing with Mocha

February 18, 2013 0

In this blog post, Francois Zaninotto provides an detailed explanation on how to do functional testing for Node.js using the Mocha open source software testing framework. Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.

Software Testing Strategy Introduction

February 14, 2013 1

Learn how to improve your software testing strategies, with theoretical ideas, practical tips and examples. A good test strategy drives your testing effort towards the testing mission, and is specific, anchored, pragmatic, effective and possible to change.

Real-time Software Quality Assurance

February 13, 2013 0

How do you perform software testing in a continuous deployment environment where you have more than 10 releases a day? How can you be confident that the code running in production is still reliable? In this blog post, Andy Hume explains the software quality process the Guardian uses for continuous deployment mode.

Essential Agile Software Testing Skills

February 11, 2013 0

A Reflection on Up-Front Testing As we were saying, up-front testing really isn’t testing at all. It is really up-front design through the analysis of our tests. Can we take this testing even further? When XP came out and suggested doing unit tests, many of us realized that if we combined a series of unit tests together, we could get the equivalent of automated acceptance testing.