Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Beyond

March 24, 2016 0

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a game changer for developers, but Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a game changer for the whole team. More than just a testing technique, BDD is both a collaboration and a verification tool—and a vital step on the road to continuous delivery.

Software Testing Standards: Promoting Quality or Restricting Competition?

March 16, 2016 0

James Christie argues that software testing standards are produced by bodies with a commercial interest in seeing them adopted. He analyses the economic forces behind the creation of standards. They should be viewed as optional methods that companies can buy or reject as they see fit. Selling them as standards distorts the market by creating the impression amongst senior managers, lawyers and regulators that there is no valid, responsible alternative.

Introduction to Docker Selenium

March 8, 2016 0

The docker-selenium project is about packaging selenium grid as Docker containers https://github.com/seleniumhq/docker-selenium. To me this means I don’t have to build any selenium infrastructure machines. I just run the provided images by docker-selenium project.

Introduction to Model-Based Testing

March 7, 2016 0

Model-based testing (MBT)is defined as the automated generation of software testing procedures based models of system requirements and behavior. In this article, Sergio Mera and Yiming Cao provides an introduction to model-based testing and explains how to implement it with Spec Explorer, an free tool that extends Visual Studio.

Large-Scale Automated Visual Testing

March 3, 2016 0

Automated visual testing is a major emerging trend in the dev / test community. Learn what visual testing is and why it should be automated. We will take a deep dive into some of the technological challenges involved with visual test automation and show how modern tools address them. We will demo cutting edge technologies that enable running cross browser and cross device visual tests, and provide key tips for succeeding with large scale visual testing.

Crafting a Mobile Software Testing Strategy

March 2, 2016 3

In a perfect software development world, you have all the time and the resources available to test every aspect of your mobile apps. In reality, the time and resources for software testing are limited. In his book “Tap Into Mobile Application Testing“, Jonathan Kohl discusses how to define a strategy for mobile testing projects.