Software Testing Magazine

Inspect/Debug your Mobile Code with Adobe Shadow

August 28, 2012 0

Adobe Shadow is a new tool currently developed by Adobe that provides developers a way to inspect and debug from their desktops wirelessly and synchronously across multiple devices. The Adobe Shadow desktop application listens for changes in a URL location in the browser. When a change occurs, it pushes the new URL out to all wirelessly connected devices immediately so the changed content is seen on the devices immediately. In this blog post, Holly Schinsky provides step-by-step instructions on how to use Adobe Shadow to inspect and debug your mobile code.

Automated Test-Driven Development with PHP

August 27, 2012 0

There are solutions which provide the ability to automatically run your tests as you code. This tutorial shows how to use a Ruby gem, called watchr to monitor your code and automatically run the appropriate tests whenever you save your work. This is how you can automated Test-Driven Development (TDD) on your PHP code. The watchr gem is an executable program written in Ruby, and it wraps around features found in an operating system’s file system to provide the ability to watch for changes made to a specific file or folder. The tutorial provides a step by step approach on how to use it and integrate it in your PHP coding activities.

New Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing Experience

August 22, 2012 0

The new Visual Studio 2012 tries to improve the developer unit testing experience, particularly for agile teams. The entire unit testing framework has been made extensible, which will allow you to use testing frameworks such as xUnit.net and NUnit in addition to the unit testing framework built into Visual Studio. This talk presents the history of unit testing in Visual Studio and then takes you through the product, showing off the new unit testing features.

Starting Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)

August 21, 2012 0

You might want to begin by choosing the tool you want to use when you want to introduce ATDD to a project or client. In this article, Markus Gaertner says that this doesn’t work and shares his advice on how to overcome the biggest mistakes from the beginning when you get started with ATDD. He recommends to start with an example. Working together, the team identifies a case that would derive the greatest benefit from being automated. You should define the right approach first, the right people second, the right format third. The format we choose will limit the choice of the tool, but the tool itself should be our last consideration. Instead of thinking about the tool, we should work for clarity in how we write down our examples. All the successful teams he has worked with on ATDD shared one thing: they started with one approach, and they reflected on it regularly. During those retrospectives, they came up with necessary improvements if the approach stopped working for them. If you keep this practice in mind, you can essentially start with any approach.

Unit Testing MySQL with utMySQL

August 20, 2012 0

This blog post explains how to perform unit testing of MySQL stored procedures. A stored routine is a set of SQL statements that can be stored in the server. Once this has been done, clients don’t need to keep reissuing the individual statements but can refer to the stored routine instead. To perform unit testing on stored procedures, you can use utMySQL, an open source unit test framework for MySQL stored procedures. This post provides a step by step process on how to create the test code in utMySQL which is also a stored procedure, run it and verify the results.

Spring MVC Views Unit Testing

August 15, 2012 0

This blog post by Stuart Gunter shares some best practices to perform unit testing on Spring MVC views. The concept follows a BDD style to write unit tests that leverages the MVC pattern in much the same way as the real application, but exploits the power of standard unit testing practices like mocking, assertions and verification. This is achieved with the open source software testing tool TestNG and using the infrastructure provided by Spring through its integration testing features in order to execute the unit test. The post shows the code, also available on GitHub, used to do this. It also explains the design decisions that supports this approach.

Integrating Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio Build

August 13, 2012 0

This is a series of three posts by Nick Olson about the topic of unit testing your code your when you are writing a javascript client application with a .NET backend. The first post is an introduction that defines the context and presents the tools that will be used. The second post provides the code to test the javascript using KnockoutJS and Qunit. The third post explains how see the javascript unit tests results when you are inside Visual Studio. This is achieved using a browser automation tool walled Watin and a data-driven unit test in C#.

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