SST or Selenium Simple Test is an open source web test framework that uses Python to generate functional browser-based tests. The tests are made up of scripts, created by composing actions that drive a browser and assert conditions. You enjoy the flexibility of the full Python language, along with a convenient set of functions to simplify web testing, but the commands are simple and flexible enough that the tool can also be used by non-programmers.
In this blog post, Jens Schauder shares some tips based on experience to improve the testing of database code. People seem to understand the need to test their code, but apparently this is not yet the case for the the database code, because database tests tend to be slow, interdependent and hard to maintain
A recent Methods & Tools poll asked the following question: “How many weeks of training on software testing have you completed in your professional life?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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