Software Testing Magazine

Automated Testing on the Cloud

September 22, 2011 0

As cloud computing dives deeply into its latest trend, the proliferation of instances of mobile device access, testing the explosive numbers of new applications could be an obstacle to speedy deployment. Automated testing on the cloud is the answer to that roadblock. This article discusses how to add grid computing and peer-to-peer collaboration functionality to make automated testing on the cloud more effective. It also provides an example of a real-world system and scenario.

Functional Testing with Arquillian

September 21, 2011 0

This article explains how to use Arquillian to test a web UI of the application you are building. The mission of the Arquillian project is to provide a simple test harness that abstracts away all container lifecycle and deployment from the test logic so developers can easily produce a broad range of integration tests for their enterprise Java applications. This article exercises the following tools: Arquillian, Arquillian Drone, ShrinkWrap Maven Resolver and Selenium.

Acceptance Test Engineering Guide

September 20, 2011 0

Acceptance Testing is defined as the planned evaluation of a system by customers to assess to what degree it satisfies their expectations. The Acceptance Test Engineering Guide provides guidance for technology stakeholders (developers, development leads, testers, test leads, architects, etc.) and business stakeholders (managers, customers, end users, etc) on the discipline of acceptance testing.

Unit Testing Web Applications

September 20, 2011 0

Unit testing focuses on testing small pieces of code that a developer is writing. This article shows how to get started unit testing JavaScript as well as server-side code.

Automated Testing and Software Technical Risk Assessments

September 20, 2011 0

Testing continues to represent the single largest cost associated with the development of sophisticated, software intensive, military systems. A reduction in overall testing cost will save billions of dollars over the lifecycle of tactical software systems. Such savings can only be achieved if the concept of testing begins very early in the development process, improving synergy throughout the development and testing communities.

Automated UI Testing with the qooxdoo Simulator

September 14, 2011 0

This article explores qooxdoo’s built-in facilities for automated UI testing. qooxdoo is a universal JavaScript framework that enables you to create applications for a wide range of platforms. With its object-oriented programming model you build rich, interactive applications (RIAs), native-like apps for mobile devices, light-weight traditional web applications or even applications to run outside the browser.

The 10 Minute Test Plan

September 6, 2011 0

In this blog post, James Whittaker explains how he decreased the time needed to create test plans by splitting the allowed time to produce them in 10 minutes slices.