Why Use Test Driven Development
In this article, Amy Blankenship lists the benefits she has seen from using Test Driven Development (TDD).
Articles by Software Testing Magazine
Google Testing New Year Resolutions
James Whittaker posted these very good New Year resolutions on Google Testing blog: 1. I will listen to users more and developers less. 2. I will push all implementation testing issues to developers. 3. I will endeavor to tie together all user-oriented testing.
Making Too Much of TDD
This blog post discusses how a Test-Driven Development approach can coexist with good design requirements when a system wants to evolve. Can we just refactor or do we need to think more about design in the first place? Evolution of code and design could depend on the programming language and design granularity.
Testing Dojos
Programmers use Coding Dojos to exercise their programming skills in a group setup. Deliberately they get together to pair program and get feedback from peers. But how do testers train their skills? Testing Dojos provide a similar setup as Coding Dojos, but help testers to practice their individual skills in a group. This web site is a reference for everything about Testing Dojos. http://www.testingdojo.org/
A Day in the Life of an Acceptance Tester
An interesting posts about how a tester collaborate with the product owner in an agile team to define the acceptance tests.
Teaching Programmers to Test
“Would you trust a programmer to test your application? It’s like asking a Fox to guard the chicken-house, right?” This is the beginning of this post that deals with the issue of having programmers testing their own code.
Automated Web Testing with Selenium
Selenium is an open source project with no formal guidance, making problem investigation time-intensive for testers. This article provides best practices for common issues during testing based on Selenium 1.0, which was released in June 2009.