Software Testing Articles: Load Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Agile Testing, DevOps
Current automated software testing (AST) tools and solutions are still riddled with numerous challenges. This article by Elfriede Dustin discusses the challenges involved in developing a custom automated software testing (AST) framework and provides some tips on how to address such challenges. It summarizes the author’s experience as part of the team that developed the Automated Test and Re-Test (ATRT) tool, now in use throughout Navy programs. Within this article you’ll find automated testing hints that can be useful nuggets as part of any automated testing effort.
Adobe® Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool, currently in a preview release, that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices.
This article shares thoughts, experiences, and some of the critical lessons learned while implementing software test automation on a recent Agile project. Although it took them quite some time to reach their current status, it’s been well worth the investment and the efforts are paying off in big way. The team is now able to build, integrate, test and deploy their application software with production-like quality in a production-like environment every single day.
Evan Farrer to test the frequently cited claim by proponents of dynamically typed programming languages that static typing was not needed for detecting bugs in programs. In his blog post, he explains why unit testing isn’t enough and you need static typing too.
This article shows how concepts and axioms can be expressed in standard C++ 2011, and explore Axiom-based testing is a technique for testing generic code in a generic way, based on algebraic specification. This article explores how you can specify graph transformation-based rules for a classical problem of transforming from UML sequence diagrams to state machines. The specification of the transformation rules is based on the concrete syntax of sequence diagrams and state machines. It introduces tailored transformation support for sequence diagrams and a novel graphical operator to match and transform combined fragments.
Program understanding is a major obstacle during program maintenance. In an object-oriented language, understanding an operation requires understanding its type and its effect on the object network. The effect is particularly important for scripting languages where there is neither class structure that restricts the shape of an object nor any other kind of access control. We have designed and implemented JSConTest. JSContest is a tool that enhances JavaScript with simple, type-like contracts and provides a framework for monitoring and guided random testing of programs against these contracts at the same time.
Visual Studio allows you to create automated tests of the user interface (UI) known as coded UI tests. These tests provide functional testing of the UI and validation of UI controls. This article provides test automation guidance that helps you leverage the coded UI features of Visual Studio 2010 to foster a continuous, consistent and standard automation approach. Such an approach allows you to build, deploy and test, taking advantage of Visual Studio Lab Management features, which let automation testers reap the benefits of integrating with the build process for automatic build deployment, executing on VMs and reporting test automation results as part of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). The article provides also a list of Do’s and Don’ts of UI automation. UI automation can be a tricky business. To help you get the best results, follow the advice, guidance and best practices for writing coded UI tests in the following Do and Don’t lists.
