Software Testing Articles: Load Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Agile Testing, DevOps
Js-test-driver is an open source JavaScript unit tests runner written in Java. The project was started at Google and is under active development. This article provides a step by step process on how to JSTestDriver to write tests for Javascript. This article starts with an overview of the tool architecture before explaining its configuration, how to run js-test-driver from the command line and how to run it from Eclipse. The main part shows how to write tests and presents the most important features of js-test-drivers. Debugging of tests in Firefox and Chrome is also discussed.
SOA Web services are now supported by most of major software development companies and industry. To be reliable, these ones require to be developed with respect to a complete software development life cycle and, in particular, they need to be tested. Test purpose-based methods are black box testing techniques which take advantage of reducing the time required for test derivation in comparison with exhaustive methods.
Automated testing is an essential part of Continuous Integration. This article proposes detailed explanation and code on how to use Maven to drive automated acceptance tests performed with Selenium.
This tutorial explores the principles of parameterized unit testing with Microsoft Pex 2010. Microsoft Pex is a Visual Studio add-in for testing .NET Framework applications that automatically generates test suites with high code coverage. Right from the Visual Studio code editor, Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage.
In the context of Java unit testing, a sleeping snail is a test that’s sluggish and takes (relatively speaking) forever to run because it relies on Thread#sleep and arbitrarily long waits to allow threads to execute before performing assertions or continuing with the workflow under test. In this article, based on chapter 5 of Unit Testing in Java, author Lasse Koskela explains this code smell and the appropriate deodorant with an example
Manual testing is a time consuming process. In addition, regression testing, because of its repetitive nature, is error-prone, so automation is highly desirable. Robot Framework is simple, yet powerful and easily extensible tool which utilizes the keyword driven testing approach. Easy to use tabular syntax enables creating test cases in a uniform way. Ability to create reusable high-level keywords from existing keyword ensures easy extensibility and reusability.
This article by Adam Goucher identifies a handful of heuristics that apply to software testing automation. While not an exhaustive set, it is a useful one, and it will put you on the path to identifying and collecting your own set of automation heuristics. Heuristics are used in testing as rules of thumb or prompts for solving a particular problem or class of problems.
