WCF Service Testing with Sockets
The socket-based approach is flexible and very useful for security and performance testing of WCF services. This article shows you how to test a WCF service using a network socket based approach.
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Software Testing Articles: Load Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Agile Testing, DevOps
Unit Testing in Java: Broad Assertion
Broad assertion cuts out too large a chunk of output and side effects for bit-to-bit comparison, which makes it harmful due to the resulting brittleness. The assertion fails if any small detail changes, regardless of whether that change is relevant to the interests of this particular test. In this article, based on chapter 4 of Unit Testing in Java, author Lasse Koskela explains how to refactor the tests that suffer from broad assertion.
Making Test Driven Development Work: Test Readability
This article provides 3 tips to create readable unit tests.
Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
This article covers several ways in which automated tests can help identify usability problems and limitations in Web-based applications, where fixing them makes the software more usable and/or accessible.
Performance Testing Guide for Web Applications
This part of Microsoft’s patterns and practices material discusses the key concepts of load testing and allow you to learn how to load-test a Web application.
Why Use Test Driven Development
In this article, Amy Blankenship lists the benefits she has seen from using Test Driven Development (TDD).
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.