How Many Test Cases?
Can you use the number of test cases as a metric? In this blog post, James Christie discusses this topic and the usefulness of counting test cases.
Blogs
Software Testing Blogs: Load Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing
Python Unit Testing with pyVows
PyVows is an open source tools that provides asynchronous behaviour driven development for Python. PyVows allows executing the unit tests in parallel when it makes sense, and sequentially when there are dependencies.
Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit
In an exploration of the best tools to perform unit testing on JavaScript code, Matthew Setter explores how QUnit can perform this task. QUnit is an open source JavaScript unit testing framework that is used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code.
Unit Testing for the .NET Micro Framework
The .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) is an open source .NET platform for resource-constrained devices. It supports development in C#, Visual Basic .NET, and debugging (in an emulator or on hardware) using Microsoft Visual Studio. In this blog post, Mark Nichols explains how to perform unit testing for the .NET Micro Framework.
T-Shaped Software Testers
Many organizations are currently using an Agile approach to software development. In this context, small teams are recommended with an emphasis on collaboration between team members and cross-functional people. In this blog post, Rob Lambert discusses the actual skills of software testers and how they go beyond software testing, producing what is call a “t-shaped tester”.
Software Tests as Documentation
Writing and keeping up to date documentation in software development projects has always been a problem. In this blog post, Jim Bird discusses the idea of using automated tests to document a software system. He also ask the questions: what do tests document? who will find this documentation useful?
Misconceptions About Software Testing
Answering an article saying that you cannot use exploratory testing in Agile, Huib Schoots tries to explain what exploratory testing is and why it is suitable to perform this activity in an Agile context.