Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes

Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes

January 20, 2014 0

Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes is a free e-book that discusses the topic of Microsoft Fakes. Microsoft Fakes is a code isolation framework for Visual Studio that helps you isolate the code for unit testing by replacing other parts of the application with stubs or shims. With Microsoft Fakes you can test parts of your software even if some parts have not been implemented or are not working yet.

Effective Software Developer Attitudes to QA People

January 13, 2014 2

Agile software development approaches encourage a collaborative setting in software development projects. Software developments and software testers and quality assurance people have to create a better context for working together. This article discusses how programmers can improve their relationships with the software quality assurance people.

Understanding Python Unit Testing

January 7, 2014 0

It might seem strange that software developers still have trouble understanding. In this article, Jeff Knupp tries to describe what unit testing is, why it is useful and how you should perform unit testing for Python code.

How Many Test Cases?

December 16, 2013 0

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.

Specialization Still Prevails in Functional Testing

December 11, 2013 0

A recent survey conducted by the Methods & Tools software development magazine asked who was performing the functional testing in the IT department: specialized testers, software developers or end-users. Functional testing looks for differences between the initial end-users’ requirements and their actual implementation in the software application.

Maintainable UI Automated Tests

December 3, 2013 0

Software testing code is like programming code: it can be useful in the long term only if it is maintainable. In this article, Mehdi Khalili shares some tricks on how to build a maintainable suite of automated test cases.

Transition to Agile Testing – Part 2 The New System

November 25, 2013 0

Software testing during the transition to Agile, particularly if you’re moving from a classic waterfall system, is not easy. This part discusses how to perform software testing when you don’t have the classical workflow of documented test cases and bug requests than in a traditional approach.

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