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.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
Specialization Still Prevails in Functional Testing
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
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
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.
Web Testing with Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber
This article from Alan Bowers and James Bell provides an introduction to setting up a software testing infrastructure using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber. It shows how to create a test suite for single-page web applications and to run tests across multiple web and mobile browsers via Selenium Grid.
Transition to Agile Testing – Part 1 Getting Started
Testing during the transition to Agile, particularly if you’re moving from a classic waterfall system, often means throwing out every expectation you have about how a project will be run, how long you’ll have to prep or test a drop, and when new code will arrive.
AngularJS Unit Testing Best Practices
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework, maintained by Google, that assists with running single-page applications. This article written by Andy Shora discusses best practices to peform unit testing and integration testing with AngularJS.