Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
When you need to perform unit testing in an independent way, you use mock objects. Mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. In this excerpt of their book “Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit”, Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas and Matt Hargett explain how to avoid coupling when you build your C# unit tests.
PHPUnit is an open source unit testing software framework for software written in the PHP programming language. Created by Sebastian Bergmann, PHPUnit is one of the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck’s SUnit. This article will explore PHPUnit specifically as a way to introduce the basics of automated unit testing. You’ll need a basic grasp of the PHP programming language to proceed!
Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is defined as doing in the same activity application learning, test cases and test design and execution. In this article, Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark propose to perform exploratory testing using a storytelling game format. This is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story.
The purpose of the article is to implement a Behavior Driver Development (BDD) infrastructure for Android applications with the JBehave open source BDD tool and Robotium open source Android testing software. We will go through complete architectural understandings and try to set-up the framework.
What is the difference between “Test First” software development and “Test Driven Development (TDD)”? In this blog post, Daniel Lindner provides his opinion about this topic and discusses his issues with Test Driven Development and how he thought he could train to apply it properly.
Now that a lot of software applications are directly visible from customers and that a failure has broader consequences, load testing has gained an increase importance in the software testing domain. In this Phd thesis, Zhen Ming Jiang propose an approache for the automated and systematic analysis of load testing logs.
When discussing TDD with my friends and coworkers, often heatedly, an interesting pattern has appeared. All of the arguments about expensive refactoring and the need for up-front design are never really challenged. Instead, what has always been the final refuge for those arguing for TDD is that it makes development fun again.