Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
This article discusses how to build a portfolio of scenarios for load testing automation. You have rarely only a single scenario to test, so you have to decide which scenarios to include in your test plans. Criticality, frequency, difficulty and verifiability are the four key factors that should be considered to determine the scenarios to automate.
In this blog post, Roger Hughes explains how SureAssert, an integrated Java unit testing tool for Eclipse, can help solving the problem of having to change your Java unit tests when you change part of your code. You use annotations to define a set of tests for each of your class’s methods instead of writing unit tests. SureAssert automatically checks the annotations, generate and run unit tests.
In this blog post James Bach explains the paired exploratory survey technique for software testing. A paired exploratory survey is a process where two testers confront one product at the same time for the purpose of learning a product, preparing for formal testing and/or characterizing its quality as rapidly as possible
Many developers think that testing Java EE applications is hard, inconvenient or too complex. This has not been true since the inception of Java EE 5 more than five years ago. This article explore how to do efficiently unit testing for Java EE applications.
This blog post explains how to use Specflow, Moq and Microsoft Unit Testing framework to implement Behavior Driven Development in a .NET context. The author used AAA (Arrange-Act-Assert) and GWT (Given-When-Then) patterns in his code. They are clearly and easily to understand and become standard when you write unit testing and mocking.
In this blog post Sebastians Lutzky start a series of posts that will explain the concept of unit testing in the context of design by contract.
In this blog post, David Tobey shares with us how he used the open source load testing tool JMeter for functional testing. JMeter allows him to automate part of the functional testing process, making it more reliable and less time-consuming.