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EVM is a simple quantitative technique that can be used to measure the schedule progress of any type of project, including a software-testing effort or some part of the overall effort. This article eplains what EVM is and walks you through an example of using EVM to measure software testing effort progress. It also describes when to use EVM and when not to use it.
Selenium is a great tool for acceptance testing of web applications: it works with real browsers, and drives them to exercise your application of choice in the same way a real user would do. There are however many issues in using Selenium to drive JavaScript-powered applications.
This article presents GivWenZen. GivWenZen allows a user to use the BDD Given When Then vocabulary and plain text sentences to help a team get the words right and create a ubiquitous language to describe and test a business domain.
In this blog posts, Lanette Creamer discusses the basic parts of all software testing activities, being exploratory testing or requirements testing.
Martin Fowler discusses the problem of non-deterministic tests – tests that sometimes pass and sometimes fail. Non-deterministic tests can completely destroy the value of an automated regression suite. This article outlines how to deal with them and presents treatments for the common causes for non-determinism: lack of isolation, asynchronous behavior, remote services, time, and resource leaks.
This blog post discusses the limits of automated software testing.
In the episode 167 of the Software Engineering Radio, Kent Beck discusses about this tiny little thing he created many years ago and that has changed the daily work of many many programmers in the world: automated unit testing and JUnit.
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