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Rspec is a great tool in the behavior driven design process of writing human readable specifications that direct and validate the development of your application. Follow these practices to write elegant and maintainable specifications.
Keyword Driven Testing is the next generation test automation approach that separates the task of automated test case implementation from the automation infrastructure.
“Metrics for Implementing Automated Software Testing” presents metrics that you can use to manage the transition towards automation of software tests.
This post about exploratory testing and review discusses the misapprehension that the advocates of exploratory testing suggest that review or other forms of testing should be dropped.
Defects are not so much a technological as a sociological problem. So the measures we take to control them can be expected to lie largely in the sociological plane, affecting the structure and organization of projects, the allocation of goals, and the fostering of new attitudes. Tom DeMarco, “Controlling Software Projects”, Yourdon Press
Selenium is a testing framework used for automated Web application testing. Get to know Selenium Remote Control (Selenium RC), which allows you to build tests for different browsers to ensure your Web applications are of the highest quality.
System tests have the reputation of being slow (not entirely avoidable, I admit), difficult to automate reliably and difficult to diagnose when they fail. However, I find that many teams follow a TDD process at the unit-level, but do post-hoc testing at the system level, and so don’t use system tests as a source of design feedback. This blog post shows how you should do TDD at the system scale.
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