Tutorials and resources on how to apply unit testing in software testing
This is a series of three posts by Nick Olson about the topic of unit testing your code your when you are writing a javascript client application with a .NET backend. The first post is an introduction that defines the context and presents the tools that will be used. The second post provides the code to test the javascript using KnockoutJS and Qunit. The third post explains how see the javascript unit tests results when you are inside Visual Studio. This is achieved using a browser automation tool walled Watin and a data-driven unit test in C#.
PL/SQL is an Oracle’s procedural extension to SQL that allow to code the stored procedures in Oracle database. In this blog post, Nick Giles explains how he uses DbUnit to perform unit testing tor the stored procedures in Oracle. DbUnit is a JUnit extension (also usable with Ant) targeted at database-driven projects that, among other things, puts your database into a known state between test runs. In his solution Initial data and the expected output state of the tables containing the aggregated values are specified separately in two simple XML files. These are then referenced in a test method in a Java class along with the command to run the pre-calculation stored procedure. It worked so well that he could adopt a Test-Driven Development approach for his project.
Evan Farrer to test the frequently cited claim by proponents of dynamically typed programming languages that static typing was not needed for detecting bugs in programs. In his blog post, he explains why unit testing isn’t enough and you need static typing too.
This article shows how concepts and axioms can be expressed in standard C++ 2011, and explore Axiom-based testing is a technique for testing generic code in a generic way, based on algebraic specification. This article explores how you can specify graph transformation-based rules for a classical problem of transforming from UML sequence diagrams to state machines. The specification of the transformation rules is based on the concrete syntax of sequence diagrams and state machines. It introduces tailored transformation support for sequence diagrams and a novel graphical operator to match and transform combined fragments.
This article explores how to use QUnit And SinonJS to perform unit testing on Backbone.js applications. QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use, JavaScript test suite. It’s used by the jQuery project to test its code and plugins but is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code (and even capable of testing JavaScript code on the server-side). SinonJS is a standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. It has no dependencies and works with any unit testing framework like QUnit.
This guide presents the mechanisms available to test your Ruby on Rails application. After an introduction to software testing in the Ruby on Rails context, the guide explains how to perform unit testing on your models and functional testing for the controllers. The guide also explains how Rails provides a generator to create an integration test skeleton. At the end, the guide proposes other popular testing approaches and plugins that could be used to test Ruby on Rails applications.
Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito is a book that is intended especially for those who would like to start unit testing their code, but are unsure about how to get started and what to focus on. It presents the unit testing domain with examples in the Java language using the TestNG and Mockito open source tools.
