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Designing for Testability

Posted by Cedric Beust and Alexandru Popescu on Feb 28, 2008 09:00 AM

Community
Java
Topics
Software Testing,
Unit Testing
Tags
QCon San Francisco 2007,
TDD,
TestNG,
QCon
Summary
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco, Cedric Beust and Alexandru Popescu discuss interesting features of TestNG such as grouping of tests, data providers for tests and dependency handling in tests, tips for designing easily testable code such as eliminating statics, extreme encapsulation and TDD, the importance of functional versus unit testing, and migrating from JUnit to TestNG.

Bio
Cédric Beust is the co-founder of the TestNG framewwork, is a senior software engineer at Google, and holds a PhD in computer science. Alexandru Popescu is Chief-Architect of InfoQ.com, and is co-founder of the TestNG Framework and a committer on the WebWork and Magnolia projects.

About the conference
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I can't see any thing in video :( by stone shao Posted Mar 1, 2008 12:36 AM
Re: I can't see any thing in video :( by Floyd Marinescu Posted Mar 2, 2008 3:07 PM
Re: I can't see any thing in video :( by hugo filho Posted Mar 4, 2008 7:54 AM
Re: I can't see any thing in video :( by CENK CIVICI Posted Mar 7, 2008 6:18 PM
Re: I can't see any thing in video :( by aaron yu Posted Mar 18, 2008 10:09 PM
TESTNG by CENK CIVICI Posted Mar 7, 2008 6:20 PM
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    I can't see any thing in video :(

    Mar 1, 2008 12:36 AM by stone shao

    FYI

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    Re: I can't see any thing in video :(

    Mar 2, 2008 3:07 PM by Floyd Marinescu

    You must disable any plugins that may be blocking flash programs.

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    Re: I can't see any thing in video :(

    Mar 4, 2008 7:54 AM by hugo filho

    There is material in this article?

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    Re: I can't see any thing in video :(

    Mar 7, 2008 6:18 PM by CENK CIVICI

    TDD leads to testable code by thinking tests first. That way you dont mess up code with static couplings, variables etc but Cedric instead talks against TDD and recommends write code first and and then change it to be testable when you start writing your test.

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    TESTNG

    Mar 7, 2008 6:20 PM by CENK CIVICI

    I find TESTNG useful for functional testing tools like tests in the ui level using tools like Selenium where Dependent methods might be useful. But I dont think it is a very bad practice to have dependent tests in isolated focused unit tests.

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    Re: I can't see any thing in video :(

    Mar 18, 2008 10:09 PM by aaron yu

    Yes, something wrong? I can't see it.

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