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Cédric Beust discusses Designing for Testability

Community
Java
Topics
Software Testing,
Unit Testing

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Cédric Beust discusses designing and architecting for testability, problems that hinder testability, test-driven development, the "Next Generation Testing" book, performance testing recipes, and testing small, medium and large codebases.

News about TDD

Why Traditional Test-Automation Tools Stifle Agility

Community
Agile
Topics
Software Testing,
Agile Techniques

In recent times, much excitement has circulated about the direction of "next generation functional testing" tools. Alas, many agile organizations still struggle to make their traditional record-and-playback automated testing tools work for them. Elisabeth Hendrickson, aka "test Obsessed", tells them why to stop.

Fixture Gallery, a New Quick Reference For FitNesse How-To

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Quality,
Software Testing,
Agile Techniques

Fixture Gallery is a new open doc cookbook by Gojko Adzic for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework.

Articles about TDD

Iterative, Automated and Continuous Performance

Community
Architecture,
Agile,
Java
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Unit Testing

Iterative and continuous are terms that are often used in reference to testing of software. This new InfoQ article takes a look at whether the same concepts can be applied to performance tuning. Along the way topics such as tooling and mocks are discuss in regards to how they need to be adjusted for performance in respect to testing for functional requirements.

Test Driven Development with Visual Studio for Database Professionals

Community
.NET
Topics
.NET Framework

Developers familiar with Test-Driven Development would like to continue their familiar Red-Green-Refactor cycle even when working with Stored Procedures. Cory Foy shows how to use Visual Studio for Database Professionals and inclusive tools as a framework for performing database unit tests.

Interviews about TDD

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Quality,
Unit Testing,
Agile Techniques

Debate sprang up at JAOO '07 around Bob Martin's assertion that "nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test." In this InfoQ video, he debated with Jim Coplien on this and other topics, including Design by Contract vs. TDD and how much up-front architecture is needed to keep a system consistent with the business domain model.

Dave Astels and Steven Baker on RSpec and Behavior-Driven Development

Community
Agile,
Ruby
Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Agile Techniques

InfoQ interviews Dave Astels and Steven Baker, two of the authors of the successful Rspec framework about enabling Behavior-Driven Development in Ruby, and the implications of moving from a test-centric point of view to one that is more specification-driven.

Presentations about TDD

Automating Business Value with FIT and Fitnesse

Community
Agile
Topics
Software Testing

Agile communities consider stories “done” when the acceptance tests (also called story tests) are shown to the customer. Originally, this was a manual process, but in recent years, several frameworks have been created to automate this process, providing acceptance testing all the benefits of automated unit testing. One of the most popular of these if called FIT, created by Ward Cunningham.

JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
JRuby,
Language

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.

Books about TDD

Agile Patterns: The Technical Cluster

Community
Agile
Topics
Unit Testing,
Software Testing,
Methodologies,
Agile Techniques,
Agile in the Enterprise

This book guides the reader on crafting their own agile adoption strategy focused on their business values and environment. This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted them. Business values are also a component of these patterns so your adoption is always focused on addressing your particular environment.