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How to Narrow Down What to Test
Zsolt Fabok provides guidance on selecting those sections of code that are most likely to profit from automated testing and leaving out those where chances for errors are low.
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Creating a Walking Skeleton
Paul Grenyer discusses why and how to create a Walking Skeleton - an implementation of the thinnest possible slice of real functionality that we can automatically build, deploy and test end-to-end.
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The Developer in Test
Dave Hart introduces the “developer in test” role more testing at the unit level and adding a level of testing between unit and system, and providing testing frameworks for regression system testing.
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Selenium - Less Testing, More Coding
Jonathan Lipps introduces Selenium, a functional testing framework, discussing and demoing how Selenium is used in the automated testing stack, then shares some gotchas and best practices.
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Ubiquitous Testing - Testing Is Too Important to Leave to the End
Yehoram Shenhar and Alistair McKinnell present a way of doing testing having every team member involved in planning, estimating, and defining tests, testability being an architectural system attribute
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Testing Java Code With Confidence
Doug Hiebert discusses the principles and objectives behind automated testing, TDD, Unit and Integration Testing, using asserting and mocking to write tests, and static analysis.
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Pontificating Quantification
Daniel Spiewak and Aaron Bedra take a look at code verifying starting with Tony Hoare’s paper on testing(1969), type theory, and language-integrated proof systems.
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Infrastructure as Code
Gareth Rushgrove offers advice, code samples, and introduces tools - Puppet, Chef and CloudFormation – helpful for automating every infrastructure operations.
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Keynote: System, Heal Thyself
Mike Andrews discusses architecting for failure even you when don’t know what might fail.
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Testing Mobile Apps
Julian Harty covers various challenges and practices for testing applications for mobile devices.
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Introducing Calabash - Automated Functional Testing for Mobile Native Apps
Karl Krukow discusses the importance of automated functional testing of native mobile applications, suggesting using Calabash –a Cucumber-like tool- and LessPainful –an online testing service-.