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Overcoming Technical Challenges for Adopting Agile Methods in the Enterprise

This article touches upon challenges to adopting agile methods within the enterprise and provided strategies for addressing them. Set up development environments in a consistent fashion using automated scripts and checklists, facilitate automated testing and continuous integration by using standard tooling and test data transparency, and ensure a stricter criteria for the done definition.

Vijay Narayanan
on Nov 09, 2009
Excerpts from an Interview with James Bach

Following are the most relevant excerpts from the interview with James Bach at Oredev 2008. He covers topics like: engineering, why we should be telling success stories, opening our minds to other scientific domains, automated testing and exploratory testing.

Abel Avram
on Sep 12, 2009
Book Excerpt and Interview: Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection by Dhanji R. Prasanna is a book that tries to explore the DI idiom in detail, and present techniques in Spring and Guice. Dhanji is a Google software engineer who works on Google Wave and also contributes to Guice, MVEL, and other open source projects.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 07, 2009
Layered Architecture for Test Automation

In test automation, code involved in testing is not only test logic, but also a bunch of other supporting code, like URL concatenation, XML parsing, UI, etc. Test logic can be buried in this unrelated code, which has nothing to do with test logic itself, making test code hard to read and maintain. In this article, the layered architecture of test automation is presented to solve this problem.

Bei Li
on Aug 11, 2009
Refactoring Automated Functional Test Scripts with iTest2

In programming world, refactoring has become a highly frequent used word among programmers. Programmers make code more readable and design more. IDEs come with support for various refactorings. Testers who develop or maintain automated test scripts usually do not have that kind of luxury, but share the same needs. ITest2 is a tool that brings refactoring to the testing community.

Zhimin Zhan
on Jul 22, 2009
FlexMonkey brings unit testing to Flex user interface developers

This article explores how Gorilla Logic's new, open source Flex user interface automation testing tool, FlexMonkey, can enhance the productivity of both developers and QA testers. FlexMonkey allows developers to incorporate user interface testing into unit test suites and continuous integration environments, and allows QA testers to expand those tests into comprehensive quality tests.

Stuart Stern
on Jul 15, 2009
Book Excerpt: Agile Testing

This book is for testers on an agile team, test and quality assurance managers transitioning to agile development, and agile teams learning how to approach testing. The book introduces agile testing, how it's different from testing on a traditional team, and what makes agile testers different. The book contains dozens of stories about the various testing-related issues faced and resolved.

Janet Gregory Lisa Crispin
on Mar 24, 2009
JavaScript Test Driven Development with JsUnit and JSMock

This article is a crash course in writing maintainable JavaScript. We'll add features to a running example by iteratively following a simple principle: write a unit test, make it pass. Each test will serve as a quality feedback loop, creating both a safety net and an executable form of documentation for anyone who wants to change the production code.

Dennis Byrne
on Feb 09, 2009
Performance Anti-Patterns in Database-Driven Applications

In this article, Alois Reitbauer, a Performance Architect for dynaTrace Software, specifies several architectural anti-patterns which can downgrade an application’s performance. Knowing those anti-patterns and proactively designing the application to avoid them will keep away certain snags that can impact application’s performance.

Alois Reitbauer
on Jan 05, 2009
Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for Adopters

Mark Levison observed that, after solid classroom training, teams in larger companies still struggle to adopt TDD. To better understand the problem he surveyed team members. In this article he shares the problems he uncovered and his own comprehensive strategy, designed to help anyone introducing TDD into an organization.

Mark Levison
on Jan 05, 2009
Typemock: Past, Present and Future

In this interview with Eli Lopian of Typemock, he discusses the impetus for Typemock, it's differentiators and program futures. Typemock was originally created to fill a need for a Test Driven Development tool within the .NET community.

Eli Lopian
on Sep 04, 2008
Book Excerpt and Interview: Effective Java, Second Edition

Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch is an updated version of the classic first edition, which was the winner of a 2001 Jolt Award. This edition has been updated to discuss Java 6 language features including generics, enums, annotations, autoboxing, the for-each loop, varargs, and concurrency utilities. InfoQ asked Bloch several questions about the areas that the new edition covers.

Ryan Slobojan
on May 13, 2008