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ObjectMother - a Forgotten Testing Tool
One of the earliest techniques for writing tests using TDD did not use mocks and stubs, but used the actual business objects instead. By creating a set of factories that instantiated, composed, and executed methods on business objects, real objects, in a non-initial-state of their lifecycle, could be created for testing purposes. The name coined for this pattern was ObjectMother.
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Presentation: System Integration Testing with Spring
Spring provides a holistic solution that makes your application's use cases and subsystems easier to test. The emphasis is on testing outside a JEE server or container, thus greatly improving productivity. In this presentation, Spring Creator Rod Johnson discusses integration testing and the support that Spring provides for it.
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Testing and Quality Control the only Certification Needed?
A new certification for software developers that is neither about in depth knowledge of programming languages, nor any modelling and design techniques, was suggested by Reginald Braithwaite. Only one subject would be on the examination list - "Testing and quality control". Safety has to be the prerequisite to any software development job. For the rest marketplace will decide.
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Article: Unit-Testing XML
In this exclusive InfoQ article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to use the XMLUnit Java framework to write tests in the presence of XML.
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100% Test Coverage?
How much testing is enough? The answer varies depending on whom you ask. On one end of the spectrum, some say you should strive to achieve 100% test coverage. Others say it doesn't matter, that you should just rely on the quality of the tests, and that measuring test coverage does not tell you anything about the quality of the tests and the code being tested.
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Scott Ambler on the role of testing & QA in Agile projects
Scott Ambler talks to a testing & QA user group explaining how agile development teams take a test-first approach and work with stakeholders to acceptance test throughout the development lifecycle. Scott argues that software is of significantly higher quality than what traditionalists produce, and tells the group that their long term employment prospects as full time testers are in jeopardy.
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Matrix Your Rails Functional Tests
Following the DRY process philosophy and putting into practice separation of concerns, Ryan Davis introduced an interesting way of answering the question: How do you make testing complex specifications with many edge cases clearer? The answer: Matrix!
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Testing: Manual or Automated?
Automated testing is all the rage, but is it everything? Micahel, a Test Technical Lead at Microsoft, asks "How do you know whether you have automated enough - or too much?"
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Defining Design Quality
A good design is elegant and simple - but elegance is in the eye of the beholder. James Shore, in his book 'The Art of Agile Development', disagreed with this abstract concept. In fact, he provided a very concrete definition of design quality: "A good software design minimizes the time required to create, modify, and maintain the software while achieving run-time performance."
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Improving Quality with "Developer Testing Masters"
Alberto Savoia of Agitar Software recently suggested the creation of a new position - Developer Testing Master - to bridge the gap between developers and testers.
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Run Multiple Versions of IE on one PC
With the release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE), web developers once again need to test multiple versions of IE. Unlike other browsers like FireFox, IE is a system component for the Windows operating system. This makes running multiple versions side-by-side very difficult. Yousif Al Saif's Multiple IE installer makes that pain go away.
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WCF Live Service Trace Viewer
Craig and Vittorio release their Live Service Trace Viewer which is an enhancement to the one provided in the .NET 3.0 SDK. The differentiator: you can view the WCF interactions as they happen.
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Catching up with Selenium: Testing Ajax, v0.8 Released
Selenium is a web app functional testing tool that uses JavaScript and Iframes to embed a test automation engine in your browser, allowing Selenium to execute in any JavaScript-enabled browser. InfoQ spoke to core developer Jeff Xiong to find out more about the recent 0.8 release of Selenium core. Also, InfoQ is hosting a new article showing how to use Selenium to test Ajax apps.
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TestNG concluded more suitable for large-scale testing than JUnit 4
Andrew Glover has compared TestNG and JUnit 4, taking a look at some features that TestNG has over JUnit 4. Andrew quickly takes the position that TestNG is better for large scale testing, despite JUnit 4's recent addition of annotations and "dramatically relaxed structural rules for test case authoring."
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Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails
Well-known Railer Rabble launches a companion blog to his upcoming O'Reilly book covering the important topics of testing and debugging Ruby on Rails.