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  • JSF Testing Tools

    Unit testing JSF applications has been considered difficult because of the constraints of testing JSF components outside the container. But this trend is changing with JSFUnit and other JSF test frameworks like Shale Test and JSF Extensions that support white-box testing approach to unit test both client and server components of the web application.

  • EviWare Releases v2.0 of soapUI, a Web Services Test Suite

    EviWare, an open source company recently released v2.0 of their soapUI product at JavaPolis 2007. The test suite is capable of tracking test coverage, perform test refactoring based on updated WSDLs and creating mockup services from previously recorded requests/responses .

  • Autotest - a hidden tool gem

    Autotest runs your tests whenever you save your files - actually, it's smarter than that. We take a look at how a tool like Autotest helps Ruby developers be productive without needing an IDE.

  • Does Dependency Injection pay off?

    There has been an interesting discussion in the blogosphere about the benefits or lack of benefits from using Dependency Injection. The question is — does Dependency Injection really pay off?

  • Article: Iterative, Automated and Continuous Performance

    A new InfoQ article looks at evaluating performance in an iterative and continuous manner.

  • Test Driven Development or Test Driven Requirements?

    Where does one start when practicing test driven development? With the requirements or with the design? Or, put another way, top-down or bottom-up? When one starts to write a test first, without any code, what does that test represent? Both approaches are practiced in the Agile community, but there is little consensus on which provides more value.

  • Rhino Mocks 3.3 is Ready

    The latest version of the very popular mocking framework, Rhino Mocks version 3.3 is complete and ready to be used by your tests. This release provides many new features including Remoting Proxies and more.

  • Cory Foy on Database Unit Testing

    Cory Foy walks developers step-by-step through unit testing logic implemented at the database layer.

  • High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?

    Inconsistencies between the user interface and user’s expectations can be an important source of bugs. According to Leonardo Vernazza, this is due the fact that the user and the UI do not talk the same language. Using a DSL, characterized by a high abstraction level, would be instrumental for avoiding the risk of translation errors and would therefore reduce the testing burden.

  • Next-Generation Functional Testing

    What should the next generation of functional testing tools offer? The Agile Alliance is holding a workshop to envision the next-generation of functional testing tools, from October 11th to 12th. What do you think needs the most attention?

  • Selenium Grid: Web Testing in Parallel

    Pervasive user-interface/acceptance testing can be a drag on test and therefore build speed. Selenium Grid offers the ability to run Selenium tests in parallel on one machine or on a farm of machines in a reliable, easy-to-use way. InfoQ speaks with the Selenium Grid team.

  • xUnit.net - Next Generation of Unit Testing Frameworks?

    Jim Newkirk, creator of NUnit, has announced a new Unit Testing Framework called xUnit.net. The proclaimed successor to NUnit is supposed to get rid of NUnit's mistakes and shortcomings and add some best practices and extensibility to the framework.

  • TestMaker 5 Adds Distributed Test Support and Performance Comparison Utility

    PutshToTest has released TestMaker 5.0 which allows developers to turn their unit tests into functional tests, load tests, and automated monitors. Among the new features in 5.0 are distributed test support, integration of SoapUI, and a new performance comparison utility.

  • Review: Continous Performance Management

    Steven Haines from Quest has published an article demonstrating the use of performance analysis tools in the continuous build cycle as best practice and makes some thought provoking points about the cost of not doing so.

  • Is Selenium worth the pain?

    Is Selenium worth the pain? Atlassian developer Nick Menere has asked that very question on the Atlassian Developer Blog. In his blog post Menere looks at the roadblocks found while trying to use Selenium to test two new Ajax features of JIRA 3.10.

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