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Faster Ruby Test Execution With Devver
Devver is a new service that runs your Ruby tests in parallel on their cloud infrastructure. InfoQ talked to Ben Brinckerhoff from Devver to understand how they can speed up your tests.
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Guidelines for Better Unit Tests
Jimmy Bogard, Charlie Poole, Lior Friedman, Charlie Poole and others give their guidelines for more readable and useful unit tests.
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FlexMonkey 1.0 Released
Gorilla Logic, Inc. has announced the first production release of FlexMonkey with version 1.0. FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool for Flex and AIR applications. FlexMonkey provides for the capture, replay, and verification of Flex user interface functionality.
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Mocking for Java and Flex
There are plenty of choices for creating mock objects in Java but Flex has seen little development in this area, until recently. The popular and maturing Mockito framework now has a Flex counterpart, which aims to bring mocking to Flex.
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Recommended TDD Tutorials
Recently, Dave Nicolette consolidated a list of recommended TDD tutorials from a discussion on the Extreme Programming group. Here is a sneak peak at the consolidated list with categorization for quickly getting started with Test Driven Development.
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NUnit 2.5 had been Released
After nearly a year's work, NUnit 2.5 has finally released. This release includes: Data-Driven Tests, Inline Expected Exception Tests, Generic and Lambda support, Out of process execution of tests and Source Code Display.
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Pex White-box Test Generator Updated
Microsoft Research has released a new version of Pex, an automated white-box testing library for .NET. Pex v0.11 brings support for Delegates as Parameters, a new Exception Tree View, Stubbed Events, and Recursive Stubs.
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J.B. Rainsberger: "Integration Tests Are A Scam"
Well-known agilist and TDD expert J.B. Rainsberger has begun a series of posts to explain why his experience has led him to the thought-provoking conclusion that "integration tests are a scam".
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Run Code Run: Hosted Continuous Integration
RunCodeRun is a hosted continuous integration service for Ruby projects on GitHub, developed by Relevance. We take a first look at the project and talked to its developer Rob Sanheim.
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Gallio and MbUnit 3.06 Released
The popular .NET automation and test framework, Gallio and MbUnit have a new release available. This release includes many new features and performance enhancements, including parallelizable tests, one-click test debugging, and ReSharper 4.5 support.
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What’s Planned for Visual Studio Team System 2010
Bill Maurer, Developer Technology Specialist at Microsoft, held a conference presenting what new features Visual Studio Team System 2010 (VSTS) will have in the following key domains: Team Foundation Server, Source Control, Project Management, Testing, Development and Architecture.
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Presentation: The Ethics of Error Prevention
No one wants programming errors. We have many tools to detect and correct errors in code. We also have a number of techniques we can use to prevent the introduction of errors. In this presentation, Michael Feathers t looksat error prevention while posing a number of interesting questions.
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Moq 3.0 Released
Version 3.0 RTM of the popular Moq .NET mocking library is now available. Moq 3.0 includes Silverlight support, improved event and property mocking, Pex integration, and improved samples.
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Details on Using Code Contracts
InfoQ has informed on the availability of Code Contracts for .NET. This time we want to offer more details on using Code Contracts, an important addition to .NET.
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Code Contracts for .NET Is Available for Download
Code Contracts is the .NET implementation of the Design by Contract concept. While it was supposed to be delivered with .NET 4.0, Code Contracts is already available for download from DevLabs. Contracts impose certain restrictions on using APIs, making programming safer, having more validations and resulting in fewer unexpected errors during runtime.