In his seminal book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers defines “legacy code” as code without tests. Unfortunately this is exactly what my team wound up creating towards the end of our Groovy/Grails project. We were hoping that our Selenium tests would cover both the JavaScript in the browser and the Groovy code in [...] ...
A big part of achieving Continuous Delivery is taking care of your developers by giving them the best tools possible. On my current project we encountered just such a situation. We decided to use Spock with Selenium for our functional testing. The documentation suggested that we run using ‘grails test-app’ but the startup time using [...] ...
I have been to 2 CITCONs and I highly recommend this conference. More info here: http://www.citconf.com/portland2012/ ...
Today I attended an excellent presentation by Denali Lumma at the Selenium SF meetup. Especially pleasant for me was an “Aha!, I told you so” moment when she described Okta ...
In distributed caching, cache keys and cached values routinely travel across the network. That’s why it is critical to write proper unit tests for keys and values in order to ...
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I’ve never posted a job ad here, but this is a position I would be interested in if I was looking and also to help a friend out. They are ...
At one of my recent engagements, I was assigned to test the reports feature. The setup was as follows: reports were produced via a third-party tool and ran in a ...
I just had the privilege to participate in the Agile Testing class presented by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Dale Emery at the Agilistry studio in Pleasanton, CA. An important component of ...
On April 23rd, 2011 I participated in the European Weekend Testers online group testing session. We tested some boundaries of the Skype test chat. While the session was facilitated from ...
Most testers of enterprise applications have some programming background, some even have degrees in computer science, but most of them would not qualify as professional programmers and that is the ...
Nice, short screencast. Watch it to get a clue. ...
The so called Cyber Monday stresses many online store site to the breaking point. Here is one that I got this morning: XmlPackage Exception: Exception=Last Trace Point=[]. An error occurred ...
ScalaCheck features automatic test case generation and minimization of failing test cases. ScalaCheck started out as a Scala port of the Haskell library QuickCheck, and has since evolved and been ...
This is an interesting move and indicates increasing maturity of the developer productivity tools marketplace. I am curious if Atlassian will make a testing tools aquisition as well. Additional info ...
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface. ...
This article presents practices to write more testable code with many examples in java, going a step further than just TDD. link ...
Ivonna is an Asp.Net testing tool that allows writing unit tests for your Asp.Net applications. What makes it different is that Ivonna runs in the same process as the test ...
Gurock Software just announced version 3.3 of its popular logging tool SmartInspect. SmartInspect is a tool for .NET, Java and Delphi developers to debug and monitor software applications and to ...
Mountain View, CA and Hamburg, Germany, 29 March 2010. Today Viewtier Systems announced that it integrated Viewtier Parabuild with froglogic Squish, a popular tool for automated testing of user interfaces. ...
Given Maven is a popular tool we decided to put together an integration doc for its use with LiquidTest. The integration was planned to go out with our website refresh ...
Gurock Software just released its new test management solution TestRail. TestRail is a web-based test case management software that helps software development teams and QA departments to efficiently manage, track ...
The free Community Edition of the Ajax-based web application Klaros-Testmanagement is now available in version 2.5. The new release now provides integration with the popular open source project management and ...
Anthony Scotney blogs about the principles LiquidTest was founded upon: “There is a great article by 37signals called ‘Have an Enemy’. By knowing your ‘enemy’, you know what you don’t ...
Original Software to host sessions on Agile Testing, Test Automation and Test Data Management 25 January 2010 – Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced its attendance ...