Methods & Tools is a free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2009 issue's content:
* Coding and Testing: Testers and Programmers Working Together
* Responsibility Driven Design with Mock Objects
* How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure
* Scrum Roles - an Unsolvable Puzzle?
* TDD - FDD - BDD… Why not PDD?
* Open-Source Messaging Servers

60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer09

EU commissioners are proposing that software companies be held liable for the quality of their products, and Typemock is holding an open microphone event at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) to find out if unit testing can give companies the assurance and confidence needed to meet the proposed bill.

We spoke to Wolfram Klebel, one of ETM's development and testing engineers, and asked him what products ETM tests with froglogic's automated GUI testing tool Squish.

ETM use Squish to test their SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software—PVSS. This software is used for controlling complex industrial and infrastructure systems including traffic tunnels, water treatment plants, subway systems, and the new particle accellerator at CERN.

Read the full story at http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=ReferenceCustomers&category=Squish-Success-at-ETM

This article shows how to remove duplication from unit tests.

http://www.sqazone.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=396

Coverity, Inc., the software integrity company, announced that co-founder Dawson Engler has been awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his groundbreaking research on automated program checking that identifies defects in complex computer software.

This is the story of how I got interested in the MVVM pattern. Not surprisingly, it is all about testing.

http://www.houseofbilz.com/archive/2009/05/27/adventures-in-mvvm-ndash-a-testing-story.aspx

Dear Friends,

I am happy to announce that I have taken a job at Guidewire Software. Guidewire is a unique company that takes quality and testing very seriously and has been able to attract some of the best TDD practitioners in the Silicon Valley. I am looking forward to learning much from them.

In preparation for my role on the testing team, I have been re-reading Goiko's Bridging the Communications Gap book. I consider this a special book because in addition to the requisite coverage of the latest tools and techniques this book also vividly reminds and inspires us to never forget that clear and accurate communication is the bedrock of any quality initiative. His anecdotes from various fields of endeavour clearly illustrate the fact that accurate communication is a problem as old as our civilization and has to be dealt with appropriately before any team can succeed in its mission.

We are proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.2a1!

FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy.

This is the first out of three alpha and three beta releases planned for version 1.2. This new version focuses on new features and improvements.

More details, please read the release notes.

Hamburg, Germany April 28, 2009—froglogic has announced that Squish, its leading, automated GUI testing tool, will support the testing of Cocoa Touch based applications on iPhone and iPod Touch devices and simulators.

Typemock Ltd., the leading company in the .NET unit testing world, will be launching on 18/May/2009 a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses.

No matter what your opinion is about singletons (I favor against them in most cases), it is important to understand what you can do when you encounter code that is dependent upon them. Especially when it comes to testing.

http://www.houseofbilz.com/archive/2009/05/02/what-to-do-about-those-pesky-singletons.aspx

JavaScript bridge sets new standards for the testing of web applications – handling and documentation of web2test improved as well

Software developer itCampus has released version 1.2 of its innovative test software. The tool allows for automated, functional testing of web applications and supports most of the established browsers from Internet Explorer to FireFox and Seamonkey.
During the past few weeks the itCampus developer team has been working on several new features which greatly improve the testing using web2test.

Same goals of Java Concordion, only its written in Ruby!

http://ruby-concordion.rubyforge.org Ruby Concordion

Concordion is an open source tool for writing automated acceptance tests in Java.

"It's similar to the Fit Framework but a lot more intuitive."

http://www.concordion.org

I was recently asked by someone on Twitter to describe my setup for writing tests against my Silverlight application. I thought I would write them down here in case others might find this information useful.

http://www.houseofbilz.com/archive/2009/03/28/my-silverlight-testing-rig.aspx