vsTODOlist is a Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 language extension that allows you to
implement to-do lists for your development projects using color coding and
Intellisense.
A TODO list file is still
- text based
- partially unstructured
vsTODOlist is
- Free
- Customizable.
Screen cast and download at http://www.InCisif.net/vsTODOlist
Free Podcast: Featuring Frank Cohen on Unit Testing in Java & SOA 
Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this podcast, Frank takes Java developers through the advanced topics in unit testing: turning unit tests into functional tests, running unit tests on a scalable grid of unit testing nodes, leveraging unit tests build by developers in the software testing effort, correlating unit test results to frameworks that observe hot spots of performance and providing operational data to unit tests at test runtime. Frank also talks about TestMaker and Selenium.
Original Software launches TestDrive-Assist and community site with free downloads
Chicago, April 8, 2008 – Original Software, a leader in next-generation software test automation, today announced the launch of ManualTesting.com and the latest version of TestDrive-Assist, its unique solution aimed at streamlining the manual testing process without taking away any control from the tester. ManualTesting.com is a community site for software quality professionals containing numerous free resources designed to alleviate the headaches caused by the burden of time-consuming manual testing on QA departments. The site also features a free trial download of the newly-launched product, which can reduce the time spent on manual testing by over a third.
Just got back from CITCON 2008, Denver. This was my second CITCON and I am very happy I went. David.
CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, is a world-wide series of free Open Spaces events for developer-testers, tester-developers and anyone else with an interest in Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.
CITCON provides a forum to connect with other people on topics you care about, to learn from their experience and share your own. Past topics include:
* What is Continuous Integration?
* What CI Tools can learn from the Rubber Chicken
* What Is The One True Language For Writing Tests?
* The Future of Build Languages
* BDD is not TDD
* How Far is End-to-End?
* Fit for Fun and Profit
* Overcoming Barriers to Adoption
Its a sign of the times that no self-respecting source-level library vendor ships without tests. Read more on Brad Abrams' blog.
Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java and .NET FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures.
See http://gojko.net/fitnesse/fixturegallery/ for more information and download links.
SevenMock v1.1 has now been released - extending the light-weight mock object implementation with a class extension sub-project. This allows generated mock objects to be cast directly to classes as well as interfaces - which will prove useful for anyone who wants to mock classes that don't implement defined interfaces.
I am pleased to finally announce version 1.0 of DbFit. DbFit is a set of FIT fixtures which enables FIT/FitNesse tests to execute directly against a database. This enables developers to manipulate database objects in a relational tabular form, making database testing and management much easier than with xUnit-style tools. The library is free to use, released under GNU GPL.
The Good News: there are now 3 projects that do selective testing in java - Testar, JTestMe, Infinitest
The Bad News: each is in various stages of incompleteness.
Yet I am encouraged and hope that progress will be swift in this area.
I see three major use cases for selective testing:
* Running tests while editing your code just as modern IDEs compile your code on the fly. The best example of this approach is Infinitest.
* Making the smoke test build fast. (Often the smoke test is run as a pre-submit test for the code to be committed to the repository)
* Quick feedback from acceptance/integration/QA tests. This is best achieved with a build grid to run these tests in parallel.
A few days ago I had a session at a .NET conference in Germany (BASTA Spring 2008). I talked about software quality assurance and especially test driven development. Because of many people asking me about the details and the source code of my talk I wrote an article about TDD (including TDD of Web-UIs) with Visual Studio 2008 and WatiN: Bug Busters - Test Driven Development in .NET.
I've written an article re-evaluating how we test our databases. It is part of a series of articles rethinking agility as it pertains to databases..
A recent Methods & Tools poll researched the agile software development practices adoption rate in organizations. The question asked was "At what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, ...) adoption at your location?" A similar poll was already performed in 2005. Its results are between brackets.
Not aware: 13% (26%)
Not using: 13% (16%)
Investigating: 14% (14%)
Analysed and rejected: 4% (3%)
Pilot projects: 8% (4%)
Partial implementation (adoption of some agile practices): 17% (17%)
Partial deployment (some projects are using this approach): 14% (12%)
Deployed (all new projects are using this approach): 17% (8%)
Participants: 512 (232 in 2005)
Comparing the two sets of results, we could notice that the level of ignorance of the agile movement has decreased, as only 13% of the organizations are not aware of its existence. Full deployment numbers have doubled in the recent years to reach 17% and total rate of various adoption levels is now 56% compared to 41% in 2005.
Complete results, analysis and extensive references to other agile adoption survey are available on http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?Agile2
February 26, 2008 – Typemock Ltd, the world leading unit testing framework provider, announced today the new release of Typemock Isolator, the ultimate solution to enable shorter development cycles, higher quality of production code, better tested and more stable software components.
WebTest is an extension to FIT/FitNesse that implements a customer-friendly language for web testing, utilising Selenium Remote Control. WebTest runs inside FitNesse, allowing you to integrate web UI tests into an automated build system, and use other FitNesse fixtures to talk to your domain model, prepare and verify database changes during Web UI tests. Both .NET and Java FitNesse runners are supported, and the library is released under GPL.
Java mocking is dominated by record-replay-verify libraries like EasyMock or jmock. Mockito offers simpler and more intuitive approach: you ask questions about interactions after execution. Using mockito, you verify what you want. Using expect-run-verify libraries you often look after irrelevant interactions.
