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Higher Adoption for TDD Approach

11.13.2008 · Posted in News · Trackback

A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers. Read the full survey results on http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?UnitTest2 ...

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Automated GUI Testing Interview on Squish 4.0: Talking with froglogic’s founders

11.13.2008 · Posted in Articles · Trackback

Squish is the leading automated GUI testing tool supporting applications based on cross-platform GUI technologies such as Java Swing/AWT, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, C++/Qt, Web/HTML/Ajax and more. Squish is renowned for its dedicated toolkit support, use of open scripting languages, great flexibility, and robust test creation and execution. While the development of the upcoming Squish 4.0 [...] ...

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Verde – Turns Brown Code Green

11.13.2008 · Posted in Java · Trackback

Pillar has announced the availability of a new Software as a Service offering called Verde. We like the challenge of placing automated characterization tests around ancient legacy code. This old "Brown" and brittle code needs a jump start – a chance to turn "Green" again. This technology produces real Junit code at run time. We [...] ...

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Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

11.13.2008 · Posted in Articles

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that ...

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Wrong About TDD

11.06.2008 · Posted in Blogosphere

Stephen highlights what he missed out on by not adopting TDD earlier and exhorts others to join the mix. http://blog.ontheheap.com/2008/10/30/wrong-about-tdd/ ...

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TDD Randori/Coding Dojo’s

11.06.2008 · Posted in Advisories

Small successes in practicing TDD using Coding Dojo’s. Our first try while educational floundered on the problem size and the skill of the moderator. On our second attempt we went ...

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My Year With TDD

10.24.2008 · Posted in Articles

It’s been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done ...

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A New xUnit Test Pattern

10.11.2008 · Posted in Links

This article describes a xUnit pattern called ‘Own Library Interface’, which enables TDD for classes which seem not testable before. Especially TDD beginners can benefit from this pattern.link ...

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Windmill Testing Framework

09.11.2008 · Posted in Links

Windmill is a web testing framework intended for complete automation of user interface testing, with strong test debugging capabilities. The first goal of Windmill is to make test writing easier, ...

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Acceptance TDD Explained

08.19.2008 · Posted in Links

Acceptance test-driven development is what helps developers build high-quality software that fulfills the business’s needs as reliably as TDD helps ensure the software’s technical quality.link ...

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TDD Training

08.12.2008 · Posted in Links

Test-Drivent Development training examines how to write test code for a very small piece of program functionality. TDD training will explore how to develop the code, run a test, and ...

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Instinct 0.1.8 Release

07.28.2008 · Posted in Java

Instinct 0.1.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release resolving some minor bugs and packaging issues from the 0.1.7 release earlier this week.Instinct is a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) ...

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Coverity™ Introduces New Static Analysis Solution for C#

07.24.2008 · Posted in News

Coverity™, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced Coverity Prevent™ for C#. The product utilizes a new analysis engine developed by Coverity’s research and development lab ...

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Pex on Channel9

07.22.2008 · Posted in News

The Channel9 people came by Microsoft Research and shoot an interview of the Pex team. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/briankel/Pex-Automated-Exploratory-Testing-for-NET/ Pex is an automated whitebox test generation tool for .Net. ...

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