Category Archives: Testing

Tips, trials & tribulations regarding software testing techniques & tools such as Nunit, EasyMock, Mercury’s Test Director for Quality Center and the Quicktest Pro

Junit’s Theory’s as interprested by Schauderhaft and Groovy

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Kon

JUnit theories sound promising.  Many a time a developer writes a whole lot of @Tests along the lines of testParameterXzero(), testParameterXone(), testParameterXmaxInt(). The test code may be almost identical apart from the parameters being used in the class/method under test … Continue reading →

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UML and CRC and Agile References

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Kon

CRC Cards (Class Responsibility Collaborator cards) Class Name Responsibilities Collaborators A very good UML diagram reference (I may have referenced this one before). http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/umlDiagrams.htm And a page of useful agile resources, from a process standpoint. http://www.agilelogic.com/sp_resources.html I particularly like the … Continue reading →

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AssumeThat(flexibleJunitTesting.withMatchers(), isGreat());

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Kon

I’ve seen Matchers used in EasyMock but I kinda stumbled across the assertThat method in JUnit today and realised how powerful this stuff can be. Usage: assertThat(“You Failed”, testValue, allOff(greaterThan(3), lessThan(6)) They seem a lot simpler in this context even … Continue reading →

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Get Fit

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Kon

Fit is a framework that helps the business get involved in specifying the requirements that end up being the testing.  When the business can use Word and Excel to generate their own test cases, connected to a simple fixture and … Continue reading →

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Now for something Obvious

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Kon

In this presentation about FIT, the presenter, David, takes a look at the meaning of the term ‘the build is broken’.  What it is now compared to 10 years ago.  He states that as technologists we should be proud that … Continue reading →

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Swing Explorer

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Kon

Initially Swing Explorer looked like it was the one size fits all solution to replace QTP. Ok, I was a bit nieve, its more aiken to the Object Spy of QTP, allowing to see the heirachy of a Java object … Continue reading →

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Sexy NUnit Runner

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Kon

ReSharper UnitRun is a plugin for VS.NET and its the best looking NUnit (or JUnit tool) I’ve seen to date.  

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Squish – An automated UI testing tool for Java

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Kon

New (for Java) Automated UI testing tool. Supports Mercury Quality Center integration. Can write your scripts in JavaScript, Perl, Tkl. http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=Products&category=squish&sub=editions&subsub=java And when you want to change all your vbscript scripts to JavaScript, you could use this

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Test Driven Development : A party drug

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Kon

My good friend Scott recently got into Test Driven Development, essentially pointing out that the crossover to understanding why TDD was important basically sat between the fact that TDD was essentially misnamed. If you took out the references to Testing, … Continue reading →

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Installing TD for QC (8.2 SP1) on Solaris 10

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Kon

Although, Test Director for Quality Center is not supported to run under Solaris 10, you can get around the annoying installer messages by giving the command line parameter platformCheck.active=false qc_install_solaris_sparc.bin -W platformCheck.active=false

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