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 Kungfu

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Kon

A great presentation with audio that talks about Junit 4, test naming and other things.  I liked this presentation because it starts expression Behaviour Driven Development concepts without actually using a Behaviour Driven Development Framework.  Additionally its one of the … Continue reading →

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Testing Presentations

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Kon

Their has been a presentation I watched last year that absolutely changed my opinion on how I tested and how I designed.  It was one of those presentations that just made sense and I cant believe I haven’t blogged about … Continue reading →

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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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