Load Testing for Developers

Published January 23rd, 2012 Under Performance Testing | Leave a Comment

Debugging live performance and scalability issues when a system is slow with business sponsors watching over your shoulder is not fun. Load testing is an often forgotten and seemingly difficult task that many people shy away from but a basic level of load testing is often enough to give you confidence that you’ve satisfied expectations regarding performance and scalability. Read more

Testing a RESTful Web Service with JMeter

Published January 17th, 2012 Under Performance Testing | Leave a Comment

This video shows how to use JMeter as an automated test harness, triggering a breakpoint in the Jersey / JTA / JPA / Hibernate / MySQL / Glassfish RESTful web service. It explains how the code works as it step through it. Read more

Test XSLT with XSpec

Published January 12th, 2012 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Test-driven development is one of the corner stones of Agile development, providing quick feedback about mistakes in code and freeing developers to refactor safe in the knowledge that any errors they introduce will be caught by the tests. There have been several test harnesses developed for XSLT, of which XSpec is one of the latest. Read more

Build Automation and Continuous Integration with TFS 2010

Published January 12th, 2012 Under Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to leverage TFS 2010, Windows Workflow (WF), and MSBuild to streamline the build and deployment processes and enable continuous integration. Continuous integration is an Agile best practice that allows for faster, more frequent feedback from other developers and even business stakeholders by providing regular builds, unit test runs, and deployments via automated build processes instrumented using a build server such as TFS Build. Read more

Test First Development with Pex and Moles

Published January 5th, 2012 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video provides a demonstration of Pex, a parameterized white box unit test tool, and Moles, an isolation framework. These two tools useful for test-first development in the context of .NET development. Read more

Goal Driven Load Testing using Visual Studio

Published December 21st, 2011 Under Performance Testing | Leave a Comment

This short video discusses the types of performance testing, perform goal driven load testing with Visual Studio; analyzes the test run results and generate a report. Read more

Moving from MBUnit to NUnit

Published December 14th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explains the reasons and the effects of moving from MBUnit to NUnit for .NET unit testing. Both tools are open source solutions that belong to the xUnit family of unit testing tools. A post relating the experience of a different company making the same transition can be found here. Read more


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