Best Practices to Write First Class Unit Tests

Published January 31st, 2012 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Techniques such as Test Driven Development, and more recently, Behavior Driven Development are well known. Yet, you still hear conflicting stories about unit testing. Some claim that introducing a lot of unit tests can hamper development, or that those tests are a maintenance problem on itself. To a limited degree I agree, but isn’t that true for all software that is not been well though off? An important reason for this is that unit tests not always seen as being part of the production code. 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

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

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

Debugging Tips for ColdFusion

Published November 30th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video shares some advice on how to strategically debug the load times of your ColdFusion sites, identifying unnecessary queries and inefficient code. Read more

TDD Android Applications with Robolectric

Published November 10th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Running tests on an Android emulator or device is slow! Building, deploying, and launching the app often takes a minute or more. Robolectric is a unit test framework that de-fangs the Android SDK jar so you can test-drive the development of your Android app inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds.

Watch this video on http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/tdd-android-applications-with-robolectric

Javascript Testing in Rails

Published November 1st, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This short tutorial explains how to use Jasmine to test JavaScript code in your Rails applications.

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