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

SpecFlow: Pragmatic BDD for .NET

Published August 18th, 2011 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

This video gives a brief introduction to using SpecFlow and shows the latest interesting features. SpecFlow is a tool for the for .NET ecosystem that supports the implementation of the ideas behind those methodologies. SpecFlow builds upon the success of Cucumber, the famous BDD tool from Ruby &Rails. SpecFlow provides integration to Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, NuGet and Silverlight.

Download this video from http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day1%20Wednesday/Track5%201340-1440.mp4

BDD with Puppet and Cucumber

Published August 3rd, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to manage systems with Cucumber and Puppet based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles, including practical tricks and pitfalls. The session contains demoes that use Cucumber and Puppet.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/BDD-with-Puppet-Cucumber

TickSpec Breakpoint Demo

Published July 26th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video provides a demo of TickSpec that shows how to set a breakpoint and debug your code. TickSpec is a F# BDD Framework.

Cucumber – Scaling Up

Published April 18th, 2011 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Addressing the challenges of introducing Cucumber in a large organisation and across multiple teams. Realising the benefits of having acceptance tests as a means of checking completion. Bringing Cucumber in alongside existing work practices to aid adoption.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-scrum/cucumber-scaling-up

BDD in Java with Easyb

Published April 18th, 2011 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Easyb is a behavior driven development framework for the Java platform. Easyb aims to enable executable and readable documentation using a specification based Domain Specific Language.

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