Testing C# and ASP.NET Applications with Ruby

Published January 3rd, 2011 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

The Ruby community has always understood the importance of testing. They strive to make applications more
testable while improving the approaches and tools they use. They have created some amazing frameworks and a series of best practices to support testing. C# and ASP.net developers can take full advantage for their own applications. This session provides an insight into the Ruby world and how you can take advantage to create readable, maintainable and valuable tests for ASP.net based web applications. This video demonstrates how to integrate Ruby frameworks such as RSpec and Cucumber into your application development cycle, and how different frameworks combined with Ruby can solve a number of problems traditionally faced when using C#.

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Frontend Testing Frontier

Published December 2nd, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

While most Ruby developers are very familiar with testing their code, frontend and JavaScript-testing is still a new frontier for many. This talk will show you how to easily write and run JavaScript integration tests with Capybara and Cucumber, and unit tests with Evergreen and Jasmine. The goal is to get you excited about frontend testing, and point you in the right direction to get started yourself!

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Comparing FitNesse, Cucumber and keywords for Domain Specific Test Languages

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

FitNesse, BDD/ATDD based tools (like Cucumber) and various keywords based tools each have their followers when it comes to automated testing at the system or acceptance level. But few have tried each type and many are wondering which one best suits their organisation, project or product. The concept of Domain Specific Test Languages (DSTL) is a great improvement over record & playback based approaches to automated testing and promises easy to read & write tests in the language of the business and low maintenance effort. This interactive session first presents DSTLs and how they fit in an Agile process & team and then considers how each type of tool supports this effective approach to automated testing. The tools will be compared using one non-trivial test case, to illustrate some of their strengths and limitations

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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby

Published August 4th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/hall-testing-with-ruby

Cucumber-nagios + Flapjack: Rethinking Monitoring for the Cloud

Published June 16th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Writing checks for your monitoring system is boring. You end up writing the same checks again and again, and it can be difficult to verify behavior instead of availability. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a standard library of checks you could reuse across your infrastructure? it lets you write reusable behavioral tests in human-readable language.Say hello to cucumber-nagios – it lets you write reusable behavioral tests in human-readable language. As cucumber-nagios output the test results in the Nagios plugin format you can run your checks from any monitoring system that understands the format, but as you start adding more machines to your monitoring system you’re going to notice slowdowns and reliability problems. Enter Flapjack, a scalable and distributed monitoring system. It natively talks the Nagios plugin format, and can easily be scaled from 1 server to 1000. Flapjack aims to be simple to set up, configure, and maintain, and easily scales from a single host to multiple. This presentation will be covering how to get up and running with both cucumber-nagios + Flapjack, writing tests for your web apps, and why it’s important to test the behavior (and not just the availability) of your production web apps.

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iCucke: Integration testing for iPhone applications with Cucumber

Published June 10th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

iCuke allows you to write integration tests for your iPhone applications without changing your existing code (as long as your application makes proper use of the accessibility APIs). Usage is pretty much as you’d expect, install the gem and load the iCuke step definitions in a cucumber support file.

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Pickle with Cucumber

Published March 10th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format. Pickle gives you cucumber steps that create your models easily from factory-girl or machinist factories/blueprints

http://railscasts.com/episodes/186-pickle-with-cucumber

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