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

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

Test-driven Development in JavaScript

Published September 21st, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to use test-driven development to design and implement a simple JavaScript web application, including how to steer it towards component based micro-architecture.

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Test-driven JavaScript in Practice

Published August 25th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explores functional tests and unit tests alike, implements a fully functional browser “widget”. The session will walk you through some of the tools currently available for JavaScript testing, discuss some of the hardest challenges and show you the workflow – all the way from the first test to the green light on the continuous integration server.

http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day1%20Wednesday/Track5%201620-1720.mp4

Test Driven Development with Visual Studio 2010

Published March 28th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

These two videos shows how to do Test Driven Development (TDD) with Visual Studio 2010. The first part covers from the Visual Studio solution creation to running the unit test getting a fail result. The second part covers making the test pass.

Test Driven Development in Lithium

Published March 17th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | 1 Comment

This video provides a brief introduction to the unit testing suite included with Lithium and how to quickly get started with some test-driven development. Lithium is a lightweight, fast and flexible framework for PHP 5.3.

Video Producer: http://spacialeffect.com/

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