Stop trying to be a computer; you are a human! You know what humans are good at? Storytelling. As a software tester or developer, you should stop trying to write tests just to get a green test suite, and start telling rich, descriptive stories. Once you have a good story, …
Do your product owners, designers and the people that pay you understand what in the world your Espresso tests are doing and why they are valuable? You’ve spent so much time and effort writing these tests and your whole team deserves to get the most benefit out of them. Learn …
Spun off of the eXtreme Programming movement, Test Driven Development (TDD) has taken the software industry by storm. From a highly controversial Agile testing approach, TDD has become a ubiquitous industry practice and the poster child of software engineering maturity. But is it all it is cracked up to be?
This tutorial presents a case study on how to use Kotlin for Android in the wild, and what it took for our team to utilize Kotlin for Test-Driven Development (TDD) successfully. This is a full walk through of a real Android app that is available in the Google Play store …
This presentation covers the theory behind mutation testing and how to use it, but most importantly it looks at what it is really for and how it can make your life easier. Mutation testing is a once obscure development technique that dates back to the 1970s. Faults (or mutations) are …
In enterprise Java application development, software testing often is treated very much as poor relations. But for more than ‘Hello World’ applications testing is not just nice to have (at the end of the project) rather than crucial for working software.
