Ever since J.B. Rainsberger’s ‘integrated tests are a scam’, many developers try to get rid of their massively integrated tests and test their units in isolation. Co-operation of units is tested with mocks and stubs. But – depending on the language used – this mocking can be more or less …
Mutation testing is a technique for systematically mutating source code in order to validate test suites. It makes small changes to a program’s source code and then runs a test suite; if the test suite ever succeeds on mutated code then a flag is raised.
Citrus is a powerful open source integration testing tool for automated service API tests. The framework concentrates on the interfaces to boundary applications and services with the ability to exchange messages on client and server side with different message transports (Http, JMS, TCP/IP, FTP, …) and formats (XML, JSON).
A brief introduction to some of the capabilities of TestLink. TestLink is an open soruce web based Test Management tool.The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers.
Expensive commercial utilities ruled the debugging market for years, but learn how a loose confederation of 10 powerful Open Source debugging tools has adeptly fulfilled many of those same needs, and in many cases, taken debugging to the next level. In this 60 minute bootcamp, get exposed to tcpdump, netstat, …
Matt Honeycutt doesn’t like development friction and especially testing friction. Over the last several years, his approach to test-driven development and the style of test cases he creates have changed drastically in an effort to eliminate testing frication. In these screencasts, he uses TDD to implement a class in RageFeed. …
