Agile software testing: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), etc.
PowerMock can be used to test code normally regarded as untestable! Have you ever heard anyone say that you should never use static or final methods in your code because it makes them impossible to test? Have you ever changed a method from private to protected for the sake of …
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …
Pex is a white-box test generation tool for .NET. Starting from a hand-written parameterized unit test, Pex analyzes the program-under-test to determine relevant test inputs fully automatically. To this end, Pex executes the program multiple times with different inputs while monitoring the taken execution paths. Pex uses a constraint solver …
FitNesse is a fully integrated standalone wiki and acceptance testing framework. This video is a quick overview of the architecture and usages of Slim.
A heuristic is a method to help solve a problem. It is particularly used as a method that often rapidly leads to a solution that is usually reasonably close to the best possible answer. Heuristics are “rules of thumb”, educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense. The talk will …
“Testing is design”; “Unit tests are documentation”; “Tests are specifications”. These are sought-after rewards of developer testing practices, but simply writing tests or even writing tests before writing production code doesn’t make these wishes come true. When we take up unit testing, we initially tend to do things a certain …
