Agile software testing: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), etc.
At the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AAFTT) Visioning Workshop, Elisabeth Hendrickson proposes a high level structure to standard where the elements in a functional test go. She discusses how xUnit and FIT provide significant value through the power of organizing elements.
Naresh Jain’s lightning talk at Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools (AAFTT) Visioning Workshop. Naresh discusses an approach to managing unit, integration, and functional test suites to address the increasing cost of feedback as test suites grow. Naresh suggests developing a framework that will treat all tests the same, dynamically select …
Jennitta Andrea and Ward Cunningham talk about the future of Functional Test Tools in this hour long seminar. An explanation of test-driven development often begins by describing the red-green-refactor cycle. This slogan is so catchy and the description so simple that practitioners and tool developers tend to focus only on …
All tests automation systems have certain common tasks. Different tools tend to focus on some tasks and put less emphasis on other tasks. While examining 11 home-grown test automation tools at F5, we found certain patterns. There were six different tasks that all tools addressed to varying degrees. We found …
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently. Usually each person integrates at least daily leading to multiple integrations per day. When integration is verified by an automated build (including test) the gross and obvious integration errors are detected as quickly …
This presentation by Elfriede Dustin and Marcus Borch at the Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) discusses our various efforts to streamline automated software testing implementations. By “automating the automation” via use of existing open source tools, component “reuse” and by automating as much as feasible related to automated …
