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Selenium is not a panacea

Selenium is a great tool for acceptance testing of web applications: it works with real browsers, and drives them to exercise your application of choice in the...

0 replies - 8119 views - 09/07/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Agile Testing

I have come across many projects claiming to be Agile, however they are really doing nothing more than mini-waterfalls. They do the Requirements, design,...

0 replies - 2547 views - 08/30/10 by Venkatesh Kris... in News

The different kinds of testing

Automated testing supports your constant effort in design and refactoring, and besides that ensures that your application actually works in a reliable and...

0 replies - 19865 views - 08/29/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Do Developers Have Enough Time to Keep Their Skills Up-To-Date?

Over half of the developers polled in a recent survey by Embarcadero Technologies say "no," they don't have enough time to learn that new language,...

5 replies - 22903 views - 08/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of...

0 replies - 14385 views - 08/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Kent Beck's Test Driven Development Screencasts

Following the recommendations of Corey Haines, Michael Guterl, James Martin and Michael Hunger I decided to get Kent Beck's screencasts on Test Driven...

1 replies - 8207 views - 07/29/10 by Mark Needham in Articles

You Are Your Software's Immune System!

The vertebrate immune system rivals the most intricately engineered security system on a bad day, detecting and destroying most microorganisms that we...

0 replies - 8837 views - 07/20/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Video: The Tough Questions About Testing

Unit testing is a part of Test-Driven Development, but TDD is not only about Unit testing.  In TDD, you usually write tests before you write any application...

1 replies - 4784 views - 06/22/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Anatomy of a good acceptance test

The long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily...

1 replies - 6461 views - 06/21/10 by Gojko Adzic in News

Testing web applications with Selenium

There is a common problem between many testing harnesses: they are different from the real client (in the case of web applications a browser). Zend_Test,...

4 replies - 14520 views - 06/15/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Things to do to improve code quality

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was recently out in Oslo teaching a course on Lean software development. One of the points I make is: Quality is...

3 replies - 43133 views - 06/03/10 by Allan Kelly in News

Free Fitnesse Cheat Sheet - DZone's 100th Refcard!!

Fitnesse is an open source automated framework for software testing. With this DZone Refcard, you'll easily create and edit platform independent tests....

0 replies - 32516 views - 05/24/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

Daily Dose - World Wide Web Lives Up to its Name: Non-Latin Addresses Go Live

ICANN has now begun allowing non-latin characters to be used in top-level internet domains by inserting the first IDN country-code domains into the DNS root...

0 replies - 14140 views - 05/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Continuous Testing with Selenium and JBehave using Page Objects

Since Mike‘s inception we have always sought to automate as much of our testing as possible. For some time now we have been using Selenium for our...

0 replies - 17746 views - 05/06/10 by Adam Leggett in News

Listening to your tests: An example

I was recently reading a blog post by Esko Luontola where he talks about the direct and indirect effects of TDD and one particularly interesting point he...

0 replies - 3856 views - 04/28/10 by Mark Needham in News