Software Testing Magazine

Software Testing in Distributed Teams

stmag — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:36:09 +0000

Distributed software development teams and distributed software testing are here to stay. In this article, Lisa Crispin asks “How do we get quality software in these situations?” and proposes some hints on how to get good results when you perform software testing with distributed teams. The first point discussed in the article is the importance of a rapid feedback that can be achieved through automated testing and continuous integration. Then she insists on the importance of building a culture of trust across the project and software testing team. Some additional practices ...

BlazeMeter Load Testing Platform Fully Integrated with CloudBees

stmag — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:11:04 +0000

BlazeMeter, provider of the Apache JMeter™ based load testing platform, has announced its complete integration into CloudBees, the leading provider of Java Platform as a Service (PaaS), which provides a foundation for cloud development and deployment services. BlazeMeter’s implementation of the Single Sign On process signifies its full integration into the CloudBees Platform. BlazeMeter became a CloudBees partner in November 2012, and now CloudBees users can seamlessly log into and purchase BlazeMeter’s performance testing services from within the CloudBees platform. As a result of the integration, Java developers and CloudBees users ...

Unit Testing JavaScript with Venus.js

stmag — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:07:05 +0000

Venus.js in an open source software testing tool developed by LinkedIn that allows you to organize and run your entire JS testing system with a single tool using Node.js. Venus eliminates repetitive tasks and friction points and lets you focus on writing tests instead of running them. If you already have JavaScript testing in place, Venus is designed to orchestrate and automate existing tools like Mocha, Jasmine and QUnit. This video begins with a brief overview of different ways to test code written for the web, including black-box vs. white-box testing ...

New SilkPerformer CloudBurst for Load Testing

stmag — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:22 +0000

Micro Focus has announced the availability of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability based on Micro Focus Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology. CloudBurst extends Micro Focus’ industry-leading load and performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enables testing organizations to easily manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands of users from multiple global points of presence and to quickly diagnose and resolve discovered issues. As organizations develop web applications that will be used by many thousands of users worldwide, traditional load testing methods ...

New Release of Atollic TrueSTUDIO

stmag — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:46 +0000

Atollic today announced the latest release of the Atollic TrueSTUDIO integrated development environment. Incorporating many new features, Atollic TrueSTUDIO v4.1 aims to even further assist embedded developers to write code of the highest quality. A significant feature added to TrueSTUDIO v4.1 includes the ability to record and display instruction trace data. Other features include the addition of automatic software unit testing within the optional TrueVERIFIER add-module, and a test case debugger within the optional TrueANALYZER add-on module. The new instruction tracing function records the execution flow in real-time for later analysis. ...

10 Test Automation Lessons Learned at eBay

stmag — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:09:49 +0000

eBay’s European quality engineering team has broad experience implementing end-to-end test automation in different software development environments (agile, waterfall, co located , outsourced, distributed). This presentation illustrates the key lessons learned from a technical and business perspective. These ten key lessons are: 1. Write the right tests 2. A tool is not a strategy 3. Automation is software development itself 4. Speak the same language as the developers 5. Everyone knows what’s automated 6. Instant Feedback is essential 7. Flip the testing triangle 8. Invest into the test Infrastructure 9. Maintainability is king 10. Manual Testing is still very important Video ...

New Release of Parasoft’s API Testing Solution,

stmag — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:53:53 +0000

Parasoft has announced the new release of Parasoft’s API testing solution, Parasoft SOAtest. This comprehensive enterprise-grade Cloud/API testing solution dramatically simplifies the complex testing needed for today’s interconnected business systems. “With the recent shift to an API economy, the integrity of the APIs you produce and consume is now more important than ever,” stated Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer for Parasoft. “As the market evolves, Parasoft remains the industry leader—delivering the enterprise-grade testing needed to ensure the security, reliability, and compliance of today’s extremely interconnected and interdependent applications.” The latest release simplifies ...

New TestComplete Supports JavaFX 2 and Apache Flex 4.9

stmag — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:26:30 +0000

A new version of TestComplete by SmartBear Software extends the company’s position in Web application and HTML5 testing with several upgrades, including support for the leading HTML5/JavaScript framework, Sencha Ext JS for rich Internet applications. This latest version of TestComplete increases cross-browser testing with support for Opera and Safari as well as updated support for the most recent versions of Chrome and Firefox. Along with Sencha Ext JS, this new version of TestComplete adds support for JavaFX 2, Qt 5 and Apache Flex 4.9. Integration with third party Agile tools is ...

Secrets to Successful Automated Testing with Watir

stmag — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:01:13 +0000

Automating tests is an investment that is valuable as long as the investment is not too great. We want to get to the payback more quickly. The true investment is not only the cost of creating and maintaining automated tests. Watir is a family of libraries for testing web applications. Watir reduces the cost of creating automated tests that are maintainable. If we spend too much time fixing and debugging, we will never get the new features created, or we will abandon the automated tests temporarily. Author: Dave McNulla, http://dmcnulla.wordpress.com/ By monitoring ...

LogiGear Adds Mobile Testing Capability to TestArchitect

stmag — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:07:50 +0000

LogiGear expands its TestArchitect product line to include test automation tools specifically for mobile and Windows-based applications. TestArchitect Professional is an economical test automation solution for testing Windows-based applications. TestArchitect Mobile Plus offers Windows-based application testing plus mobile testing, and TestArchitect Enterprise offers Windows, web, cloud and mobile testing capability and is completely customizable. TestArchitect Enterprise and TestArchitect Mobile Plus include support for iOS and Android phones and tablets, with both web and hybrid app testing capability for all testing needs, from mobile to desktop to cloud-based applications. Additional productivity-enhancing features include ...

Writing Well-Abstracted Self-Testing Automation

stmag — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:43:37 +0000

One of the biggest challenges in writing test automation scripts comes in keeping pace with the rapid changes of the application under test. One small “critical” change made by a dev at midnight can result in hours of painful investigation and test script repair for you the next morning(s). However, if you factor your tests properly you can write complex, reliable tests with only a few lines of code that not only test themselves using reflection, but also can be repaired in no time, and repurposed for other platforms. By factoring ...

Celtic Testing Experts Partners with Reflective Solutions

stmag — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:12:34 +0000

Celtic Testing Experts Inc, based in Georgia, USA, long-term software QA partner to some of the world’s largest companies, is expanding its range of QA services through a new initiative with load and performance testing specialist Reflective Solutions. As part of their commitment to reducing risk on IT projects while increasing the efficiency of QA processes, people and tools, Celtic Testing Experts has joined Reflective Solutions as a strategic partner. Having recognized how a specialist load and stress testing tool could complement their existing service offerings to clients, Celtic Testing Experts ...

Using Mock Objects in C#

stmag — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:18:47 +0000

When you need to perform unit testing in an independent way, you use mock objects. Mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. In this excerpt of their book “Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit”, Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas and Matt Hargett explain how to avoid coupling when you build your C# unit tests. Instead of testing against the real code, you can use a mock object that is kind of close to the real code but easier to work with for your ...

Typemock Releases Isolator V7.4 with Enhanced Visual Coverage

stmag — Fri, 31 May 2013 15:48:07 +0000

Typemock has announced the launch of Typemock Isolator V7.4 for .NET developers. The new Typemock Isolator V7.4 includes features that increase development productivity as well as enhance code quality: Visual coverage has been added so that all the information you need to unit test is at your fingertips. This enables programmers to detect and fix bugs quicker than ever. Developers no longer need to spend time sorting and searching for tests: the new and improved SmartRunner automatically sorts your tests for you, so that you see the relevant tests on the ...

How Twitter Does Performance Testing

stmag — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:51:01 +0000

James Waldrop of Twitter discusses the tools, process and philosophy that goes into performance testing at Twitter. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Iago open source load testing library, which he wrote to enable Twitter’s engineering teams to perform load tests before deploying code to production. This presentation dives into implementation details of some of these tests (including source code) and how complicating factors such as OAuth and arbitrary Thrift protocols are managed. Video producer: https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-conference/ Slides: http://goo.gl/9VY2b

Enterprise Tester 4.7 Integrates with Rally

stmag — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:49:37 +0000

Catch Software announced the release of Enterprise Tester 4.7. This latest edition introduces Rally integration for user stories, time-saving features for test planning and execution, and a JIRA 5+ (BETA) Plugin. Rally Integration – User Stories & Child User Stories Enterprise Tester 4.7 gives you the ability to integrate with Rally’s powerful agile project management software. This new functionality provides bi-directional synchronization of user stories and child user stories, so you can enjoy even more benefits. Time-saving Features for Test Planning & Execution This release also added some time-saving additions to existing functionality. You ...

Software Testing Company Cigniti Buys Gallop Solutions

stmag — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:02:36 +0000

Cigniti Technologies has announced today the acquisition of Gallop Solutions . The combined entity is poised to become the world’s third largest independent software testing services company with revenues of $40 Million and more than 800 people worldwide. Cigniti Technologies is one of the fast growing IT services companies in this space and aims to become the world leader in software testing in the next few years through a combination of organic and inorganic growth. Gallop specializes in building and implementing niche solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space with ...

New Version of Maximo Pack 3 for StressTester

stmag — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:43:25 +0000

Reflective Solutions is delighted to announce the availability of the newly released Maximo Pack 3 for StressTester™, which ensures that automating Maximo® performance testing is now as easy as testing the performance of any other web based application. The second version of the Maximo Pack went a long way to simplifying this process, handling 100% of the standard Maximo framework identifiers and session variables. However, following feedback from our partners and clients, it was clear that for highly configured/customized installations of Maximo, the Maximo Pack 2 did not completely remove the ...

dynaTrace AJAX Edition 4.1 Supports FF19, FF20 and IE10 on Windows

stmag — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:05:15 +0000

ompuware AJAX Edition 4.1 adds support for Firefox 19 and Firefox 20 as well as support for IE10 on Windows 7. The team also fixed some smaller stability issues users reported with Firefox. Compuware dynaTrace AJAX Edition enables you to continuously optimize your Web 2.0 applications. Use the free dynaTrace AJAX Edition to: * speed page load times using performance reports that analyze every visited page based on known best practices from Google, Yahoo! and Compuware * diagnose performance differences between Firefox and Internet Explorer versions of the same Web pages * improve ...

PHP Unit Testing with PHPUnit

stmag — Tue, 28 May 2013 17:08:27 +0000

PHPUnit is an open source unit testing software framework for software written in the PHP programming language. Created by Sebastian Bergmann, PHPUnit is one of the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck’s SUnit. This article will explore PHPUnit specifically as a way to introduce the basics of automated unit testing. You’ll need a basic grasp of the PHP programming language to proceed! Author: Kendrick Curtis, Stainless Software, http://www.stainless-software.com/ Introduction Unit testing is the process of testing discrete code objects – such as functions, classes or methods – by using either ...