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Qt and Java GUI Test Automation: Many Years of Squish Success at ARM Ltd.

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:24:21 GMT

Introduction

ARM Ltd., is a well-established company that designs the technology that lies at the heart of many advanced digital products. ARM's product offering includes RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals, and development tools.

We had the pleasure of discussing ARM's use of Squish with Dave Dextor, one of ARM's Staff Validation Engineers.

Should programming languages support unit testing natively?

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:14:17 GMT

http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000522.html

Roy Osherov's DWORD - don't miss it.

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:45:45 GMT

Roy's D-Word!

JetBrains releases YouTrack 1.0, keyboard-centric issue tracker

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:40:18 GMT

JetBrains has released its brand new bug and issue tracker, YouTrack 1.0!

YouTrack helps solve most issue-handling tasks with two simple, keyboard-driven controls: a search box and a command window.

YouTrack key features include:

* Issue reporting with a single shortcut from anywhere within the product.
* Query-based search with query completion and highlighting.
* Powerful commands to quickly modify multiple issues.
* Natural-language-like query and command syntax.
* Extensive keyboard support for creating, editing, and navigating between issues easily.
* AJAX-based user interface for extremely fast issue handling.
* Importing existing projects from JIRA 3.x.
* Integration with external tools, including LDAP, OpenID, and JetBrains TeamCity.

YouTrack 1.0 is available in two editions, Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition. Both editions sell at 50% off before the New Year.

Learn more and download YouTrack at JetBrains web site.

Automation support for Exploratory Testing

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:38:56 GMT

From http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/aa-ftt/ mailing list:

I attended Michael Bolton's session on exploratory testing a few years ago and it's fair to say it inspired me, even though my job duty specifically is as an automation guy. I built a series of Ruby modules to allow our exploratory testers to use the Ruby IRB, in combination with Watir, to make their exploratory testing more efficient.

Have there been any (or many) presentations specifically on this? I thought it might make a nice 40-minute presentation to show how you can create helper modules and have them auto-loaded when you load the watir-console, and then use them to help with ET. Some ways we've used a helper method for the watir-console are:

- Allowing the user to go to a specific spot in the web application by calling a single method.
- Calling a method with an integer as a parameter to tell it to do something multiple times
- Calling a method with a list as a parameter to send a collection of values to a method (such as creating users with specific names).

Anyway...does this sound like something that would be of value? Or too elementary? I'd love some feedback.

Thanks,

Jim

TestRail test management beta now available

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:44:24 GMT

A first beta version of Gurock Software's upcoming web-based test management tool TestRail is now available. TestRail is intended to help software development teams and quality assurance departments manage test cases, track test results and organize software testing efforts. Its modern web interface was designed to make it as easy as possible to enter test cases, organize test suites, coordinate test runs and track test results and progress.

Mockito in six easy examples

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:43:24 GMT

Mockito is a fantastic mock library for Java. Im fascinated by how easy it is to use, compared to other things out there both in the Java and .NET world. Here is everything you need to know to get started in six really easy examples:

http://gojko.net/2009/10/23/mockito-in-six-easy-examples/

Groovy Testing Sep2009 on SlideShare

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:43:05 GMT

http://www.slideshare.net/paulk_asert/groovy-testing-aug2009-1945995

Automated GUI Testing: Squish Success at Perforce Systems

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:18:33 GMT

Introduction

Perforce Software, founded in 1995, markets and supports Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system. Perforce is an award winning SCM system used to version and manage source code and all digital assets. Perforce SCM seamlessly handles distributed development and multi-platform environments and is used by more than 330,000 developers worldwide.

Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing

webmaster@testdriven.com (News) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:48:40 GMT

Another fantastic blog by Gojko Adzic Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing

Personally, I am leaning towards using the term "Executable Specifications" instead of Acceptance Testing. Note that Gojko mentions this specifically in item 4. Let me know what term you prefer at david@testdriven.com

Testing TV

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:39:16 GMT

Testing TV is a directory of software testing and software quality assurance videos and tutorials. It covers unit testing, functional testing, load testing, performance testing, test driven development. configuration management.

Software Test Autmation - Manual Testing

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:47:13 GMT

"If you are looking for a project-orientated functional testing tool and you test applications built using mainstream technologies, you may succeed more easily and get better value out of the Original tools than some of the market leaders.

Original Software's testing tools are typical in function and structure to most functional test suites. However, they have some key capabilities in the areas of manual testing, database verification and preparation that set them apart."

Paul Herzlich, Software Testing Tools Analyst, Ovum

Testing Dynamic Elements Having a Plan B

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:46:55 GMT

Duncan Thomas Blogs about how to handle Dynamic Elements with LiquidTest, In this blog post I will explain a small but important feature with an example. This feature is a small check box you see at the bottom of your browser when recording a test with LiquidTest, called Dynamic Element.

Testing and TDD for Java Developers

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:46:39 GMT

Developer testing practices are a vital, yet often under-used art. Learning how to write more effective tests is an excellent way to write better designed, more maintainable and more reliable code. It also helps keep development focused on the real requirements, resulting in a higher quality product for the end user. This is a skill that every Java developer needs to master.

This course is an intensive 2-day workshop with a mixture of teaching and lab exercises. You will learn about modern Agile testing best practices such as Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development, and how to apply them in your own projects. You will gain practical experience with the latest in open source testing tools, including JUnit 4.7, Groovy, Selenium, SoapUI, and JOLT-Award winner easyb. You will also learn how to refactor code, and how to use code coverage and code quality tools such as Cobertura to isolate poor quality or poorly-tested code. The basic course program is outlined here:
- Principles of Test-driven development and Behaviour-Driven Development
- Understanding the TDD lifecycle
- Agile testing practices
- Modern unit testing techniques with JUnit 4.x
- Writing clearer tests with the Hamcrest assertions
- Using annotations, parameterized tests and JUnit Theories to simplify your tests
- Writing more productive unit tests in Groovy
- Unit and Integration testing
- Using mock objects and stubs with Mockito
- Database testing with DBUnit
- Testing Spring applications
- Behaviour-Driven Development with easyb
- Automating the testing process
- Using test coverage metrics to improve your testing process
- Testing a web interface with Selenium and JWebUnit
- Continuous Testing in Eclipse with Infinitest

TestRail Test Management

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:20:19 GMT

TestRail is a comprehensive web-based test case management software to efficiently manage, track and organize your software testing efforts.

Coding and Testing: Testers and Programmers Working Together

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:20:12 GMT

The idea of driving development with tests has been popularized by the agile development movement. The fact is that testing and coding are inseparable components of software development. We get the best results with testers and programmers work closely together. How can we deliver real value to the business frequently? How can we know how much testing is enough? Lets look at how testers and programmers collaborate to produce high-quality software.

TDD - FDD - BDD Why not PDD?

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:20:03 GMT

This article takes the form of a tale to explain the differences between the different "driven development" approaches... and makes us think why there are so many of them?

Responsibility Driven Design with Mock Objects

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:19:52 GMT

Responsibility driven design is an approach that helps you shift focus from object state to interactions and responsibilities. This article shows how test driven development with mock objects facilitates responsibility driven design and drives you towards a more cohesive, loosely coupled design. Examples in Java.

Coverity -Static analysis, software quality for C, C plus plus, Java

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:31:58 GMT

Coverity's Static source code analysis allows organizations to find & fix defects at the earliest stage in the software development life cycle, saving millions of dollars in associated costs.

Ranorex - Automated Testing of GUI & Web Applications

webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:37 GMT

Ranorex 2 is a Windows GUI test automation framework for testing many different application types including Web 2.0 applications, Win32, MFC, WPF, Flash/Flex, .NET and Java (SWT).

Avoids proprietary scripting languages and instead enables use of the functionalities of programming languages like Python or C# as a base and expand on it with its GUI automation functionality.

The Ranorex Spy tool allows users to explore and analyze host or web applications. Ranorex object repositories and repository browser enables separation of test automation code/recordings from RanoreXPath identification information. The IDE includes test project management, integration of all Ranorex tools (Recorder, Repository, Spy), intuitive code editor, code completion, debugging, and watch monitor.

Download Ranorex