How Wikipedia is Tested
The software that runs Wikipedia, MediaWiki, is developed in the open just like Wikipedia itself. This talk will cover how MediaWiki is tested, along with mistakes and successes made along the way.
Next Level Mobile Applications Testing
Mobile tests today can be automated by popular mobile testing frameworks in Java such as monkeyrunner, Sikuli, and Robotium. However, getting mobile tests running in continuous integration is not widely understood and rarely implemented.
Front-end Testing for Skeptics
Paul Graham once quipped that “Web 2.0” really meant “JavaScript now works”. Nearly ten years later, more and more functionality of our web applications is written in JavaScript. But for those of us who came of age when JavaScript was unreliable, it’s been preferable to test the server-side, while leaving …
Unit Testing and Code Clone Analysis with VS2012
Learn how unit testing is being completely revamped in VS2012. By making the unit testing engine in VS extensible, VS2012 will open the door for 3rd party unit testing adapters such as NUnit and xUnit.net.
Testing Event-Driven Programs
Testing strategies are well understood and established in traditional OO and/or functional settings. The same is not true for asynchronous, event-driven paradigms such as the actor model, in which the timing and execution context of assertions is important and temporal relations between generated events become test objectives.
How Facebook Tests Facebook on Android
Learn what Facebook does to ensure that each release is as good as it can be. We’ll cover everything from how we manage our code, through our approaches to testing and all the way out to dogfooding.