Java brought the “Write once, run anywhere” (WORA) promise. In the last years a new idea sprung to life “Package once deploy anywhere” (PODA). Containers have proven to be versatile and powerful tools, that provide a clean separation of concerns. Wield them during development, testing and deployment.
Failure Testing prepares us, both socially and technically, for how our systems will behave in the face of failure. By proactively testing, we can find and fix problems before they become crises. Practice makes perfect, yet a real calamity is not a good time for training. Knowing how our systems …
This talk gives you an introduction and demos of some tools (Kali, Backbox, Metasploit, BeEF) that can be used for security testing. You will learn how they can be used to get through your defenses. It is more a massive demo than a talk, as well as an exploration of …
Stop trying to be a computer; you are a human! You know what humans are good at? Storytelling. As a software tester or developer, you should stop trying to write tests just to get a green test suite, and start telling rich, descriptive stories. Once you have a good story, …
Do your product owners, designers and the people that pay you understand what in the world your Espresso tests are doing and why they are valuable? You’ve spent so much time and effort writing these tests and your whole team deserves to get the most benefit out of them. Learn …
Spun off of the eXtreme Programming movement, Test Driven Development (TDD) has taken the software industry by storm. From a highly controversial Agile testing approach, TDD has become a ubiquitous industry practice and the poster child of software engineering maturity. But is it all it is cracked up to be?
