Dave Hoover demonstrates how to use Watir with Cucumber. Actually, he uses his own library SafariWatir, but you could easily swap it with Watir, FireWatir, ChromeWatir or Celerity. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language …
Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we …
Modern software pervasively uses structurally complex data, for example web-traversal code operates on graphs that encode web pages, and IDEs manipulate program representations such as abstract syntax trees. The standard approach to generating test suites for such software, manual generation of the inputs in the suite, is tedious and error-prone. …
In this episode we will take a look at how you can test your routes in an MVC application. We willl start the process of creating new functionality for our application in this episode by showing how to create the tests for the routes first by using MvcContrib project. In …
Various quick talks on Selenium from its developers and friends. Where it is going, what is the best practice for using it. The complete list of speakers and details can be found on http://ria.dzone.com/news/notes-inaugural-selenium-user- [youtube EDb8yOM3Vpw] Selenium Home Page
Model-based testing can help to reduce the cost of testing and increase its effectiveness. Instead of designing test cases by hand, model-based testing allows a test engineer to automatically generate test cases from a model of the system under test. After a brief overview of model-based testing, this talk will …
