Misko Hevery made a presentation at Google Tech Talks about unit testing. He tells us that “There is no secret to writing tests… … there are only secrets to writing testable code!”. He describes the different category of tests and shows the importance of unit testing. He describes how to …
I recently sat down with James Whittaker who is a Principal Program Manager Architect on the Visual Studio Team System Test Edition team. James is tasked with helping to shape the next wave of testing tools coming out of the Visual Studio Team System family of products. And since software …
This presentation will show how to transform a Ruby application without tests into a well-spec’d (via rspec) system with good test coverage. The presentation teaches how to write “characterization tests” for Ruby systems, how to convert characterization tests into normal specifications, and how to refactor and add new functionality to …
Joseph Smarr is the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc., where he’s led the engineering of Plaxo’s address-book integration application. In the course of building Plaxo 3.0, which involved an ambitious foray into rich internet application design, Joseph and learned a host of lessons about the importance of performance and …
Steve Souders is Yahoo’s chief guru in the art and science of web performance and the author of the YSlow plugin for Firebug; he is the author of High Performance Web Sites, a forthcoming title from O’Reilly (bonus points if you can guess which animal O’Reilly’s editors chose for the …
The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in New York on August 23 and 24, 2007. Presentation on Functional Testing Swing Applications with Frankenstein, an Open Source testing tool that he co-authored. Vivek Prahlad is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks. He currently heads the Innovation and Open Source related …
