Agile software testing
The starting point of all Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to running services, how Agile can you be? The definition of ’shipping’ software has changed dramatically in the last decade. …
Recently, in the Rails community, there has been an upsurge of interest in testing. For instance, in the past year alone, we’ve seen the introduction of a bevy of new testing-related gems (i.e. context, cucumber, factory_girl, remarkable, webrat, etc.). These are all good things. And yet do we still see …
In this episode we are going to continue our series on learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests. We will focus our learning this time around on the various ways you can setup and validate expectations on your stubs/fakes. …
In this episode we are going to start learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests. We will start off our learning experience by learning the basics. We will be taking a look at how to setup stubs/fakes in order …
In this episode we will continue our series on how to create a build script using the NAnt build tool. In this episode we will take a look at how to add in the ability to run the MSTest testing engine via our scripts to run our MSTest unit tests. …
This is a demo of how I’d like to be able to do Behaviour-driven development (from the outside-in) on Ubuntu using stories and automated testing. The story-part is already possible with cucumber – but it’d be nice to be able to use Python right? And the automated testing would use …
