Category Archives: testing

Cucumber, A Brief Overview

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Cucumber I’ve found Cucumber to be a pretty nice way of doing high level acceptance/integration testing. It’s also the first time I’ve ever thought that ATDD (acceptance test driven development) is actually achievable. The idea is that you write your … Continue reading →

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The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Rails Deployment & Testing There are some really nice tools available for deployment and testing rails. Below is a brief description of some of the ones I’ve been using with success. Capistrano I remember in the early days of my … Continue reading →

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Testing assumptions with preconditions

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

While driving design with unit tests, I often break behaviors out into separate classes, both to increase cohesion, and as a side effect, increase testability.  Occasionally, I run into situations where I have some sort of environmental variable that never … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing [Serializable]

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

A common struggle with unit testing is figuring when to just assume somebody else’s code works. One such example is serializability: for simple classes, it should “just work” so we shouldn’t need to write a unit test for each of … Continue reading →

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Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing In C# with NUnit (2nd Edition)

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve written hundreds of tests, read dozens of articles and listened to several presentations on unit testing, but until recently had never actually read a book dedicated to the subject. In reviewing my options, I was told repeatedly that I … Continue reading →

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Debug It!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Chris Missal

If there’s one thing I like about programming computers, it’s the ability to tell a machine exactly what to do. –insert Skynet reference here– With that said, I wanted to learn some more tips, tricks and techniques to figure out … Continue reading →

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Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Chris Missal

  Today when modifying what we call an “order notifier” (essentially observers that are notified when an order is placed), I was having trouble figuring out why my test was failing. The project is written in C# and this test … Continue reading →

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Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Chris Missal

Some time ago, I noticed a CruiseControl.Net build report with thousands of unit tests passed, zero failed and a dozen or so skipped, suddenly showing that no tests were run: I immediately thought somebody did something really bad. After some … Continue reading →

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How I Approach a Defect

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Chris Missal

Lately I’ve been tracking some of the steps I go through in a given day or week. I was fixing a bug the other day when I decided that I should write down all the mental notes I refer to … Continue reading →

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HTTP Error Codes in WatiN 1.3

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

One of the biggest surprises when I started working with WatiN was the omission of a mechanism to check for error conditions. A partial solution using a subclass has been posted before, but it doesn’t quite cover all the bases. … Continue reading →

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