Category Archives: Testing

Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I tweeted this a few minutes ago: This is in reference to a horrible test that I wrote today. It’s got 2 assertions and more than 20 lines of context to set up the mocks that I needed, to isolate … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper Tests Made Simple

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Chris Missal

I work primarily on a C# ASP.NET MVC application that deals with many other systems which seem to dish out strings all over the place. Hence the need for something like AutoMapper. When converting this data into objects or enumerations, … Continue reading →

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Verifying Generated HTML With HAML, Cucumber, Capybara and RSpec

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Several of the reports that the app that Joey and I are working on will be generated via HAML to be displayed in the app, for the users. The generated content will end up being HTML, but starts it’s life … Continue reading →

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A Semi-Intelligent Watchr Script For Rails And RSpec

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’m using Watchr in my current Rails 3 project, instead of Autotest, to run my Cucumber and RSpec tests whenever I save a file. It makes life so much easier than having to manually run them. Yesterday, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Web Development Stack In OSX

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Derick Bailey

It has been almost a month since I ventured out into contracting and took up OSX on a Macbook Pro as my primary operating system. In that time, I’ve been very fortunate to have Joey Beninghove guide me through the … Continue reading →

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The case against Interfaces in TDD

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Mark Ploeh has an interesting post about interfaces in TDD – that interfaces aren’t necessarily abstractions.  That’s certainly true.   Interfaces don’t guarantee we’re actually following SOLID design principles.  In fact, the whole idea of the typical repository pattern in a … Continue reading →

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Cost vs. Risk In Testing

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Derick Bailey

There was a bit of interesting discussion on twitter this morning, concerning the cost of test-first vs. risk. Here’s the visual version of what I’m saying: The premise behind the value of test-first is that we will wash out (or … Continue reading →

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Five rules for writing effective UI tests

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

For about 3 years, I wrote absolutely horrible UI tests.  These tests worked great for a while, but like most people that tried their hands at UI tests, found them to be utterly brittle and unmaintainable in the face of … Continue reading →

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An effective testing strategy

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

On a recent large project, we had a goal early on that we didn’t want to have a lot of QA folks manually testing our software.  Finding bugs through manual testing is incredibly time consuming and expensive, so we opted … Continue reading →

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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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