The opening keynote of the Google Test Automation Conference 2011 was presented by Alberto Savoia, Director of Engineering at Google who discusses the proposition that software testing is dead. He suggest that software testers should shift their mindset from “Are we building it right?” to “Are we building the right it?”. The idea that it is more important to have a context where the right software product is developed, instead of setting quality procedures that verify the product at the end.
.NET Mocking Frameworks
October 31, 2011Dependencies management is a difficult part of test-driven development (TDD). Mocks and stubs are created to isolate the behavior we would like to test. The article “The Art of Mocking” is a good introduction on this topic. Creating all these testing classes by hand can lead to troubles, but several open source tools to apply mocking principles in .NET. Tools like Rhino Mocks and Moq allow us to create mocks and stubs within our test method. The Mocking Frameworks in .NET video presents techniques that can automate your unit testing process.
Load Testing Automation
September 13, 2011The article “Scenarios for Load Testing” by Christopher Merrill discusses how to build a portfolio of scenarios to automate your software load testing activity. You have rarely only a single scenario to test, so you have to decide which scenarios to include in your test plans. Criticality, frequency, difficulty and verifiability are the four key factors that should be considered to determine the load testing scenarios to automate.
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