Testing

OO Design for Testability

 We design our code for performance, maintenance, simplicity, extensibility and other goals, but most of us do not think about testability as a design...

0 replies - 2648 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

ScalaTest 1.0 Release "A Path Forward" to Scala

Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala.  The...

0 replies - 2855 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Holistic Agility: Thoughtworks Studios' Cyndi Mitchell

In this interview, recorded at the Agile 2009 Conference, Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios, discusses the company's new Adaptive ALM...

0 replies - 3211 views - 09/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Parasoft's New Testing Framework Tackles the SOA Lifecycle

Parasoft recently unveiled the latest release of its SOA Quality Solution, an end-to-end, automated testing framework for SOA applications. The framework...

1 replies - 1204 views - 05/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Agile Adoption Refcard for Decreasing Time to Market Available for Download

What is Agile? Do you have the right agile practices for your team? This Refcard focuses on choosing the right agile practices for your team or organization...

3 replies - 10194 views - 03/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...

1 replies - 3838 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Writing good code requires you to perform experiments

How often do you have to solve a small problem that is a part of a larger project and decide to take the time to perform some seperate experiments to solve the...

12 replies - 5690 views - 03/05/09 by Confusion09 in News

Coverity Architecture Analyzer Improves 'Software DNA'

Coverity, Inc., a provider of static source code analysis tools, today unveiled Coverity Architecture Analyzer, providing development teams with the ability to...

0 replies - 2167 views - 11/17/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?

Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has...

0 replies - 973 views - 11/04/08 by kpanghmc in Articles

Is Code Coverage Important?

How much code coverage is enough? Do you consider having 100% code coverage an uphill task? Based on whom you talk to, the reply you get varies considerably. I...

20 replies - 5721 views - 10/20/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

A Simple Manual Mock Example

Creating and using a mock object is semantically very much like using a stub, except that a mock will do a little more than a stub - it will save the history...

0 replies - 4593 views - 10/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The Undercover Adventure (Part 3): Sometimes it’s like trying to appreciate the “squareness” of a peg with round thinking.

When I initially started at the mine around 3 months ago I never anticipated that this industry would have as many acronyms as the IT industry. I was wrong. My...

2 replies - 2420 views - 07/29/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.

I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in front of...

6 replies - 2664 views - 07/21/08 by AnneBotha in Articles