Roy Osherove tells how his views have changed on several topics on .NET unit testing, such as: what is a unit? what isolation frameworks make sense? Property vs. Constructor Injection, things learned from the ruby world, and much more. Watch this video on http://www.techdays.ru/videos/6832.html

Cucumber.js is a version of Cucumber, the popular open source Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) tool, brought to your JavaScript stack. It runs on both Node.js and modern web browsers. This talk explains how to use Cucumber.js to test a realtime-web application, drawing on experiences in testing Dashku.com, and give the audience tools and tips for how [...]

You want to test your Chef cookbooks? Cool. Where do you start? In this talk, I’ll walk you through step-by-step the process for executing test-driven development on a cookbook. From real-time feedback with guard and terminal-notifier, to chefspec, fauxhai, and foodcritic, quickly learn how to apply both basic and advanced tests in your infrastructure. Video [...]

There are few topics hotter these days than Mobile Software Development. It seems like every company is rushing to release their own Mobile Application. But when it comes time to build that software they quickly learn that things are different. Many developers claim that it is very difficult to test drive the application and some [...]

This video discusses the differences between the Agile and traditional software development life cycle. It then presents what are the implications of Agile on the software testing activity. Watch this video on http://video.esri.com/watch/2402/software-testing-in-an-agile-world

“I am proud because of” is the opening line of three software testing professionals sharing this lightning talk session with test as its main theme. Martin Karlsson from Lundalogik will share how his company uses dogfooding for ensuring quality. Their administrative staff uses test versions of their own products in their daily work. Mattias Gustavsson [...]

Espresso is a new Android open source testing framework (not released yet) that lets you write concise, beautiful and reliable UI tests quickly. Developing a reliable Android test should be as quick and easy as pulling a shot of espresso. Unfortunately, with existing tools, it may feel more like making a double-shot-caramel-sauce-upside-down-si­ngle-whip-half-decaf-latte – confusing and [...]

Tom Gilb is interviewed on why, how and who should measure value in software testing after speaking at UNICOM’s 8th Next Generation Testing Conference. Video Producer: http://www.next-generation-testing.com

I have been a tester in an outsourced project, a test manager for an outsourced project, consultant to test teams that work on outsourced projects and now running a testing services business where our business and money comes from outsourced testing. I assure you, I am not going to talk about my company and this [...]

At Peoplefluent, we have trimmed our test maintenance overhead from ~40% to less than 3% by generating our Selenium Page objects at build-time. We use Java reflection to parse our (constantly changing) presentation layer, and generate these test artifacts, which map to our customer-facing product pages. This moves the conversation to the developer’s desk–when they [...]

These days all the enterprises are trying to reach out to end consumers through multiple channels so that they can reach out masses. By multiple channels we mean mobile, tablets, web etc. In this talk we will discuss about how behavior driven tools comes handy when we test such multichannel enterprise applications. How they can [...]

Automated functional tests provide valuable feedback to developers by notifying them when they break functionality. Additional value can be derived from the tests by providing fast feedback, as the problem is likely to be fresh in the developers mind and quicker to fix. A Typical functional test suite can take many hours to run because [...]

Testing UIs generated with JavaScript is a challenging task, and especially so on mobile devices. Since Siesta is designed to help you test Ext JS and Sencha Touch, it knows about the Sencha Touch infrastructure (stores, components, etc) which is essential to writing robust tests. Learn how to write a basic unit test, and continue [...]