... Mark, that's something I hadn't thought about as I've never used the record/playback form of testing with Abbot. I used it for TDDing the GUI, so the...
TFUIers: Ideally, when your developer tests call production code, it should not spew output to your STDOUT stream. If it must emit strings, it should return...
... Do your developers run the tests after every 1 to 10 edits, with the highest odds on 1? Do your developers prefer to revert when a test fails unexpectedly...
Just a question to the group - if you are looking to start automating testing, you may not have the opportunity to invest in automating all you would like to...
I think neither, but perhaps focus on problem forms (?) first. Actually, I would focus on new stories first, then problem forms second. I would work new...
[CCd to testfirstuserinterfaces@yahoogroups.com ] ... Study the source to Cairo (part of Gtk+). It uses a system called "golden master test". Each test case...
... Do your programmers run that after every edit? ... Asking the question another way - do your developers write any tests? ... Awesome! Now, can your...
... Consider a test T that calls A, which calls B. Sometimes, a B is cheap to assemble, so T can assemble B, activate A, and test that A did its thing. T...
... Two big points: - the first tier of tests must cover as many features as possible, and be super-fast to run - test cases must be as close as possible to...
... Then you are testing the GUI directly - the test case is close to the tested case. Then, if such a test fails (conceptually or literally), you fix it by...
TFUI: How many here are using XPath to test into HTML, to detect its generated details? I think the book /Working Effectively with Legacy Code/ would call that...
... Yes, there are actually quite a few people who do extensive TDD on Mac OS X using Cocoa and Xcode — it turns out that it's actually a great platform for...
This month at Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD), Dan and Llewellyn will teach us how to write Approval Tests. The meeting will take place at Cardinal Health...
This month at Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD), Dan and Llewellyn will teach us how to write Approval Tests. The meeting will take place at Cardinal Health...
... How many tests do you have that treat UI objects as objects? I mean unit-level tests that just assemble some GUI controls, activate the production code to ...
... To unit test Ajax, you must generally test that your business model has injected the correct data into the correct entry points in your Ajax library. Don't...
if you commented out this line (and any other line that squawks)... ... and printed out the mail's parts before asserting them... ... p mail.parts ...what...
... If you are using an off-the-shelf control, such as an edit field, you can TDD it by building its form, running production code to push data into it, then ...
... If you look up an MVC diagram, the Model only has inbound arrows. Or the equivalent. To TDD the Model you simply ignore the controllers and views, because...
Netizens: Crispin & Gregory's new book, /Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams/, has a kewt "mind map" at the start of each chapter. It...
I like the concept Phlip, and it's impressive you can achieve that much with so little code. It also looks like a very useful way of presenting a collection...
... It begins with M, making the title alliterative. I myself quarrel with the use of "Merb" in the title. There's almost no Merb in the content, and I only...
... So if you called it "Merb mind map" for alliteration, but Merb, mind, and map are all misused words.... :-) ... I just want to know if the problem is...
... Good idea! [reads] Okay, done. So you're building a minimum spanning tree of articles, using tag-difference as the metric, and setting the current article...
Alan, ... I think the original Buzan meaning wasn´t so limited as this. Basically, it´s a 2-D representation of something in your mind. So, it can be a...