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- Category: Testing
- Founded: Sep 28, 2007
- Language: English
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This discussion group is for discussions related to advances in functional testing tools for Agile projects.
Automated functional testing is an integral and essential part of Agile development. Many Agile teams use functional tests to codify the system requirements. Some also practice Acceptance Test Driven Development.
Agile teams have particular needs for automated tools that are not well served by traditional record-and-playback GUI drivers. As requirements specifications, functional tests must be readable: clear, succinct, and expressed in the language of the business domain. As an automated safety net, the tests must be maintainable: built with reusable domain specific testing language components, easy to change as the requirements change.
The good news is that tool support for automated functional tests has grown significantly in recent years. There is a large variety of commercial and open source testing tools/frameworks available that support Agile development practices. The FIT framework was a significant boost to the state of the art of automated functional testing, both in terms of the syntax of the specification (tables), the detailed test execution feedback (cell by cell), and the development/execution environment (desktop tools rather than development or specialized tools).
However, we believe that it’s time for another significant boost to the state of the art. We'll discuss those advances here.
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Re: Entry-level tools
David -- I learned lots in school. Most of what we consider traditional computer science was still fresh then and it was fun to see order form over the obvious
Posted - Fri May 9, 2008 3:26 pm
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Ward Cunningham
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Re: Entry-level tools
... I'm not sure what I want --- I know that having nothing in a portal to help with QA is not helpful (kind of a tautology, that :-), and ... I didn't know
Posted - Thu May 8, 2008 12:25 pm
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Greg Wilson
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Re: Entry-level tools
... I have had zero success finding "one test tool to rule them all; one test tool to bind them." Worksoft Certify is a keyword driven test tool that will
Posted - Thu May 8, 2008 12:14 pm
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Re: Entry-level tools
... It looks interesting, but is it purely for GUI applications? Again, I'm wondering what should be integrated into a portal to help manage (track, execute,
Posted - Wed May 7, 2008 3:47 pm
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Greg Wilson
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Re: Entry-level tools
... I worked with Adam for several years; he's the one who suggested I ask the list :-) ... Our students all learn JUnit; I'm wondering what could be added to
Posted - Wed May 7, 2008 3:38 pm
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Greg Wilson
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