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After years of being immersed in Java development, I must admit that I got spoiled by its strong and mature ecosystem. Hence, whenever I want to pick up a new technology or programming language the following must be there: class StudentScoreService { private StudentRepository studentRepository ...

If you have ever practiced test driven development (TDD), then you are probably familiar with the TDD mantra – red, green, refactor. I’m a big proponent of TDD, but I think the TDD mantra is missing a fourth step. In his book that introduced me to TDD, Test Driven Development: By...

I had the opportunity to present at the eleventh Iowa Code Camp on June 8, 2013.  The title of my presentation was "Easy Acceptance Testing." The purpose of the presentation was to discuss an acceptance testing framework that Source Allies, Inc. developed for a partner while working on a large...

Beanoh.NET, pronounced 'beanˌō dot net, is a simple open source tool for verifying your Spring.NET context. Teams that leverage Beanoh spend less time focusing on configuring Spring.NET and more time adding business value.  Beanoh.NET is the .NET cousin of the Java version called Beanoh. You can install Beanoh.NET to your project...

Once you catch the automated testing itch you want to write test for everything. But should we use the same strategy for every piece of software? The conclusion that I've come to is no. While I'm completely committed to the practice of TDD and aggressive test coverage,...

One of our partners suffered from this very issue. Due to environmental constraints they could not run automated, in-container tests that would have identified misconfigured beans. After repeatedly committing stupid configuration mistakes, I decided that I would write a Spring wiring test. As I began to write this I encountered...

With Mockito 1.8.3 or higher you can significantly reduce your test code setup. Here is the code before. public class MockitoTest { private EmailFactory emailFactory; private Notifier notifier; private Emailer emailer; private Email email; @Before public void setUp(){ ...

In Part I we covered All examples will use the sample site https://sites.google.com/site/example4selenium/. <li>You can verify your XPath by clicking the 'Find' button. The element will be highlighted in the browser with flashing neon green if it exists.</li> <li>If you want to select elements by position, you may want the following information....

Selenium IDE is a free Firefox plugin that leverages javascript to record automated test scripts. In this first tutorial we will install Selenium IDE and create a basic test script. The next tutorial will cover more advanced topics. I primarily use Selenium IDE in three areas: <li>Click the 'Results' link.</li> <li>Right-click and...

Transactions are an essential component in enterprise software development. When your application works properly you rarely think about transactions. However, when things go wrong debugging transactions can be quite challenging. Instead of being reactive we need to proactively test our transactions. When I first got into the software...