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Serious Acceptance Checking Matthew Heusser goes beyond trivial examples to talk about the tradeoffs and ancillary benefits of a large-scale acceptance check automation strategy.
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Decrease Your Debt with Technical Debt Sprints Technical debt is one of the primary impediments to long-term software product success. Every team feels the pressure to deliver value frequently to the business. At the same time, we know that we need to keep our code clean and supported by tests to operate at a sustainable pace. Regular technical debt sprints are one way to make our “interest payments.”
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My Experience with Test-Driven Development Vinay Krishna explains why agile development includes testing and coding concurrently, which is also what test-driven development emphasizes. The transformation from coder to developer to tester is needed in all agile software development projects.
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Writing Good Test Cases We all know writing test cases is an integral part of the testing activity. In order to write good test cases, we must first understand what a test case is and why we need to write test cases. Can’t we live without writing test cases?
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Career Paths for Testers Using Personas A lack of inspiration in the workplace can leave you lost at sea, reaching for any scrap of driftwood. On the other hand, having an effective role model can make you a better-prepared and more successful tester. In this article, Alan Page offers an alternative to real-life role models in the form of tester personas, which can help guide you and your team along the right career path.
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Fuzzing Through the Side Door Fuzz testing, or "fuzzing,” is an approach to test automation that attempts to uncover weaknesses in a system using tool-generated data. In this article, Jonathan Kohl recounts how he used this technique on a published web services interface to test “through the side door”—those testable, in-between areas like messaging APIs.
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Transitioning to Agile Testing Your developers are already working feature-by-feature in iterations, but your testers are stuck with manual tests. How do you make the leap to agile testing when the nature of agile's iterative releases challenges testers to test working segments of a product instead of the complete package? In this column, Johanna Rothman explains that the key challenge resides in bringing the whole team together to work towards the completion of an iteration. Only then will the testers—and the entire team—know how to transition to agile.
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Tips to Overcome Test Automation Challenges In her recent StickyMinds.com column, "Fool Me Once," Linda Hayes took a look at the difficulties encountered by those who dove into automated testing early on, only to be bitten by the record/replay shark. In this follow-up column, she offers some solutions to those who still struggle with making test automation successful.
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XXX Automation In this article, Dion Johnson takes a peek at an automation approach that isn't for the immature or the inexperienced. It is, however, for testers interesting in improving their scripting technique. But don't let the title fool you—you can use Dion's "XML, XPath, and Xcitement" approach in broad daylight.
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New Year, New Level: What's Next in Automation Sometimes we get so focused on solving the problem in front of us that it doesn't occur to us to ask if we are solving the right problem. Linda Hayes finds that starting a new year makes her think less about what has been and more about what could be. In this column, she offers her thoughts on the validity of the way we approach the most variable of all factors: the user.
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