Archive for the 'Testing' Category

Testing heuristics: MTT

From PowerShell for Testers:

Lately testing people have been talking about testing heuristics - tips, techniques, tactics, strategies for testing something. I have one that I call MTT. M - Mission T - Targets T - Tests

Do it: use ridiculously long test method names

At work I’m probably known by a couple people for writing riciculously long test name, so this post by Patrick Lightbody made me smile.

Unfortunately, Dan’s examples of test methods were rather weak - often the agiledox crowd uses really simplistic examples. So I thought I’d give some examples of some of my methods [...]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance Project

Microsoft has opened up the Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance Project on CodePlex. Looks like a good collection of articles and knowledge for Performance testing on the Windows/Team System platform.

Welcome to the patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance project Community site. The purpose of this project is to [...]

Testivus - Testing for the rest of us.

I am a believer in Testivus.

Developers need to take more responsibility for testing their code. But the majority of developers are not willing, nor ready, nor able to jump on the bandwagon of the more extreme and demanding developer testing movements such as Test Driven Development. Testivus is a proposed developer testing movement [...]

New Testing Blog: Testing on the Toilet by Google

We’re unveiling the public release of “Testing on the Toilet”: one of Google’s little secrets that has helped us to inspire our developers to write well-tested code. We write flyers about everything from dependency injection to code coverage, and then regularly plaster the bathrooms all over Google with each episode, almost 500 stalls [...]