Getting started with veewee and vagrant
What do you need to do to get a fully automated kickstart of a virtual machine on your local development platform running? Not much it turns out. There are some tricks to get…
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Cucumber-jvm for Java
In an earlier article I compared cucumber (with Cuke4Duke) and Concordion. It was very cumbersome due to the ruby/jruby jvm chain. Behold - the new cucumber-jvm was released. So…
One assert per test, really
Recently I was debugging my code and I could not see why my test was failing. It took me about 20 minutes to see that I violated one rule I try to follow. One assert per test .…
Using Selenium2 for web testing (and not Selenium IDE)
Selenium IDE Selenium is well know for automatic testing web pages. It does support many browsers, operating systems and languages . A Selenium IDE exists to aid you creating…
Concordion vs. Cucumber and Java based Acceptance Testing
If you want your Business Analyst to provide some acceptance tests for your implementation it would be best to make sure you get it in some form your tests can read. That way you…
4 ways to test your code
Whenever you write some code you better make sure you have it covered by some tests. There are different possibilities on how to achieve this (and you might want to use all of…
Update on Quant TestTester
Here is a small update on my little fun project. I released version 0.2 of quant. Now it will recognize all TestNG annotations which do not have a TestNG group (like @BeforeMethod,…
Quant - Check your Tests
Did you ever wondered if all tests your team wrote are really running ? How many disabled tests does your code base have? How many public void methods do not have a @Test…
How to test Spring Webflow 2 (with parent flows)
In the last couple of month I was writing some flows using Spring Webflow 2. I knew that I (in theory) I could test them but I never did. The overall documentation of Webflow 2 is…
Using TestNG with DataProviders to cover more test cases
A couple of days ago I had the case that I needed to test a method with different parameters. I ended up writing a couple of test methods differing only in passing various…
Three reasons why you don't want to use a Spring context in unit tests
You use Spring in your application everywhere. You love it. Everything gets injected and is configured by Spring. Great. Why not use the same technology to wire up your tests? The…