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Automated Testing is Cancer

One trend is slowly destroying our industry: the requirement of automated testing on the code we write. This madness goes from writing tests before the code...

9 replies - 15985 views - 04/01/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 312 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/7/13)

It's Better to Have Someone Else Copyedit Text, and It's Better to Have Others Test Your Code   Andrew Wulf shares wisdom about testing - it's not...

0 replies - 3133 views - 02/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 349 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Baby Steps to Backbone.js: Unit Testing of Models

Unit testing is important part of development process. If you care about the application state and code quality, sooner or later you start to automate the...

0 replies - 2185 views - 12/03/12 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

Unit Testing your JavaScript

 According to John Resig and Bear Bibeault 48% of JavaScript developement (see chapter 2, Secrets of the Java Script Ninja) do not test.  The...

0 replies - 514 views - 11/21/12 by Alex Staveley in Articles

The perils of long-running test suites

Long-running test suites take more than N minutes to run on an ordinary development machine, where N is in a range from 5 to 20-30, depending on your...

0 replies - 2058 views - 10/24/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Don't overspecify your mocks

Behavior-based verification is opposed to state-based verification in the fact that its assertion aren't performed on the values and objects returned by the...

0 replies - 2426 views - 10/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Jasmine - An Introduction

This page is the result of taking notes from the session about Jasmine by Davis W. Frank at this years Fluent Conference in San Francisco. Unfortunately I...

0 replies - 1008 views - 10/08/12 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles

Errors: part of the learning curve

The learning curve of a programming language also consists of its errors (and exceptions), not only of its features. Often we are tempted to estimate a task...

0 replies - 3100 views - 09/17/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Using Guard + PHPUnit for Great Good!

Another day, another post about the tooling I’ve been using to make PHP development bearable. Today I’ll share guard-phpunit, which I discovered thanks to...

0 replies - 888 views - 09/16/12 by James Carr in Articles

A Pony Debugger for Princess Coders

So there you were, squealing, “Daddy, I want a Pony for my debugging!” Now look what those super helpful folks over at Square have come up with for...

0 replies - 2512 views - 09/06/12 by Alex Curylo in Articles

Manual Test-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development is a code-level practice, based on running automated tests that are written before the production code they exercise. But practices can...

0 replies - 2597 views - 09/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

How to Take Unit Testing (and Test-Driving) Seriously

So we write some test code, then make it pass, and restart. If we have still some minutes in the current Pomodoro, let's refactor a bit and extract some...

0 replies - 11401 views - 08/22/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Should Load Testing be Done on Emulated or Real Browsers?

Enterprise applications are typically tested for load, performance and scalability using a driver that emulates a real client by sending requests to the...

1 replies - 2160 views - 06/19/12 by Shanti Subramanyam in Articles