Pinboard: bookmarks for threedaymonk tagged 'testing'

‘MyTAP is a unit testing framework for MySQL 5.x written using fuctions and procedures. It includes a collection of TAP-emitting assertion functions, as well as the ability to integrate with other TAP-emitting test frameworks.’

mysql testing tdd tap database
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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ASCIIcasts - “Episode 156 - Webrat”

Browser-driven integration tests for Rails without Cucumber.

ruby rails testing webdev tdd
january 2010 by threedaymonk

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Testing WordPress with Cucumber
wordpress cucumber testing tdd ruby php
november 2009 by threedaymonk

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Continuous Integration Spring Cleaning

A round-up of the current options from the guys at GitHub.

ruby programming github git testing continuous-integration
september 2009 by threedaymonk

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Testing Sphinx with Cucumber

A method that doesn’t slow down the non-Sphinx features.

ruby rails sphinx cucumber tdd testing
september 2009 by threedaymonk

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Testing outbound emails with Cucumber
ruby rails testing cucumber tdd howto
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Cucumber scenarios that depend on Sphinx
ruby rails cucumber sphinx thinkingsphinx search testing tdd
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Colorize Test::Unit result
ruby testing console tdd
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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FakeWeb

‘FakeWeb is a helper for faking web requests in Ruby. It works at a global level, without modifying code or writing extensive stubs.’ Quick and easy way to prevent HTTP requests in tests.

ruby http tdd testing
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Mixing Cucumber with Test::Unit/Shoulda

Like Cucumber? Dislike RSpec?

ruby rails testing tdd cucumber
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Testing Fragment Caching

‘Fragment caching can be tricky. The risk is that a user sees the wrong content, but that risk can be mitigated with tests.’

ruby rails testing tdd caching performance
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Smells of Testing (signs your tests are bad)
ruby programming testing tdd
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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TDD Anti-Patterns

Funny. And true. I’ve seen most of these.

programming testing tdd agile antipatterns
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Integrity

‘The easy and fun automated continuous integration server’

testing ci ruby git
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Cucumber

Despite initially dismissing it as COBOL for Testing, I’m coming round to the idea of Cucumber: I sense that decoupling test intention from implementation may be the biggest win.

cucumber tdd bdd ruby testing
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Celerity

‘Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support.’

testing ruby java javascript html webdev automation
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Voluntary Technical Debt

‘If we hadn't taken on the technical debt, we would have missed our demo opportunity.’

programming software testing tdd
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Anecdote Driven Development, or Why I Don't Do TDD
programming testing perl
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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faker

Generate fake names, addresses, phone numbers, corporate BS (really!) etc. from Ruby.

ruby testing dummy data
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Stop Net::HTTP dead in its tracks with fakeweb
ruby testing mocking http network
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Reminder Tests
ruby testing
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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Functional Programming Unit Testing - Part 1

Series on testing in Haskell (with some F# too).

programming haskell testing fp tdd
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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A test server for Rails applications

Obviate the need for loading up the huge environment each time you run a test.

ruby rails testing webdev
november 2008 by threedaymonk

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A critical look at the current state of Ruby testing

‘All this energy on creating new DSLs for testing is energy wasted. Use the standard and get cracking on solving truly innovative problems (note: the smart grid is innovative; social networks are not).’ Strongly agree.

ruby tdd rspec testing
november 2008 by threedaymonk

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