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The pernicious effect of having a separate testing team: How Big Tech does Quality Assurance (QA) - by Gergely Orosz The change in the number and type of tests the Visual Studio Team Services experienced after merging the dev and the test teams. Before the merge: end-to-end tests dominated, but unit and integration tests were rare. This flipped after the merge. (Microsoft Dev Blogs) In 2 years, almost all “old” tests from when test was separate from dev, were gone....

The exponential horn of testing · GitHub The actual model that more closely resembles what we need should have the bare minimum of E2E tests, quite a number of service tests and the vast majority should be unit tests. Exponential model: x = 10^hy So if the height h goes from 1 to 2 to 3 then we have 1 E2E test to 100 service tests to 10,000 unit tests....

JSON Generator – tool for generating random JSON data We’ve all faced the problem of lack of information in our app. All interfaces seem lifeless and empty. Debugging with no data is also not simple. I think that each of us has at least once in their lives created a bunch of files with JSON data, but they were just one object propagated without unique fields. JSON Generator was created in order to help with this....

Lookback – See how people really use your apps! See how people really use your app. Lookback makes user experience collecting a breeze. Record remotely with your iOS app — no equipment needed See the screen, gestures, face & voice of your test users. Install once. Lookback all the time.

Mocks Aren’t Stubs Meszaros uses the term Test Double as the generic term for any kind of pretend object used in place of a real object for testing purposes. The name comes from the notion of a Stunt Double in movies. (…) Meszaros then defined four particular kinds of double: Dummy objects are passed around but never actually used. Usually they are just used to fill parameter lists. Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production (an in memory database is a good example)....

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Cucumber – Making BDD fun Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.

pathod pathod is a pathological HTTP/S daemon, useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. (…) The simplest way to use pathod is to fire up the daemon, and specify the response behaviour you want using this language in the request URL.

browserling – interactive cross-browser testing We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by and javascript.

xScope Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

The software is wrong, not the people. Matt Mullenweg (vai Joe Flood )