Archive for the ‘ Software Testing ’ Category

Cowboy Coders

Despite being from Texas, I’m not a cowgal coder, but this cartoon made me laugh out loud the minute I read it: Tweet This Post[ READ MORE ]

Test more preach less

For the past three years I’ve been trying to emphasize and build unit tests at Mint.com.  I’ve tried TDD and some other approaches but nothing has kept up pace with an agile-like speed of development.  The article  Is Unit Testing Doomed? talks about the issues that developers have today with all the different philosophies of [ READ MORE ]

Trade-offs in Unit Testing – Part II Stubs

After spending a couple days implementing test cases using Mock objects, I switched to testing using stubs, because I still needed to verify the functionality of the code. It took me only a few hours to write the test cases I needed using stubs, and with and IDE it’s even easier. But I don’t think its [ READ MORE ]

Trade-offs in Unit Testing – Part III Stub Objects

I understand that no one likes to write test cases. For most developers its tied with debugging as their least favorite activity, because they just want to focus on algorithms, and writing code; thats the fun stuff. But I don’t think developers understand the importance of writing test cases. The more test cases you write [ READ MORE ]

Part II – Trade-off to using Mock Objects

I spent a week testing the security framework at Mint.  I chose Mock objects as the methodology for testing because I wanted to test that when a user logs in a certain set of methods is called (i.e. there was clearly an expected behavior I was aiming to test).  Being very familiar with the architecture [ READ MORE ]

Trade-offs in Unit Testing – Part I Mock Objects

One of my many roles at Mint.com is the lead test engineer. I believe I was appointed this role by our CEO, because I am pretty good at thinking through use cases, setting up testing infrastructure, and being diligent about having unit tests for our core functionality and making sure that they pass daily. Lately, we’ve [ READ MORE ]