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Test case as a function or test case as a class
I am having a design problem in test automation:-
Requirements - Need to test different servers (using unix console and not GUI) through automation framework. Tests which I'm going to run - Unit, ...
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What is the best way to go about testing that we handle failures appropriately?
we're working on error handling in an application. We try to have fairly good automated test coverage. One big problem though is that we don't really know of a way to test some of our error handling.
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Copy-and-Pasted Test Code: How Bad is This?
My current job is mostly writing GUI test code for various applications that we work on. However, I find that I tend to copy and paste a lot of code within tests. The reason for this is that the areas ...
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TDD with SQL and data manipulation functions
While I'm a professional programmer, I've never been formally trained in software engineering. As I'm frequently visiting here and SO, I've noticed a trend for writing unit tests whenever possible ...
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Automation at GUI or API Level in Scrum
I am a Automation Engineer. I use QTP for Automation.
I wanted to know couple of things.
In a scrum Project which has 2 weeks of work, how can complete automation be done in that time frame (talking ...
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How would you unit-test or perform the most effective automated testing on graphics code?
I'm writing a game and the accompanying graphics engine on top of OpenGL in C++. Im also a fan of good coding processes and automated testing. Graphics code + testing seems pretty immiscible, since ...
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How can I do test automation using a python script to test a c program?
I was wondering if I can use a Python script to test a C program automatically.
Suppose I have a very simple C program which reads data (numbers as test cases) from the console, calculates them, then ...
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Pushing for greater automated testing on a QA team [closed]
I'm a junior developer joining a QA team at my company. The QA team I had been interacting with while working as a developer was very solid and the business had been very good about encouraging and ...
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Can I use Ruby to automate everything?
I face various types of applications (web-based, GUI-based, command-line, etc.) on various platforms (Windows, Linux, etc.) to operate everyday. There is a great opportunity for me to automate tasks ...
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What are the disadvantages of automated testing?
There are a number of questions on this site that give plenty of information about the benefits that can be gained from automated testing. But I didn't see anything that represented the other side of ...
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What is a domain of automatic testing tools such as ScalaCheck?
I've seen not so many examples of testing with automatic tools, i.e. serializing/deserializing of JSON (which was paired in the following way:
val actual = deserialize(serialize(string))), checking ...
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New sequential testing framework with the same rigor as xUnit?
Looking for books (published or upcoming) and frameworks (preferably free/open-source) for sequential tests.
My understanding of sequential tests is that it is very similar to a Workflow System, ...
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Can software performance monitoring/profiling be automated to a high degree, as in unit testing?
Unit testing consists of executable code which exercise a certain functionality and then assert some conditions. The results are either Pass or Fail.
The objective is always to have all tests ...
