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Mockito- a great mock framework for Java development.
by Phat (Phillip) H. VU
Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with clean & simple API.
Getting started with automated white box testing (and Pex)
by Jonathan de Halleux, Nikolai Tillmann
Pex is a new tool that helps in understanding the behavior of .NET code, debugging issues, and in creating a test suite that covers all corner cases -- fully automatically.
Application Analysis with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)
by Mattias Högström
ETW is a super fast way to collect runtime data from your app. We will look how we can insert intelligent data points, collect data, and analyze data logs. This permits supervision, anomaly detection, and system optimization.
Creating Test Objects With FakeModel
by Member 9913858
An introduction to using FakeModel to create test aata for you.

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XML Strategies to Improve Test Organization
by E. Scott McFadden
XML Strategies to Improve Test Organization
Automating SoapUI using Groovy – A Walk Through
by sore_ron
How to automate SoapUI using Groovy
Testing disk space exceptions with CopyToAsync
by BC3Tech
I got an error report from the field in Upload to YouTube where the user was getting an unhandled exception when I copied their Camera Roll video to temporary storage to hand off to Movie Maker for editing. Great catch, now to shore up the UX when this happens. Only problem is, I need to […]Co
Multi Class Logistic Regression Training and Testing
by pi19404
IntroductionIn this article we will look at training and testing of a Multi-class Logistic Classifier Logistic regression is a probabilistic, linear classifier. It is parametrized by a weight matrix $W$ and a bias vector $b$. Classification is done by projecting data points onto a set of hyperpl

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Insider Secrets for Agile: A Survival Guide for Project Managers in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands
More and more organizations in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands are...
Agile at the Program Level (Companion Guide to “Insider Secrets for Agile: A Survival Guide for Project Managers")
Meant as a companion resource to “Insider Secrets for Agile: A Survival...
Agile at the Team Level (Companion Guide to “Insider Secrets for Agile: A Survival Guide for Project Managers)
The benefits of Agile are multi-dimensional. But the most important...

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UITestBench, a lightweight UI testing library
3 Apr 2008
slkr171
This article describes how to build a lightweight test bench for testing user interfaces which are written entirely in C#/.NET, using NUnit or any other unit test framework.
.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0Visual-StudioDevQADesignIntermediate
Getting started with automated white box testing (and Pex)
28 Jan 2009
Jonathan de Halleux, Nikolai Tillmann
Pex is a new tool that helps in understanding the behavior of .NET code, debugging issues, and in creating a test suite that covers all corner cases -- fully automatically.
.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETDev
RemoteInstall: Automated Testing of Windows Installers on VMWare Infrastructure
24 Nov 2009
dB.
A framework for testing Windows installers with some help from virtualization.
C#XMLWindows.NETWin32Win64ArchitectDevQABeginner
Dynamic Unit Testing
1 Sep 2011
spartacus23
Dynamic Unit Testing
C#QA
Testability: Test before Testing!
31 Oct 2011
Garima Valecha
The Time you save in testing is the time you gain for testing
QAAll-Topics
Website Testing Techniques
28 Nov 2011
Praveen Kumar P.V
Website testing techniques
All-TopicsWeb
Simple paradigm of scientific software testing
1 Jan 2012
Petr Ivankov
Testing of complicated scientific tasks
C#.NETArchitectDevAdvancedC#4.0
RelationAssert as extension to the unit test Assert class
11 Mar 2012
Andreas Gieriet
How to define RelationAssert as an extension to the VisualStudio Assert class.
C#VisualStudioUnitTestFramework
Provide User Interfaces for Adhoc Blackbox testing class methods
9 Oct 2012
Kay Lerch
Use TestUI to release a simple class library (or a whole collection of those) as an indepenent UI application for testing or administrative purpose. It is on your own to enhance the user experience with your own TestUIRenderer.
C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETVisual-StudioArchitectDevQA
Moq - Mock Database
18 Oct 2012
indranil pal
Mocking database in Unit Tests using Moq.
C#.NETIntermediateUnitTesting
How to complement TDD with static analysis
11 Dec 2012
Karpov Andrey
TDD is one of the most popular software development techniques. I like this technology in general, and we employ it to some extent. The main thing is not to run to extremes when using it.
C++CDevQABeginnerIntermediatetestingTDD
Mockito- a great mock framework for Java development.
27 Dec 2012
Phat (Phillip) H. VU
Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with clean & simple API.
JavaUnitTesting
White box testing with PEX
3 Jan 2013
sbrakl
Problems related to maintenance of Unit test suites, using PEX tp help with the solution, and various PEX concepts like PEX Factories, PEX Method (PUT), Parameterize Mock and Partial Stubs.
C#.NETDevQAIntermediate
All About Test Part 1 - Choosing Your Tests
21 Jan 2013
Simeon Sheye
Beyond basic unit tests, how do you choose your tests and when are you done?
ArchitectDevQAIntermediateAdvancedAll-TopicsintegrationsoftwareDevelopmenttest
CLI Performance Testing
14 Feb 2013
Biswas, Sumit
Command Line Interface (CLI) Performance Testing using java
JavaWindowsJava SEQALinuxBeginner
Application Analysis with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)
6 Aug 2013
Mattias Högström
ETW is a super fast way to collect runtime data from your app. We will look how we can insert intelligent data points, collect data, and analyze data logs. This permits supervision, anomaly detection, and system optimization.
C#Visual-StudioDevIntermediate.NET4.5
How to Spring Clean Your Static Analysis: 10 Tips
7 May 2013
c_a_dunlop
Get 10 tips for revitalizing your existing static analysis implementation—no matter what static analysis tool you're using.
DevstatictestingpracticesprogrammingDevelopmentvalidator
Unit testing on tic tac toe example
2 Dec 2013
Petar Brkusanin
Minimalistic tic tac toe game implementation with some unit test coverage.
WindowsDevQABeginnerC#4.0.NET4.5
EtwDataViewer - Analyze, visualize, and make sense of your ETW logs
6 Aug 2013
Mattias Högström
Event tracing for Windows is a super efficient log technology, alas logs are still flat raw logs. EtwDataViewer is a prototype for adding browsability, analysis, and a visual tree representation.
C#.NET4.5
Creating Test Objects With FakeModel
17 Dec 2013
Member 9913858
An introduction to using FakeModel to create test aata for you.
C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevQAWCFWPFWebFormsIntermediate
Techniques to "Fault Find Issues" - Within Your Remote WCF Services
12 Dec 2013
Bert O Neill
Know how to find issues within your deployed WCF services
C#.NETArchitectDevQAWCFIntermediateAdvanced
Deploying Web Applications using Team Foundation Build Server – Part 1
8 Jul 2014
mkalos
Learn how to configure Team Foundation Server for automated web deployment.
IIS7.NETIISVisual-StudioDevIntermediateMVC.NET4.NET4.5
Various Mock Setups Using Moq Framework
25 Jul 2014
Sourav Kayal
In this article we will discuss various important mock setups using Moq framework
C#WindowsBeginner
Automating SoapUI using Groovy – A Walk Through
18 Sep 2014N
sore_ron
How to automate SoapUI using Groovy
IntermediateSoapUI
Behavior-Driven Development with NBehave
13 Jan 2009
Dmitri Nеstеruk
A BDD tutorial using NBehave and MbUnit.
.NET2.0MonoC#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETVisual-StudioArchitect
Performance Benchmarks using NUnit Addin
27 Oct 2012
NinjaCross
This tutorials introduces a new NUnit Addin able to record execution time of unit tests and generate XML, CSV, HTML performances reports with charts and history tracking.
.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0C#XMLWindows.NETVisual-StudioHTMLArchitect
Visual studio 2012 Fakes
11 Nov 2013
Marla Sukesh
In this article we will make a deep dive into VS 2012 Fakes.
C#.NETIntermediateAdvanced.NET4.5
Performance Tests: Precise Run Time Measurements with System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch
28 Feb 2010
Thomas Maierhofer (Tom)
How the .NET Framework Stopwatch class can be used to measure and compare algorithm runtime with a high accuracy
.NET2.0MonoDotGNUC#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#Windows.NETCF
Sedge: An Automated Error Reporting Tool
14 Jan 2010
Andrei Marukovich
This article describes Sedge - a highly customizable tool designed to help your customers create better error reports.
C#XML.NETDevQAIntermediate
Unit Testing and Integration Testing in Business Applications
11 Jun 2011
Omar Al Zabir
This article presents some realistic unit and integration test examples in a N-tier web application to assist in writing tests that provide confidence in moving towards Test Driven Development (TDD)
C#ASP.NET.NETArchitectDevQAIntermediateEF
TFS, Automated Testing and Continuous Integration
10 Feb 2013
Shining Dragon
Automated testing and continuous integration in TFS
DevQAXAMLDesignBeginnerIntermediateVS2010TFSALM
Rock Solid Quality
8 Jul 2014
Paulo Zemek
Make your life easier by having components that never corrupt inner states.
C#.NETArchitectDevQAIntermediate
Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory
2 Nov 2011
Rene Pally
Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory
Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaWindowsDevQAASMMSILAdvanced
Behavioral: A BDD library for better organizing your unit tests
24 Aug 2011
garymcleanhall
A Behavior Driven Design (BDD) library adding a clearer syntax and better organization to unit tests. Currently tested working with NUnit and MSTest.
C#.NETDevQAIntermediateAdvanced
Test The Multi-Layers Of A MVC3 Application
3 Apr 2013
Bert O Neill
Create test project for client, server and GUI layers of a MVC application - so that they can then be incorporated into a continuous integration server build
C#ASP.NET.NETCFArchitectDevQAIntermediateAdvancedtesting
Part 2: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (DebugDiag, AppVerifier)
13 Feb 2014
shailesh91082
This is Part 2 of various techniques to debug applications on Windows, focussed on Application Crash
C++WindowsQABeginner
The Unit Test of Silverlight Applications with Asynchronous Service Callbacks
18 Feb 2011
Dr. Song Li
This article presents an example on unit testing of Silverlight applications with asynchronous service callbacks.
C#ArchitectDevQAWCFIntermediateSilverlightMVVM
Part 3: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (Self Dump Generation)
13 Feb 2014
shailesh91082
This is Part 3 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focussed on automated way of generating Dump On Application Crash
C++WindowsQABeginner
MOQ and C# (inc. Synchronized and Asynchronized WCF Service Calls)
4 Apr 2011
Bert O Neill
Mocking your .NET services (inc. asynchronous calls) or class libraries with MOQ
C#.NETDevQAIntermediatetesting
Six important uses of Partial/Mock testing
10 May 2014
Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh
This article explain about 6 important use of Partial/Mocktesting
C#.NETDevIntermediatetesting
Unit testing with Mock objects (Rhino Mocks)
25 Nov 2013
Livio Francescucci
A basic introduction about how to write unit tests using mock objects (Rhino Mocks).
C#3.0.NET3.5C#Visual-StudioDevIntermediateC#4.0VS2010Patternspractices
From Mocks to Isolation
31 Oct 2008
Vagif Abilov
The article discusses how to isolate the code under test from behavior of referenced classes by using mocking frameworks.
VS2005.NET3.0.NET3.5VS2008C#ArchitectDevQAIntermediate
Part 1: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (Windbg)
13 Feb 2014
shailesh91082
This is Part 1 covering various techniques on how to debug applications on Windows, focussed on application crashes
C++WindowsBeginner
Parrots, A "record and replay" Mocking/Stubbing Library
1 Oct 2011
Wasp.NET
Parrots is a "record and replay" mocking/stubbing library introducing a new concept in the "mocking" area.
C#WindowsVisual-StudioArchitectDevIntermediateC#4.0
Automation Utility Using Open-Source Tool: WatiN
16 Sep 2009
Diwakar Gupta
An article on creating a wrapper utility over the WatiN library.
.NET2.0C#2.0ASP.NETDevQAIntermediate
QS Part 1 - A New Approach to Unit and Integration Testing
9 Nov 2010
Simeon Sheye
Quality Gate One Studio is a testing framework that suggests a new approach to unit and integration testing.
.NET2.0.NET3.0.NET3.5C#QAThreadingFrameworkbugstestingthreads
Unit Testing Using NUnit
25 Jul 2013
Neerajan Lamsal
Unit Testing using NUnit.
C#testingNUnit
All About Test Part 2 - Testing Stateful System
21 Jan 2013
Simeon Sheye
How to manage state and simulate behavior against the system under test.
C#.NETArchitectDevQAIntermediateAdvancedFrameworkGeneraltesting
Part 5: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Memory Leaks (CRT APIs)
13 Feb 2014
shailesh91082
This is Part 5 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focused on Memory Leaks
C++CWindowsDevQAIntermediate
Automating the Reporting of Critical Errors in Your Program
2 Dec 2012
OlegKrivtsov
How to automate collecting information about critical errors occurring in your program to greatly simplify your life in sense of bug analysis and troubleshooting.
C++testingDebuggingcrash
Part 4: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Memory Leaks (Perfmon)
13 Feb 2014
shailesh91082
This is Part4 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focussed on Memory Leaks
C++CWindowsDevQAIntermediate
Introduction to NUnit and TDD
25 Feb 2011
Dipti Mehta
This is an introduction to NUnit and TDD
C#.NETNUnit
Test Last Development: A Primer for Unit Testing of Legacy Code
14 Apr 2011
caloia
Many teams have not fully embraced TDD, this document is for teams that need to test legacy code or developers who write code after the fact.
ArchitectDBADevQADesignIntermediateAll-Topicstesting
Dynamically build a 'Build Dependency Graph'
19 Dec 2013
deoxys
Automate the build process with a Build Dependency Tree.
C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioArchitectDev
Unit Testing options in Visual Studio 2008
10 May 2009
Donsw
A discussion of the different options of Unit Testing in VS2008.
C#3.0.NET3.5VS2008DevQAIntermediate
Black-box Testing Techniques
8 Jun 2009
Robin_Roy
Black box testing and developing test cases.
QAIntermediateAll-Topics
White Box Testing Technique
9 Jun 2009
Robin_Roy
White Box Testing Techniques and developing test cases
DevQAIntermediateAdvancedAll-Topics
Test Automation using Watir and Power of Watir with Ruby Libraries
21 Jul 2009
khaja786
An article on how watir helps Test automation and power of Watir by implementing Ruby libraries
C++DevIntermediate
Introduction to BDD using StoryQ
10 Jun 2010
Giorgio Minardi
Getting started with BDD in an easy way
C#.NETBeginnerIntermediateAdvanced
Visual Studio 2008 Load Test Gotchas
16 Sep 2010
Sergej Andrejev
Load testing features available in Visual Studio 2008 through Team Suite Extension or in Visual Studio Tester Edition.
VS2008DevIntermediate
5 F-A-Qs Every PM NEEDS to Read
6 Jan 2011
mkowlowitz
5 F-A-Qs regarding project management and project management software
QADesignBeginnerAll-TopicsApplicationtimepracticessoftwareProject
Unit testing made easy Part 1: Repository Testing
13 Nov 2012
Foyzul Karim
Step by step to your first unit testing
C#.NETDevQADesignBeginnerIntermediate
Test Complete: Storing of Test Data in External Files
28 Dec 2010
Apriorit Inc, Kit Tatiana
In this article, I will describe the usage of external files for storing of test data and their usage in TestComplete scripts
WindowsDevQABeginnerIntermediate
Creating Unit tests for your c# code
7 Jun 2012
@AmitGajjar
This test case is intended for understanding of how useful automated Unit tests
.NET3.5DevQAIntermediateC#4.0testing
Test Explorer
14 Nov 2013
deoxys
Test automation tool to run Visual Studio test classes.
XMLWindowsVisual-StudioDevXHTMLIntermediateC#4.0.NET4.NET4.5
Exchange Server: Express Configuration for Testing
24 Sep 2010
Apriorit Inc, Kit Tatiana
The aim of the article is to present a step-by-step description of the installation and configuration of the domain controller, Exchange Server, and MS Outlook with two accounts for the testing purposes.
WindowsDevQABeginnerIntermediateAdvancedexchangeVirtualizationvirtual-machine
Installer Testing and Verification
22 Jun 2009
Kuldip Rindani
Installer testing verifier - Useful for installer testing and verification.
VC6VC7Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaHTMLSTLDevQA
Continuous Integration with CruiseControl.net
7 Mar 2009
dorothyDorothy
Discusses the advantages of continuous integration going into some detail on automating unit tests and documentation. Includes example build files and configuration.
.NET2.0WinXPWin2003XMLIISDevQAIntermediate
Stress and Performance Testing BizTalk Applications
22 Jul 2009
Robin_Roy
Stress and Performance Testing BizTalk Applications using BizTalk LoadGen 2007
QAIntermediateAll-Topics
How to Implement a Software Development Process
28 Apr 2009
Cristinel Mazarine
Software development process or how to perform 100% testing on GUI applications
C#XMLWindows.NETDevIntermediate
Agile Testing: Best to Keep Customers Happy
27 Jul 2011
HARISHCHOWDHARY
Discussion about agile testing
QAAll-Topics
Running Selenium HTML (Selenese) Test Cases in Parallel
1 Dec 2009
Obaid Malik
This article will explain how to reduce time for the execution of Selenium HTML test cases without using Selenium Grid.
HTMLQAIntermediateAdvanced
Check NUnit test results from a batch script
6 Jul 2009
Sergiy Korzh
A small program which allows to check results generated by the nunit-console utility.
C#2.0C#3.0.NETDevQAIntermediate
Easy Debugging of NUnit Tests from Visual Studio 2008 Professional
23 Jun 2009
Tommi Laukkanen
How to easily debug NUnit tests in Visual Studio 2008 professional edition
VS2008C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioArchitectDevQABeginnerIntermediate
Using Multiple Asserts in One Test Considered Helpful
1 Mar 2009
Paul B.
One TDD mantra is that there should be only one "assert" per test. Here is a finance/trading example where that doesn't work very well.
C#ArchitectDevQAIntermediate
Pragmatic Unit Tests using "yield return" for providing test cases
5 Feb 2013
Pawel idzikowski
How to gain better control over the testing process reducing the amount of test methods in a unit test.
WinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003VS2005VS2008C#.NETCF.NETDev
Overview of Testing in Cloud
18 Apr 2013
Kulamani Sahoo
The paper outlines the benefits of moving the application testing from traditional in house to cloud ,high level description on different type of testing performed in cloud for the applications, approach Test team/companies need to performed if they are adopting cloud solution .This solution is gene
QA
Why I'm Now a TDD Believer (sort of...)
15 May 2013
IndifferentDisdain
Using TDD for Fibonacci generator and lessons learned.
C#.NETBeginner
Step by Step Guide for Unit Testing ExtJS Application using Jasmine
3 Oct 2013
Gaurav H
The article is a step by step guide to enable unit testing ExtJS applications using Jasmine.
JavascriptExtJSJasmine
Data-driven troubles
21 Jan 2014
Ivan Yakimov
Some problems I faced trying to use data-driven tests in Microsoft Testing Framework
C#.NETDev
EurekaLog for VisualStudio
26 Oct 2009
rastaVnuce
This article provides a quick overview of an “on-site” bug tracking solution. An application add-in, if you will, which catches, logs and reports uncaught exceptions.
ASP.NETWindowsWinMobile.NETCF.NETVisual-StudioDevQAXAMLWPF
User Story Source Code Layout with MSpec
14 Feb 2010
erik.f
An example showing a source code structure that reflects user stories using MSpec.
C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevQAIntermediate
Automated Test System: Part I
17 Mar 2009
GamePlanner
The article attempts to demonstrate a way of testing in the .NET framework. This is just a demonstration of how we can do automated testing in C# .NET.
.NET2.0Win2KWinXPVistaVS2005C#DevQAIntermediate
Black Box Testing, Its Advantages and Disadvantages
25 Jun 2010
Koundinya
The advantages and disadvantages of black box testing
DevIntermediateAll-Topicstesting
Recovery Testing: WHAT and WHY!
1 Nov 2011
Garima Valecha
The WHAT and WHY of Recovery testing
QAAll-Topics
Reuse selenium webdriver solution
14 Feb 2013
Mircea Sirghi
This article describes how to reuse web driver when selenium test crashes or how to debug selenium scripts on the fly.
Java
Using partial mocks for non public methods testing
10 Feb 2013
Enrique Albert
Pattern to follow using mock frameworks so non public methods can be tested. The code example is based on the RhinoMock framework but it is easily applicable to any other mock framework.
C#.NETDevBeginnerUnitTesting
Testing an ASP.NET MVC app with Ruby
6 May 2013
titteke
Testing an ASP.NET MVC app with Ruby.
ASP.NETDevQAIntermediateRubyMVC
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Java API Performance Testing
14 Feb 2013
Biswas, Sumit
Java API Performance Testing using LoadRunner
JavaWindowsQALinuxBeginner
White: An UI Automation Tool for Windows Application
25 Nov 2011
jawed.ace
This article exposes how to use White for UI automation of Windows application and how to create Automation test script using White.
C#.NETDevQABeginnerIntermediate
Screenshot Smoke Testing
28 Nov 2013
James Coleman
Leveraging Selenium and Image Magick to perform screenshot comparisons for UI regression testing.
C#imageNUnitUnitTesting
Automated UI tests with Watin in ASP NET MVC
28 Aug 2010
Robert Corvus
How to create automated browser tests in ASP NET MVC using Watin
.NET3.0.NET3.5C#ASP.NET.NETArchitectDevQADesignBeginner
Quick and easy WatiN recipe: How to handle a confirm dialog
27 Aug 2009
Jonathan Franks
How to process confirm dialogs in WatiN.
C#3.0.NET3.5VBHTMLDevQAIntermediate
Automation Enabler PlugIn - Exposes Inaccessible Elements to UI Automation Framework
20 Jun 2011
Kumar, Ravikant INDIA Bangalore
A reusable plug-in framework which exposes inaccessible elements to UI Automation framework. A must for .NET 2.0 WinForm container controls
C#XMLDevQAIntermediatetesting
UI Test Automation Using Coded UI
13 Jul 2014
Mohit1110
In this article I have tried to explain about UI Automaton using Coded UI
.NETVisual-StudioArchitectDevQABeginnerUItesting.NET4.5VS2012
UI Automation Interesting Challenge - Testing Automation Framework
28 Jun 2010
Varun Jain 786
UI Automation challenge using Menuitem, and MenuStrip control
.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0.NET3.0.NET3.5C#.NETArchitectDevQA


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