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Testing for Authentication loop holes / bugs
We've got a web application which is 99% complete prior to public beta, were currenlty securing the site from security perspective, locking down the server, db etc, one thing I'm concerned about but ...
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Testing an MMO server
I'm working on a server for a very large (feature wise) MMO. After some bad experiences with breaking changes that caused bugs weeks down the line, we'd like to add unit/automated/regression tests to ...
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How important is automated testing in rapid release, non-critical (web) apps?
I think I understand the theoretical benefits of automated testing, especially unit testing. However, I'm not sure what the optimal amount of testing is when the project is a non-critical, rapidly ...
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Should each method have a seperate JUnit test class?
I am writing JUnit unit tests for my classes.
Is it better to have a separate class for each method, or have just one test class for every actual class?
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What is the best use case for selenium?
I've been trying to develop web applications while at the same time creating the testing. I understand unit testing, I can declare a test method and test specific methods in my application.
But I ...
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Which is the more testable C function implementation?
I write code in C. I have been striving to write more testable code but I am a little
confused on deciding between writing pure functions that are really good for testing
but require smaller functions ...
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How to identify and run the most relevant automated tests?
Suppose you have a reasonably large codebase (0.5 - 1 msloc) with a large test-suite (6-7hr single-threaded runtime; with a mix of unit-tests and integration-tests built with different tools). You ...
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Why don't I see many unit test projects that bring up and tear down a DB? (ASP.NET MVC)
I see all the examples that demonstrate unit testing code and mocking the calls to the DB since you are not suppose to touch the DB. But it seems to me having a set up tasks that uses the actually ...
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Testing gap between unit and integration: Integration in the Small, Component, Unit Integration Tests
Over the past few weeks I've been mulling and researching how to fill a gap in our testing methodology. In simplified terms unit tests are too small and traditional integration tests are too big.
A ...
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Coding and testing in the same sprint
How is testing handled within the same sprint as coding, if all or most of the coding is not done until the end of the sprint? (I'm referring to the "soup-to-nuts" development and testing of a single ...
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Are asserts or unit tests more important?
Both asserts and unit tests serve as documentation for a codebase, and a means of discovering bugs. The main differences are that asserts function as sanity checks and see real inputs, whereas unit ...
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What kind of code would Kent Beck avoid unit testing? [duplicate]
I've been watching a few of the Is TDD Dead? talks on youtube, and one of the things that surprised me is Kent Beck seems to acknowledge that there are just some kinds of programs that aren't worth ...
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How to unit test models in MVC / MVR app?
I'm building a node.js web app and am trying to do so for the first time in a test driven fashion. I'm using nodeunit for testing, which I find allows me to write tests quickly and painlessly. In this ...
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Separate Action from Assertion in Unit Tests
Setup
Many years ago I took to a style of unit testing that I have come to like a lot. In short, it uses a base class to separate out the Arrangement, Action and Assertion of the test into separate ...
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Unit Testing Wrapper (Facade?) Method
I have to write unit tests for some classes my group is developing. The classes are fairly simple, and I'm not sure how to best test them.
public class MyObjectRegistry
{
private ...
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Should I bother to write unit test for UI/UX Components?
So I am building an application with Angular and have started to get into UI testing with DalekJS (http://dalekjs.com). As I have been writing these tests I have been thinking to myself, should I ...
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How do you prevent confused tests? [duplicate]
Testing code for correctness is important. Whether you do strict TDD or not, tests are really the only way a project can scale in size beyond a point where every team member can reasonably keep all ...
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How to show to management that unit testing is cheaper in the long run than manual testing? [duplicate]
In the company I work for there is a requirement that all the code should be covered by a test of any kind because they want to have as few user reported defects as possible.
With this is mind I ...
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Help in ensuring unit tests are meaningful
I've just written a unit test for this function, which loops through a collection of dates and sets properties equal to true or false depending on whether they're before or after a given comparison ...
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How to pick the testing values for parameterized tests for stateless functions?
When writing (parameterized) tests for stateless functions, how do I determine the most ideal set of values to test with?
I'm writing a class with mathematical functions in C#, and I want to write ...
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If functional testing is referred as black box..how can it be done on unit test level?
Preparing myself for ISTQB, I found a bit odd many things in their textbooks. E.g. they call black box testing as functional testing when you are not concerned with structured but only observe the ...
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Implementing TDD for existing code [duplicate]
I've just been learning Unit Testing and I'm trying to understand how I could incorporate it with a project with existing code. Say I wanted to write tests for a specific class in that project, but ...
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Behavior Driven Development and Unit Testing in Python
We might be interested in starting to incorporate a unit test suite to our project, which is coded in Python (and it uses Redis, PostgreSQL and some third-party libraries, if that bears into the ...
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Unit testing - External vs Internal dependencies
Unit tests should be isolated, automated ( ie we don't need to do any prior-configuration for all tests to run at the click of a button ) and consistent in their results. For these reasons we should ...
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Is path coverage stronger than condition coverage?
I have encountered (even in literature) two contradicting opinions related to path vs condition coverage (not branch or edge!). Some say Path coverage is stronger than the condition coverage, some say ...
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Are there any cases when one should not use Test Driven Development? [duplicate]
Is it recommended that TDD be always practiced in a project, or are there cases when it should be avoided?
Should we all adopt TDD?
Is it standard practice in major software companies?
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how and should I 'unit test' an entire package?
I'm still learning to be good about doing unit level testing, as I've always been a little sloppy about only doing functional testing in the past, so I want to double check I'm doing this 'right'.
I ...
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Characterization in Testing: Unit test or Functional test [duplicate]
So I'm trying to push for more automated testing in my company, which focus a lot on prototype and proof of concept systems.
We currently use Google Test for unit testing. This tests specific test ...
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Should we test all our methods?
So today I had a talk with my teammate about unit testing. The whole thing started when he asked me "hey, where are the tests for that class, I see only one?". The whole class was a manager (or a ...
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How to introduce testing in the development cycle
In our company, we are only two IT staffs, and I'm the only developper. I'm developping rich intranet applications using plain php and extjs as javascript framework.
Our development cycle is usually ...
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Are “Stocks” a TDD/Unit testing anti pattern?
From Martin Fowler's Mocks Aren't Stubs he states that Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test while Mocks objects pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the ...
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Unit test SHA256 wrapper queries
I have the following SHA256 wrapper.
public static string SHA256(string plainText)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
SHA256CryptoServiceProvider provider = new ...
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How should I test my application? [closed]
I have made a simple application which searches for files and folders on users computer. Since, I am a student currently in my 1st year and don't have any formal training and have made my application ...
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Testing: Should I wrap system notifications and send my own?
In the current Cocoa app I'm working on, I've got an object, RecordScheduler, which responds to two types of notifications, "day did pass" and "quicksaving interval did pass". In both cases, the ...
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Is it sufficient to use acceptance and integration tests instead of unit test?
Short introduction to this question. I have used now TDD and lately BDD for over one year now. I use techniques like mocking to make writing my tests more efficiently. Lately I have started a ...
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How can I automatically test a large, complex spreadsheet?
So, I've inherited one of those "Engineer's Special" spreadsheets -- the kind developed by Mort the Engineer, with lots of hairy VBA and WTF, complicated calculations, and no documentation.
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Managing false positives in TDD or BDD
I'm relatively new to TDD and have been thinking a lot about how to manage the perpetually growing pool of tests that comes with it.
One of my biggest concerns is about false positives.
In my ...
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How would you create useful tests for Oracle BI Publisher reports?
I'm curious about how to test reports that seem rather straightforward. I'm supposed to create test cases for an Oracle report(XML Publisher/BI Publisher). So for example, a report is supposed to just ...
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How do I create an environment where fixing tests is seen as a priority?
I am a software engineer at a medium sized company. We have a fairly robust testing platform running on TeamCity. It does unit tests on every checkin, and a daily unit test/BVT run.
The problem is ...
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Area of testing
I'm trying to understand which part of my code I should to test. I have some code. Below is example of this code, just to understand the idea.
Depends of some parametrs I put one or another currency ...
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Test Doubles : Do they go in “source packages” or “test packages”?
I've got a couple of data access objects (DefaultPersonServices.class, DefaultAddressServices.class) which is responsible for various CRUD operations in a database.
A few different classes use these ...
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Why is it often said that the test cases need to be made before we start coding? [duplicate]
Why is it often said that the test cases need to be made before we start coding?
What are its pros and what the cons if we don't listen to this advice?
Moreover, does that advice refer to black box ...
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How to create unit/integration tests for my web app?
I am currently developing an Ajax chat application that uses PHP on the back-end. Some of the features it has right now are different types of users (admin/mod/banned), public and private rooms, ...
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Test Driven Development: A good/accepted way to test file system operations?
I am working on a project at the moment that generates a table (among other things) based on the contents of a file-system, and and in turn does some meta-data modifications on the things it finds. ...
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Rethinking testing strategy
Working on Plone projects our team tries to achieve full test coverage at least for important products. The kind of tests we write are unit tests, functional tests and integration tests. (Also ...
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Is it a bad practice to modify code strictly for testing purposes
I have a debate with a programmer colleague about whether it is a good or bad practice to modify a working piece of code only to make it testable (via unit tests for example).
My opinion is that it ...
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Learning system instead of using sed/replace for reviewing test results
For every build of my software I run it through a series of tests that execute a number of commands on a command line and captures the results.
Most of the time the output is a combination of:
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Unit testing in Django
I'm really struggling to write effective unit tests for a large Django project. I have reasonably good test coverage, but I've come to realize that the tests I've been writing are definitely ...
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Understanding unit testing for dynamically changing condition
I was trying to understand how to write unit tests for a few days now. I'm confused with following scenarios in the existing code.
In first function the max value changes depending on the object ...
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How to use unit testing? [duplicate]
How to use unit testing?
There are a lot of frameworks for different languages, which provide functionality of unit testing. There is a lot of information on how to use each of them technically. Just ...
