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Integration vs Functional Testing
Alright....so this is driving me nuts as I'm trying to encourage the team to write more tests yet here I am unable to determine whether the following example is considered an integration or a ...
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Where do I define WCF client endpoints in a test project?
I have a class library-- call it Services.dll-- which is a wrapper for some third party functionality. The third party gave us a bunch of DLLs and those "inner" DLLs call a WCF service.
Normally, ...
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Integration tests, but how much?
A recent debate within my team made me wonder. The basic topic is that how much and what shall we cover with functional/integration tests (sure, they are not the same but the example is dummy where it ...
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Is it mandatory to run integration tests when deploying feature branches to QA machines
In our organaziton to make the testing process a QA can start the QA process by deploying a feature branch to a QA machine. My question is that while doing so should the build process include running ...
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Is creating a completely duplicate system for quality assurance (QA) of another a bad practice?
At work we have a quite complicated system. Let's call this system, System_A. Our QA team has created another system, call this system, System_B, to test System_A.
The way System_B is used is as ...
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Whether and how to test façades
In my application I have quite a few service classes that act as a façade and delegate most calls to one or more underlying manager classes. I've read very different opinions on how to test such ...
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Best strategy for creating/updating CI build database
I was wondering what the best practice is regarding databases for integration tests on the build server. If there is a best practice.
Currently, our build will create a new database from scratch for ...
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Should integration test coverage allow for lower unit test code coverage? [duplicate]
If a project has 30% coverage by unit tests, 40% due to integration tests, is it fair to say the total is 70% as so moderately well covered?
Or are unit tests only ever used as the standard test ...
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Integration testing process for big applications
I've started to learn about approaches to integration testing in big enterprise applications (java based, spring, and everything :) ).
So I saw two main approaches:
Running parts of spring context ...
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Sequence of Integration Test in Build Process
We are developing a Web API (ASP.net, C#) project and use Bamboo CI for our continuous Integration. We run the Unit test before the deployment task so that deployment does not happen if test fails. We ...
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Do you have to use an in-memory db for integration testing? [closed]
I'm currently setting up integration testing for my company. I haven't done it before. We are developing a Java web application which uses MySQL as datasource.
I know it is very common to use an in-...
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Good approach/Strategy to keep integration test database in-sync with production db?
I'm building a web application in Spring.
I'm using an in-memory (embedded) database for my integration test - HSQL
My production database is MySQL.
When i setup my integration tests a while back i ...
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Is there a benefit to unit testing code whose sole purpose is to generate non-human-readable code in another language?
A significant portion of the application I work on every day consists of Javascript that outputs a lot of (what might as well be) Excel spreadsheet formulas. Yes, Excel is barely a Turing-complete ...
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Are HSQLDB unit tests an anti pattern?
HSQLDB is great. It (also) has an embedded mode (no dedicated server needed), which allows for quick prototyping of stuff like Proof of Concepts, and it can also be great in production-ready ...
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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 stress-...
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Should I use TDD and BDD if my project is changing fast?
I have my own little project I am creating using RoR, I plan it to have small-medium load.
With no doubt I started with BDD and TDD (Cucumber and RSpec to be exact, but I am also experienced with ...
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Unit and Integration testing: How can it become a reflex
All the programmers in my team are familiar with unit testing and integration testing. We have all worked with it. We have all written tests with it. Some of us even have felt an improved sense of ...
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Writing selenium tests, should I just get it done or get it right?
I'm attempting to drive my user interface (heavy on javascript) through selenium. I've already tested the rest of my ajax interaction with selenium successfully. However, this one particular method ...
