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Avoid mega unit tests
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Steve Freeman) on Sun, 13/01/2008 - 10:59.We've just had a posting to the jMock user list that included the following:
I was involved in a project recently where JMock was used quite heavily. Looking back, here's what I found:
- The unit tests where at times unreadable (no idea what they were doing).
- Some tests classes would reach 500 lines in addition to inheriting anabstract class which also would have up to 500 lines.
- Refactoring would lead to massive changes in test code.
I've seen this failure mode on another project I've been helping with, so I think there might be a common pattern.
Programming retreats to its niche
Submitted by Brian Marick on Sun, 13/01/2008 - 18:25.Eugene Wallingford wrote a depressing post two months ago. (Note: to find the article, you’ll have to scroll down.)I occasionally write about how students these days don’t want to program. Not only don’t they want to do it for a living, they don’t even want to learn how. I have seen this manifested in a [...]
What Counts? Redux
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Michael) on Sun, 13/01/2008 - 20:02.In my December 2007 Test Connections column in Better Software, I discussed the problem of counting bugs, test cases, and other things that are mind-stuff, rather than physically constructed objects. I gave a number of examples, but I now have another compelling one.
I got the same Christmas gift—Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought—from both my mother and my brother-in-law. (I guess they have me figured out.) In Chapter One, Pinker asks a question about the attack (or is it attacks?) on the World Trade Center in 2001. An airplane hit the North Tower at 8:46am. Seventeen minutes later, another airplane hit the South Tower. Now: was that one event or two?
I got the same Christmas gift—Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought—from both my mother and my brother-in-law. (I guess they have me figured out.) In Chapter One, Pinker asks a question about the attack (or is it attacks?) on the World Trade Center in 2001. An airplane hit the North Tower at 8:46am. Seventeen minutes later, another airplane hit the South Tower. Now: was that one event or two?
qaManager v1-0-Beta-6 is available for developers
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Sun, 13/01/2008 - 21:15.qaManager is a test management tool featuring project tracking, resource management, test case management and more. v1-0-Beta-6 source has been released and is available to download. This release contains all qaManager and OpenXava specific resource.