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Projects Rarely Fail For Technical Reasons?

It suddenly occurred to me in the shower this morning: I've never worked on a project that failed for technical reasons...



The Future of Testing

This year, I've presented two talks on 'Past, Present and Future of Testing' at IBC Euroforum in Stockholm and 'Future of Testing' at SQC London. I thought it would be a good idea to write some notes on the 'predictions' as I'm joining some esteemed colleagues at a retreat this weekend, and we talk about futures much of the time.

You can download the paper from here.

New tool added - Mockito

Mocking is a framework for unit testing java code. Java mocking is dominated by expect-run-verify libraries like EasyMock or jMock. Mockito offers simpler and more intuitive approach: you ask questions about interactions after execution.

New tool added - Achoo

Achoo is a fluent interface for unit testing Python objects. Achoo makes it easy to make assertions about the properties and behaviours of Python objects. It is designed to be used in conjunction with a unit testing framework like PyUnit's `unittest' module, shipped with all modern Python distributions.