The web offers a virtually infinite menu of information, which makes finding a unit testing tutorial fit for beginners a daunting task. Well, if a unit testing tutorial is what you need, search no more....

At this point, many of us understand the benefits of test automation. It reduces manual repetitive testing over the life cycle of our application, reduces defects, and increases the quality of our code. So why...

This is a post about the Selenium API. Selenium has quite a few components and is often misunderstood. So, first of all, here’s a quick overview of what Selenium is and is not. Selenium is...

Software development can be overwhelming. There are tons of languages, frameworks, and tools to know about. Plus, there are processes to follow. For a developer, it’s often not the work of writing out code that’s...

Recently there has been a lot of emphasis on DevOps test automation in a bid to push code down the system quickly and confidently. Testing is crucial in the software development process, and failure to...

In my career, there\'ve been many times when I\'ve experienced the false joy of my code change being ready to be released to production. I say false joy because everything worked as expected on my computer,...

Software development tends to follow a predictable path of chaos. Full of optimism, your organization embarks on a software project.  You put together requirements, start speccing out some design and architecture concepts, and then you...

The title of this post makes reference to \"test smells,\" which might seem a curious turn of phrase.  It\'s a bit of a riff on the idea of code smells.  So, to understand test smells,...

Over the years, I\'ve helped a lot of organizations install and improve their unit testing practice.  As you can imagine, I\'ve also heard a lot of concerns over and objections to unit testing.  At the...

Introduction to Automation Testing Automation testing is the application of tools and technology to testing software with the goal of reducing testing efforts, delivering capability faster and more affordably. It helps in building better quality...

Software developers, demographically, like to debate software development.  Some of these debates rage endlessly over the years, while others careen toward at least some consensus.  Unit testing, it seems, falls into this latter category. Look...

In many organizations, the role of the software tester is undervalued. The testing team is seen as a cost center however, nothing is further from the truth. Today, almost every company is a software company....