Implementing Automated Testing
Published May 25th, 2009 Under Books | 1 Comment
This book presents a comprehensive treatement of the domain of software testing automation. The first part defines and describes test automation, proposing a business case for automation and discussing the pitfalls that should be avoided. The second part is a roadmap for test automation. It gives six keys for software testing automation payoff:
1. Know your requriments
2. Develop a strategy
3. Test your tools
4. Track progress and adjust
5. Implement the process
6. Put the right people in the process.
Four appendixes complete the book. They provide a process checklist, explain how automation applies to various testing types, disscuss tools evaluation and give a case study.
The fact that the autors have worked with the Defence industry might have affected the way the book was conceived and written: with structure and rigor. The discussions, recommandations, references and tools suggestions apply however to every software testing situation and not only to organization that are strongly process oriented. The aim of the book is to be a guide that can help to implement successfully automated software testing and it certainly achieve its objective.
Reference: “Implementing Automated Testing”, Elfriede Dustin, Thom Garrett & Bernie Gauf, Addison Wesley.
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More than 1000 items in the Software Development Links Directory
Published May 18th, 2009 Under Links, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
The Software Development Links Directory has now more than 1000 items listed. SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add one or more (free) link(s) in this directory. Get enhanced visibility with reciprocal links.
Linkopedia May 2009
Published May 14th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Free Programming Books. A categorized list of online programming books available for free download.
You Know You’re Managing a Project When – V2
The Big Agile Practices Survey Report (Part 1)
Evolutionary architecture and emergent design: Test-driven design, Part 2. More on allowing tests to drive and improve your design
Easier testing with EasyMock. Imitate interfaces, classes, and exceptions with an open source mock-object framework
Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text.
NetSpec is a small test extension framework for the Visual Studio Testing Framework that. allows users to write tests in an RSpec like syntax more in terms with Behaviour Driven Developement (BDD)
What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too. Keynote presentation given at RailConf 2009 by Robert Martin.
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Hungry Micro Focus Eats Borland Cadaver (and More)
Published May 7th, 2009 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
Borland Software Corporation announced that Micro Focus International plc and Borland have entered into a definitive agreement under which Micro Focus will acquire all the outstanding shares of Borland in a cash merger transaction. Micro Focus will acquire each outstanding share of common stock of Borland for $1.00 per share, representing a premium of 25% over the closing share price of Borland’s common stock on May 5, 2009 of $0.80 and a premium of approximately 67% over the average thirty trading day closing price of $0.60. The aggregate transaction value is approximately $75 million.
In January, we asked the question “Will Borland Survive Yet Another Crisis?“, now we have the answer. And it is negative. After selling its development tools to Embarcadero in May 2008 and loosing 15% of its workforce and its CEO in January, Borland makes a final step to cancel 26 years of existence as a vendor of software development tools. Best know for its original Cobol product, Microfocus expands with this acquisition its portfolio of software development tools. The same day, it acquired the automated testing products of Compuware.
It remains to be seen what will Micro Focus will do technically with Borland products, that are also mostly the results of former Borland acquisitions, and Compuware solutions. It doesn’t seem to have a lot of overlaps between the new tools and the previous solutions sold by Micro Focus. You could think that Borland and Compuware testing tools are operating on the same market, but most of the Compuware quality offer is targeting the mainframe.
Micro Focus is profitable according to its last detailed financial statements issued in 2008. It is also used to integrate acquisitions as it purchased last year NetManage and Liant in June and July. With these two new purchases, Micro Focus gains access to a new customer portfolio. Consolidating the acquired sales and support organizations with it own staff (or in more crude words: “firing people”), it could achieve what Borland was missing these recent years: profits. The deal could bring short term relief to Borland customers as it lifts uncertainties about the support organization. It remains to be seen if Micro Focus will develop significantly the acquired products or if it will just harvest the revenues from the maintenance fees.
The Software Development Articles Directory Has Now More Than 1500 References
Published May 6th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment
From architecture to testing, through Java, .NET or PHP, you will find in this directory more than 1500 handpicked, described and categorized articles that will help you improve your software development expertise or learn something in a new area.
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