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JMeter or The Grinder, so which one is better, like?
Or for the benefit of Google: Apache JMeter versus The Grinder. Fight! A while ago I got paid to put these two tools head to head and I think it’s been long enough that the people who put up the money...
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Three Little Mockers
At my last client I got the unusual chance to try three Java mocking frameworks within the same project. The project had started to use EasyMock as the project team felt that Mockito didn’t really have...
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Working with Groovy Tests
For my new project Xapper I decided to try and write my tests in Groovy. Previously I had used Groovy scripts to generate data for Java tests but I was curious as to whether it would be easier to write...
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The Joy of Acceptance Testing: Is my bug fixed yet?
Here’s a question that should be a blast from the past: “Is my bug fixed yet?”. I don’t know, is your acceptance test for the bug passing yet? Acceptance tests are often sold as being the way that...
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How does the patch decorator in Mock work?
I tend to use Mock more as a stubbing library rather than for mocking. The patch decorator is pretty handy in terms of this as it takes care of all the resetting once your stubbed test has run making...
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Good magic, bad magic
Philip Potter pinged me his post on Sinatra magic during the week. Mark Needham’s comment and code on solving the mocking problem is good advice to the problem as posed. At Wazoku where we use the...
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Optimizely testing like a hacker
At work we use Optimizely and I am a fan of the product; I think it has had a massive impact on the way we work and should really help guide us to decide what we choose to do. However I am not a...
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Up-front quality
There has been a great exchange on the London Clojurians mailing list recently talking about the impact of a good REPL on development cycles. The conversation kicks into high-gear with this post from...
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Writing code without tests
This post is aimed at people who have mastered test-driven development and ideally also behaviour-driven development and who are familiar with XCheck testing. If you don’t have good basic steps then...
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Scale Summit 2015: Testing in production session
One of the most interesting sessions I went to at Scale Summit 2015 was one about testing in production. It was not that well attended compared to the other sessions so I don't know if there was...
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