Thus far I have written about how great test and quality work is. This is not the whole picture - far too often, quality work is not a pleasant experience.…
Some years ago, I had been talking at an awesome test conference and brought home a deck of playing cards designed to help get your team excited about quality. In…
There’s no denying it. Testing is awesome and the most fun and amazing part of any product development! Strangely enough, I have found that most people look at me weird…
At one point I calculated that less than 2% of my work time was test execution. There is so much more to the test profession than meets the eye, and…
I recently read a blog post about using shims to unit test without interfaces. It looks really compelling, so I thought I'd explore some ways to create testable code to…
In two previous blog posts I started by introducing scripts for Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda and then I continued to experiment with Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway. This…
I have been working in a couple of projects where we have created the “same” application in both Android and iOS. In most cases they look and behave the same…
Android networking doesn't sound very radical nowadays. Actually, it's hard to find apps that don't have some sort of network dependency. Some of them won't even start without a stable network. Others…
I have worked in a few app projects that have been up and running for quite some time. The apps often handle a bunch of error states or seldom visited…
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native…
In our current project we are using Robolectric when writing unit tests for our Android application and it has been working out really well. Recently I needed to write a…
If you have worked a while with jUnit you may have seen jUnit Rules. Simply put, a field in a test class annotated with @Rule is a class that lets…
PowerMock 1.6.0 was released a couple of days ago and the main new feature expect for better support for Mockito 1.10.x is the ability to combine the PowerMockRunner with another…
Introduction I want to share my setup for testing JavaScript code when used with RequireJS in Visual Studio. My goal was to have the JavaScript tests look and feel the…
Writing good tests is something that is important in virtually all software projects. In this blog we'll use Midje and Leiningen for integration testing. Midje is a test framework for…