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Development Practices

Property-Based Testing – Testing Assumptions You Don’t Know You’re Making

Finding good test input can be tricky. Even with loads of unit tests, bugs still get through. Why not just generate input and let that find the edge cases?

Development Practices

The Cost of Unit Testing

Is your unit test suite falling short of the value you thought it would have? Here's where you're probably going wrong.

Development Practices

This Code Is Untestable! (Part 2, for Developers)

This post covers five anti-patterns that lead to untestable software, and how resolving these anti-patterns can clean up your codebase.

Development Practices

This Code Is Untestable! (Part 1, for Managers)

What it means when a developer says code is "untestable," and what you should do about it.

Web Apps

Generating Files with JavaScript and Ember.js

Two techniques for generating files with JavaScript and Ember.js, entirely in the browser.

.NET / WPF

Testing C#.Net Async Code

Conventional wisdom around the Internet seems to be that writing async tests is hard enough that it's okay to avoid it. I disagree.

Ember.js

Testing & Tooling in EmberJS

Ember is an awesome web development toolkit with some really killer features. One of my favorite parts of Ember is how easy it is to test.

iOS / OS X

Testing In-House iOS Apps with a Simple Python Web Server

A quick script to easily test enterprise in-house distribution of iOS apps.

Development Practices

4 Tips for Improving Test Quality

These 4 test driven development tips will make your tests easier to write and easier to maintain.

Ruby

YAML Configuration in Ruby with Settingslogic

Settingslogic is an awesome RubyGem for straightforward access to Ruby application configuration.

Development Practices

Script Away Your Annoyances – Testing a Data Import Process

Let's create a script to automate the testing of a slow, ugly, and brittle data import process into Fedora Commons.

Web Apps

Red Green Performance Testing with The Grinder

Applications should be tested in a production-like environment. I recently used The Grinder, a load testing tool, to simulate production-like conditions.