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Jared Carroll

Recently, an Arduino project forced me to brush up on my C. Like many programmers of my generation, C was my first programming language; but it has been a while since I wrote anything in it. After a quick K&R refresher, I immediately began looking for a unit testing framework. I found several, but I …

Jared Carroll

The rise in popularity of JavaScript, especially on the server-side, has introduced more and more developers to asynchronous programming. Asynchronous, event-driven programming also requires a change in testing. In this post, we’ll look at how three popular JavaScript testing frameworks support testing asynchronous code.

Jared Carroll

The Android framework contains several familiar and new architectural patterns. Fortunately, testing was not forgotten. In this post, we’ll develop a simple app test-first, exploring both functional and unit testing in Android. We’ll be using the latest Android API, 4.1, and working entirely from the command-line. All the code is available on github.

Jonah Williams

I have been using Kiwi to run my iOS projects’ tests. Kiwi works great for defining BDD style unit tests which express the sort of nested assertions I like to write. Unit tests should test code in isolation so that they remain small, fast, and stable. So my unit tests mock or stub any network …

Jonah Williams

I have talked about running xcode units tests from the command line before. When I’m running tests I often want to load some sort of test fixture data for use in my tests. For example: I might want to keep a file of recorded API responses so that I can stub out network calls. In …

Jared Carroll

Integrating with an external API is almost a guarantee in any modern web app. To effectively test such integration, you need to stub it out. A good stub should be easy to create and consistently up-to-date with actual, current API responses. In this post, we’ll outline a testing strategy using stubs for an external API.

Jared Carroll

The Ruby community’s obsession with testing is unrivaled. Over the years, Rubyists have gone from old school TDD using test/unit, to modern BDD with RSpec and finally to comprehensive integration testing, including JavaScript support, via Cucumber. The goal was tests at all layers and to get as close as possible to simulating a real browser. …

Jared Carroll

In a typical agile project the test suite grows roughly twice as fast as the non-test code. As developers, our goal should be the minimum amount of test code that specifies the behavior of the app. This often leads to using “clever” metaprogramming techniques in order to reduce boilerplate and overall lines of test code. …

Rudy Jahchan

View more presentations from rudyjahchan Recently, Jonah and I have been exploring test-driven development and automated deployment on the iOS platform. As we were both attending iOSDevCamp 2011, we decided to give a lightning talk summarizing our discoveries and to generate excitement within others in the community to start their project on the right foot …

Jared Carroll

As more and more parts of our applications are written in JavaScript, its important to have them covered with automated tests. Fortunately, there are numerous JavaScript testing tools available. As a BDD fan, the RSpec inspired Jasmine is currently my go-to.