Code Coverage – What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing! Say it again! That is certainly the response I got when I asked an architect about code coverage. And it also seemed to be the conclusion from a long email thread/discussion we had ...Read More

How do You Test in Agile Environment?

Testing in any industry means a product is built and tested. Take for example, a car tested against wet road surfaces or for maximum speed etc. This is known as “Quality Control”. The term “Quality Assurance” however is ...Read More

Testing by Contract in StreamLink JS

StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B) is the JavaScript library that we use to stream data from our server-side Liberator to our client side applications. It provides a simple API for client applications to interact with the financial (or other) data that they ...Read More

WebDriver, Chrome and Comet Servers

After spending about 3 hours of my day smashing my head against a really tricky little problem in WebDriver I thought I better just write a quick blog to try and warn other weary travellers. ...Read More

Testing by Contract

In the same way that design by contract can work to interfaces, with a new or existing system testing by contract can work to the interfaces between subsystems.  These interfaces are not necessarily coding interface classes, but they are the externally ...Read More

Agile Testing Days – Day Three

The final day of the conference came with another variety of great talks and also some practical sessions. I was unable to attend ALL of the sessions as I had a flight to catch back to London! But here are the ...Read More

Agile Testing Days – Day Two

Another day of interesting talks in the agile testing world. There's so much to process and think about. If I'm being honest, I'm still digesting all the information from yesterday's talks! Thankfully I have my laptop on hand ...Read More

Agile Testing Days – Day One

The Agile Testing days conference is now in full swing here in Potsdam, Germany! Noted below are my summaries and thoughts on the talks on day one of the conference. Agile teams should adapt ...Read More

Mutation Testing – Killed or Survived?

This blog is a follow up from "Why 100% Test Coverage is not enough". Mutation Testing is a method of software testing where the source code gets modified step by step. If there are ...Read More