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Unit tests with Spock

This article has first appeared in Today Software Magazine.  Why Spock? When we first started working on our project at work, we searched for an easy-to-use tool that would help us write readable and concise tests. We chose Spock, because in combination with Groovy it provided exactly what we needed: readable BDD-style tests that we

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Practical Tips for Automated Acceptance Tests

The complete interview can be found on InfoQ.  Adrian Bolboacă, Organizational and Technical Coach and Trainer at Mozaic Works, got interviewed by Ben Linders, InfoQ, about different types of tests, writing sufficient and good acceptance tests, criteria to decide to automate a test, and how to apply test automation to create executable specifications. Testing techniques

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Testing Strategy for a Real Time Embedded C application

Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with a customer who develops hardware appliances. They were facing a challenge with complaints from users about one of their products, which appeared a few months in. Needless to say, the cause of such bugs requires long and thorough investigation. Context The hardware appliance runs a real-time OS, which

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Software Crafer’s Tools: Unit Testing

This article was first published in Today Software Magazine, no 12. Below it’s the full version. The authors are: Alexandru Bolboaca and Adrian Bolboaca. The Problem Imagine the following situation: a team has developed for 6 months a great product that immediately sells. Users show their passion for the product by asking new features. If the team does not deliver the new features

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Question the software design – Part 2 – TDD and software architecture

J.B. Rainsberger and Alex Bolboaca, two experienced programmers, trainers and consultants, with more than 15 years in the software development field, took the stage and answered a series of questions about how to create better software design. Their live conversation meant sharing valuable insights and new perspectives with the audience. Below you can watch the second part of the Q&A session.

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Why is it so hard to teach “what we started to call ATDD”?

(Guest blog post by Markus Gärtner, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) Four months have nearly past since I started my new job at it-agile GmbH. Lots of things have happened since then. I got to know many teams, I learned lots about design, architecture, test-driven development, and also about testing. This blog entry is about

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Testing Dojos from the Back of the Room

(Guest blog post by Markus Gärtner, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) Last week I organized together with my colleague Meike Mertsch a Testing Dojo for a client of ours. The testers there had attended some Testing Dojos in the past, but with some drawbacks. As part of the clarification process the testers picked an internal

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