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Mon, 05 Sep 2005

Blitzkrieg Testing in Action

On Tony Semana's blog we find a great example of Blitzkrieg testing in action. You can read about it here.

Here are a few quotes:

...we had rebuilt basic coverage of the existing features and planned release features prior to the start of the testing cycle, and a good picture of what needed to be accomplished when the application was built into our test environment. Our testing cycle was still very short and effective because we knew where to focus our manual tests, integration bugs were found and resolved quickly, and we added automated tests to cover many of the bugs found manually to address bug regression. In the end it allowed 3 of the 5 main project members, including myself, to keep vacations this week that were booked out months in advance.

and

This process captures a very effective way of implementing the practice of automated testing (in this case acceptance/integration testing) in an environment/project where none exists.

Enjoy!

Jared
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Very Short JUnit Tutorial

I wrote a very short JUnit tutorial with developers in mind who are very competent, understand Java quite well, but haven't seen JUnit before. These people are smart but also very busy and probably won't take a few hours to investigate JUnit. I hope this can give them just enough information to get moving and let them see the potential. Feel free to forward it around.

If you like JUnit, there are lots of additional books and articles you can go to for more detailed information, like Pragmatic Unit Testing or the JUnit.org articles page.

The tutorial is located here.

Enjoy!

Jared