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When talking about the activities critical to agile success, one often hears about daily huddles, continuous integration, and user acceptance testing, but I’ve found that the agile principle of Self-directed Teams is equally important. Teams should be allowed to estimate and assign their own work for a variety of reasons: 1) Estimates will be more […]
Introduction Last month wrapped up my Cucumber posts for a while. I’ve covered the full gamut of topics for Cucumber, and I don’t believe I have too many more nuggets of knowledge to offer without putting myself out of a job. While working with Cucumber over the past year I’ve done a lot of research. […]
The hunt for a tool to provide you some ability to scan and analyze mobile application code may not be as elusive as the Chupacabra any more. Kryptowire is a security testing tools designed specifically for testing Android and iOS native mobile applications. It provides a simple interface for analyzing source code developed locally […]
Introduction Part of optimizing your Scenarios within your Features is to ensure you have succinct, reusable test steps. This means making your test steps generic enough to encompass all inputs and variations, but also specific enough to only tie to the implementation you desire. A large part of being successful in this task is to […]
Kali Linux (http://www.kali.org) is a collection of free penetration testing and security auditing tools, all packaged into a single Linux distribution.
I’m often asked what makes mobile testing so different that testing anything else? The simple answer is your goal. When we test a web application, per say, the goal of our testing is to often ensure that the application fulfills the requirements as directed by the product owner, that it meets any standards set by […]
I recently gave a presentation to undergraduate students about some of the challenges of working on large-scale software development projects. One of the key challenges that I highlighted was communication. Although this is not specific to a software development project, it is extremely important. If communication is not performed properly, then it becomes nearly impossible […]
Introduction Once I saw that Java 8 was released, I decided it was time to start looking in depth at the new enhancements to the language. I admit, I didn’t follow this release as closely as I did 7, so the only enhancement I knew of was lambda expressions. As I read through the documentation, […]
Introduction A large part of writing Cucumber Glue Code is ensuring you have the perfect regular expression for the Step Definition. So we’re taking a break from our usual direct Cucumber posts, and dedicating this post to the setup for next month’s post. Regular Expressions A regular expression, or regex for short, is a pattern […]
Introduction Before we dive into best practices and tricks in writing our glue code, we want to cover a few last tricks on keeping our Feature files clean. The first of which is how to utilize the Background feature to pull out common test steps. Background Often times when writing multiple scenarios within a singular […]
