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Unit Testing on Mobile Devices with .NET/Mono
An ongoing problem with specialized platforms is the lack of support for unit testing. Developers are forced to compromise the quality of their tests or their build process in order to get anything working. Recently MonoTouch has made progress in this area, but Windows Phone and Mono for Android still lag behind.
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SQL Server Unit Testing with tSQLt
tSQLt is a free, open-source framework for unit testing in SQL Server. By writing tSQLt test cases, developers can create fake tables and views based on production data, then compare expected versus actual results. Tests can be created directly in SQL Server Management Studio.
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Byteman 2.0.0: Bytecode Manipulation, Testing, Fault Injection, Logging
JBoss has released Byteman 2.0.0, an open source Java bytecode manipulation tool licensed under GNU LGPL 2.1. Byteman is a Java agent which helps testing, tracing, and monitoring code. It allows developers to change the operation of Java applications, either as it is loaded or during runtime.
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.NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio
Red Gate's .NET Demon is a new Visual Studio tool that continuously tests, compiles, and auto-saves code in the background.
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IBM is now wearing a Green Hat
On January 4th, IBM announced it is going to acquire the cloud and SOA integration service company Green Hat. Testing is one of the main challenges when developing cloud or SOA based applications. Buying Green Hat IBM hopes to offer more productive testing approaches and other benefits for such types of large scale software systems. Green Hat will be integrated into IBM Rational Solution.
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SQL Test Brings tSQLt Unit Testing to SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Test is the user interface for tSQLt, the open source unit testing framework for SQL Server. From the SQL Test window, users can create test classes, view existing unit tests, execute them, and view the results within a dockable panel in SQL Server Management Studio.
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Automated Testing Solutions for Android
There are a number of automated testing frameworks or tools for Android applications, including but not limited to Activity Instrumentation, MonkeyRunner, Robotium, or Robolectric. LessPainful is providing automated tested on real devices as a service.
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Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11
Team Foundation Server 11 has added many features in the area of Application Lifecycle Management. Some of the highlights include support for code reviews, iterations/sprints, resource allocation, third part testing frameworks, and a much more capable dependency graph.
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Gorilla Logic Release FlexMonkey 5, Open Source Testing Tool for Adobe Flex and AIR
Gorilla Logic have today announced the availability of FlexMonkey 5, their open source automated testing tool for Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Testing a Browser’s JavaScript Compatibility with Test 262
The recently released ECMAScript 262 5.1 fixes bugs in the previous major version 5.0, and is accompanied by Test 262, an online JavaScript compatibility test suite.
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Janova and EdgeCase build Testing Tool in seven Months
The experts of the software company EdgeCase have recently assisted the Enterprise Architecture Company Janova from Ohio in building a Web-based, automated testing tool. The tool is provided as a Cloud-based application that enables users to define the test scripts used for Batch Processing in plain English. For its implementation the developers leveraged the programming language Ruby.
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Will Machiel van der Bijl make manual Software Testing obsolete?
Machiel van der Bijl from the University of Twente in the Netherlands recently introduced a Model-based testing approach which is supposed to automate software testing.
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Testing in the Cloud
Cloud testing is a testing approach in which the power of the cloud is harnessed. This is mostly done either to decrease the amount of time taken to test or to simulate real world traffic for an application. Moreover, in order to meet the scalability demands of high traffic web applications, tests need to scale as well.
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Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH): Test Your Configuration Management
A Google search for “devops” yields tons of interesting postings and even a couple of manifestos. Refine the search further to “devops quality” and the results become less direct; “devops testing” simply doesn’t exist according to Google. That said, things are starting to change. In late April Greg Retkowski released Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH), for unit-testing infrastructure automation.
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Coverity releases new tool for Code Governance
The privately owned US company Coverity claims that its newly released and browser-based software tool Coverity Integrity Control supports development organizations to set standard policies for code quality and security, and then manage, monitor and report on these policies as code is tested.