February 16, 2023
I gave a course recently on unit testing in Angular, and we were looking at some code the developers wrote, and we wanted to test. It looked something like this: someApiCallAsync(p1, p2, …) .then(response => { if (response.ok){ …. }… Continue Reading…
September 7, 2021
Testing UI is hard. Or is it? It really depends on what we’re talking about when we’re saying “UI testing”. This question came up recently in the “Unit Wars” webinar. And I think that it requires a deeper answer. I… Continue Reading…
August 24, 2021
I was asked in a recent webinar: What is the purpose of unit testing frameworks? That’s a cool question, and while it seems an easy answer, the way we use a framework makes it more subtle. In the beginning, a… Continue Reading…
August 11, 2021
Articles are the best, right? So I’ve got one for you. By yours truly, it was published on the great InfoQ site. It’s called “Improving Testability” and I won’t say what’s it about, suspense is everything. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry,… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2023
It’s that time of year. Summer’s a bit slow, but with COVID running free as a bug, it’s time to pit two behemoths against each other: JUnit or TestNG? Which do you choose for your next Java project? Turn your… Continue Reading…
July 27, 2021
Do you know how much bugs cost? Not the big exploding ones. Not the ones you read about in the news. Just regular bugs from work. The ones you put in last week, and one you fix by the end… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2023
You know that feeling when you’re writing a test, and you start of all fresh and energetic, and write the Arrange, the setup part? And that takes much of you, but you keep on going, you get to Act part,… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2023
So, is it possible? Are the legends true? As always, it depends. But in this webinar I’m tackling one of the worst beasts in coding – TDD an API. I know, I know. They said it couldn’t be done. But… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2023
Does the light in the fridge stay on when you close the door? It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries. I’ve almost hired a detective to check that, but then I remembered my engineering background, and the mystery was solved. But… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2023
A few weeks back I was working with a client on TDD. We were working on the first part of a new application, to figure out the design. We wrote a test first, of course, for an end-to-end, happy-path scenario.… Continue Reading…