Cypress – a genuine alternative to Selenium at last?
Cypress could be about to change the way we write front-end automation tests for the better.
All tagged Automated Testing
Stop bloating your test suites and start taking advantage of automation
Automation should help us to achieve the speed to market we all aspire to. So why do so many teams insist on overloading their test suites to the point that they become a counter-intuitive burden?
Integration testing: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
A good test harness is an essential safety net in any code base. Tests save us from ourselves – from writing bad functions, regressing existing features, and creating user journeys with dead ends. Most importantly, they give us a sense of trust that what we release to the world, while never perfect, is at least functional and getting better and better all the time.
London React Meetup – April 2016
An evening of testing workflows and dynamically built forms awaited visitors to Code Node last Wednesday when the London React Meetup was once again in town. Tom Duncalf kicked things off by describing what he has found to be effective unit and integration testing strategies for React applications.
Open bank platforms for lean teams
There is a new wave of banking startups offering things that have been impossible earlier with conventional banks. Software is eating the world; disrupting existing conventions and rules.
TestExpo 2015: fragments of a dream
Too often in my career I have found that testing is exactly like water, gravity or Google: you don’t realise how important it is to your life, until you suddenly lose it for some reason.
Ansible
There’s something built into us that drives us to automate everything. Every manual thing we don’t have to do frees us up to do something more exciting and useful.
Benefits of Automated Testing
Throughout a testers life, we would have asked ourselves the question ‘To automate or not to automate’
What is Specification by Example?
Setting Business goals, gathering requirements and providing specifications are fundamental activities of product development. However these activities are only partially covered by traditional Agile methodologies, which tell us how to build software the right way but not necessarily how to build the right software.
BBC Connected Studio – a fun day of innovation
BBC R&D are looking at innovation all the time with the real possibility that some of the very cool new tech they are currently working on not surfacing for another 10 to 20 years.The Connected Studio is an initiative to look at how the BBC can innovate just a little beyond the existing roadmap for digital.
How the Cloud underpins Red Badger’s Business
At Red Badger, we’re huge fans of the cloud and we try to persuade our clients to be too. Where possible, we base the products/services that we are developing on cloud infrastructure for its many obvious advantages.