Difference between acceptance test and functional test?
What is the real difference between acceptance tests and functional tests? What are the highlights or aims of each? Everywhere I read they are ambiguously similar. ...
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Writing unit tests in Python: How do I start?
I completed my first proper project in Python and now my task is to write tests for it. Since this is the first time I did a project, this is the first time I would be writing tests for it. The question is, how do I start? I have absolutely no idea. Can anyone point me to some documentation/ tutorial/ link/ book that I can use to start...
MSBuild/TFS Build property for the test results out directory path
I am running a build using TFS 2008 to build a Visual Studio 2010 solution. The build is set to run unit tests, and when it does, it creates a folder such as this to hold the test results: D:\Temp\MyApp\MyApp.Dev\TestResults\MyAccount_MyBuildServerName 2010-07-29 18_07_00_Any CPU_Release\Out\ Is there a built-in property I can use in ...
How do I test whether a Django response was generated by a particular view?
Hi, In writing unit tests for Django, how would I test whether a particular view was used in rendering a URL? I was hoping there would exist TestCase.assertViewUsed, but I can't see it. Thanks. ...
How do you perform integration tests with NSerivceBus?
I have Web Application that has 2 sets of services. One set is business services like UserService and another set that is utility services like EmailService. How the business services connect to the utility services is through NServiceBus. How do you perform integration tests in this scenario? What I've done right now is that I br...
Unit Testing .cpp How-To
Alright. I have done screen scrapping program in c++. Now how do i unit test a .cpp? where do i get started? ...
how to test mail() using PHPUnit
Hello, is there a way to test with PHPUnit (or maybe other testing framework for PHP) if mail is sent correctly? I have to test a code which uses PHP function mail() . With custom mailer class i could always make a mock, but for mail() ... ? Maybe there is some plugin which is capable to use IMAP and verify if mail is received? (and it ...
Pythonic way to intercept calls to a function?
For testing things that query the environment (e.g., os.getenv, sys.version, etc.), it's often more convenient to make the queries lie than to actually fake up the environment. Here's a context manager that does this for one os.getenv call at a time: from __future__ import with_statement from contextlib import contextmanager import os ...
TypeError: unbound method __init__() .... during unit tests after re-packaging
I've just repackaged my program. Previously all modules lived under the "whyteboard" package, with a "fakewidgets" package containing a bunch of dummy GUI test objects. Now, all my modules are in packages, e.g. whyteboard.gui, whyteboard.misc, whyteboard.test - which is where fakewidgets now lives. Now, when running my tests, I get an ...
Howto use BizTalk TestableReceivePipeline when having a schema which has an imported schema
Under Microsoft BizTalk 2009, we want to test the ReceivePipeline(which has a Flat file disassembler) with the built-in TestableReceivePipeline class. It works fine if we use one single Schema, but it throws an error (System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException: The 'ABC' element is not declared.) when we try to use a schema(Schema1) which has ...
How to compare Image objects with C# .NET?
Can we compare two Image objects with C#? For example, check whether they are equal, or even better check how similar are their pixels? if possible, how? ...
Test plans to be written according to design spec?
Hi, Is not it unusual? It seems that I should write the test plans just by the interface design spec but it is not telling much. Is there any approach that could be used here or I simply cannot produce any relieble tests based just on that? Thanks ...
Please help me setting up my Rails3 app testing tools
Hello, I'm starting a new rails 3 application, and I want it to be tested the better I can. This application is eavily based on plugins (wich will become gems later). One of this gem will be a proxy which talk with an API and outputs formatted data. Few plugins will process data sent by this proxy My questions : Should I use cucum...
Integration vs Unit Testing
Im developing with Grails. Since the framework will bootstrap data and a fully flushed out spring context, I find that I write a lot of integration tests for services. Let me rephrase that: I find I write no unit tests for services, only integration tests. Is this a bad idea? The only downside I see to it is that my tests take a bit...
How do I test modules/scripts that output/modify files?
I have a couple of modules (DZP::Catalyst and DZP::OurPkgVersion) both of their purposes involve writing out files to the disk. I'm not sure how to test them, are there any good strategies for testing files written out to disk? any place I could go to read up on it? ...
Performing a dictionary attack on my own site.
I would like to perform a dictionary attack, or, if it is easier an attack directly in the database with my hashed passwords in order to find out what users of my site are using simple passwords. I will be implementing some complexity rules when creating passwords but I would love to be able to contact the users who have simple dictiona...
how can i verify all links on a page as a black-box tester
I'm tryng to verify if all my page links are valid, and also something similar to me if all the pages have a specified link like contact. i use python unit testing and selenium IDE to record actions that need to be tested. So my question is can i verify the links in a loop or i need to try every link on my own? i tried to do this with _...
Using Cucumber/Capybara in Rails 3, how do I set a custom User-Agent string?
In my Rails 3 app, I have different layouts for iPhone vs desktop browsers. I'm trying to test the iPhone layout using Cucumber/Capybara. So far, all my attempts at setting an iPhone User-Agent string in the request's HTTP header have failed. I have followed the Testing custom headers and ssl with Cucumber and Capybara tutorial but it d...
Reference about testing distributed system
Hi, Do you know any good reference about testing distributed systems? It could be about main types of test for distributed systems, major tests, who are the main authors about it ... Thanks for any help, Giovanni ...
How do you setup a proxy for Jmeter's proxy server?
I would like to use Jmeter's proxy server to capture data into a thread group. The problem is, I am currently behind a proxy and to access my target page, i need to tell jmeter's proxy server to forward all requests to that proxy! Is this possible with jmeter? The documentation or the UI do not mention anything of it! ...