How can I find or generate thousands of company names for testing and demo purposes? (Address, phone number, and related information would be nice too.) I've got a system I'm building which includes business contact information. Pretty common no doubt. My test/demo database currently has randomly generated individual's names loaded...
I'm looking for resources/suggestions on real world cross-browser web site testing. In this case the emphasis is on simple web content rather than javascript/AJAX or a server side applications. I've looked at the web stats & made a list of the highest-used browsers. Then what? For example, I'd love to hear experiences with: Is there ...
I've got an application that needs quite a bit of data (1000s of records) to do appropriate testing. The only way I've found to get a decent set of testable, sensible data is to use a subset of my production DB. I've converted this to YAML fixtures in the normal `test/fixtures' location. This works, but now I have a bunch of seemingly...
On our Scrum board, tasks start at 'To Do', go to 'In Progress', and when you're done with a task, they move to 'To Verify' before ending up in 'Done'. The 'To Verify' column is when you're done with a task and someone else can have a look at it, test it, and comment on it. This has proven helpful for errors, better code, etc. To peopl...
If not, is smoke testing still used? ...
Where can I find comprehensive documentation for MOQ? I'm just starting with mocking and am having difficulty getting my head around it. I've read through all the links at http://code.google.com/p/moq/wiki/QuickStart but can't seem to find a tutorial or gentle introduction. I have also looked briefly at Rhino Mocks but found it very con...
I'd like to continually test the installer for a DirectX game I wrote on a clean, bare bones, WindowsXP environment (meaning no .Net, no DirectX, no Visual Studio, no game, etc.) to ensure the installer is covering all bases. I only have one clean test machine to use for this. Since my installer still needs a lot of work and testing, i...
I need to add unit testing to some old scripts, the scripts are all basically in the following form: #!/usr/bin/perl # Main code foo(); bar(); # subs sub foo { } sub bar { } If I try to 'require' this code in a unit test, the main section of the code will run, where as I want to be able to just test "foo" in isolation. Is there a...
How useful, if at all, is for the testers on a product team to know about the internal code details of a product. This does not mean they need to know every line of code but a good idea of how the code is structured, what is the object model, how the various modules are inter-linked, what are the inter-dependencies between various featur...
Hello As a Micro ISV I am coming to the stage in the development of a new desktop software application where beta testing it with an external group of users would be great. I would prefer private invite only beta testing as opposed to public free for all beta testing. Are there websites/organisations, both free or paid, where I can 'r...
Hi guys I know that there has been a couple questions about tutorials on rhino-mocks. But I am wondering if there are any sample apps out there that use rhino-mocks in the context of an n-tier business application using ado.net. I find the tutes good, but they don't seem to bring everything all together into the big picture. Thus, I ...
For a current project I am working on I need a way to keep track of test cases. We are currently using unfuddle to keep track of our bugs, documents and source code. Since our app is a fairly complex client/server piece, we need to do some of the testing manually. So, I am looking for a tool that will allow me to describe all the man...
I would like to stress test a win32 application by sending a lot of random keystrokes to it, and I wonder if anyone could point me to some software I could use. Ideally, I should be able to specify which keystrokes can be sent, and control rate (random min/max). ...
I am writing a program that will be emailing reports out many (~100) clients which I want to test before I spam everyone. I want to do a test run against my production data and actually send the messages to a SMTP server, but I don't want the SMTP server to actually deliver the messages. I want the server to act like a real SMTP server...
I produce server software and have been fine with all Linux environments so far, both for production and as deployment target. However, I want to provide a broader choice of target environments in the future and I'm also planning features that would consume and produce Office documents. As a first step, I am looking for a good way to ge...
Our testers are in the process of evaluating Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. As they are unfamiliar with the use of Visual Studio, I would like to give them as much help as I can. I have had a look on Amazon for books on the Test edition of VS.Net, but there is only one VS.Net 2005 test edition book. Does anyone know of an...
It exists the technology of mutation testing. It checks, if the tests are running even if you change the code. If not all is OK, if the tests are running they don't cover all eventualities. There is some theoretical work about it, but I'm interested in the question, if it is useful in practice? Do you have any examples of real life appli...
Hi guys I know that there has been a couple questions about tutorials on moq. But I am wondering if there are any sample apps out there that use moq in the context of an n-tier business application using ado.net. I find the tutes good, but they don't seem to bring everything all together into the big picture. Thus, I am looking for a s...
Hello I was wondering what the best practice is for unit testing abstract classes and classes that extend abstract classes. Should I test the abstract class by extending it and stubbing out the abstract methods and then test all the concrete methods? Then only test the methods I override and the abstract methods in the unit tests for o...
I've been handed the task of interviewing a candidate for a position I don't know much about. Call it bad management, the fact is I need to do the best I can. The testing position doesn't require any technical ability besides entering bugs in a very intuitive bug tracker system. I don't know much about the process, but I'm sure qualit...