Writing automated tests means writing code. It means going through processes that regular code goes through. Like code review, and refactoring. I see a lot of hesitation when it comes to refactoring one’s own code, possibly because we feel that if our code needs correction, we did a crappy job writing it the first time. But that is not the case, and refactoring should be seen as a good thing. It is meant for changing something from good to even better. Continue reading Refactoring is allowed
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A bug is still a bug
Do you know this situation, when you implemented some automated tests based on a requirement, but a test has been failing for ages because a bug in the implementation was never fixed? Continue reading A bug is still a bug
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The tester and the code review
Code review, although very important and frequent in the software development world, is not as frequent in the automation testing world. Normally, it would be part of the whole process: someone writes code, reviews it, makes it available to the rest of the team, they review it, and if changes are needed they will be made, and the improved code will now be available back to the team. This helps in having better code and having awareness inside the team on what is being implemented.
Code is still code, no matter whether it is created for implementing or testing a feature, so there should be code reviews for all of it. Continue reading The tester and the code review
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Why you need to test your production environment
It occurred to me lately, after chatting with some people from the testing community, that not everyone runs automated tests or does any kind of testing in the production environment. For me that seems a bit unnatural, since i have been doing it on all the projects that i worked on. So, here are a few thoughts that might convince you that you do need to run automated tests even in production: Continue reading Why you need to test your production environment
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Check that the value you think you typed into a field has actually been typed correctly
You are writing some automated tests with Selenium, that require you to fill in some text fields in a form. You are pretty confident you typed the values you expected to type, into the field you expected to type into. But, here are just 3 reasons why you should write some code that checks that you actually wrote what you thought, where you thought, before submitting the form you are trying to fill in.
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Test design: write tests with proper console output to easily identify failure reasons
When automated test are running, they are either running on your own machine (when you write them or run them to check something), or in your CI.
When you run the test on your machine, if there are failures, it might be easy for you to look at what is running (if you have some visual tests, that interact with either browsers or apps on your machine). You can just rerun a failed test and visually inspect for failure reasons. But, if tests are running on a CI machine, visual inspection is either very difficult or even impossible. You might not have access to connect to that machine, or to see how tests are being run. Continue reading Test design: write tests with proper console output to easily identify failure reasons
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Better Test Code Principles: #4 Keep your production tests separate from your dev environment ones
Automated tests are used to validate features in development environments but also in production. Whereas the classic approach of keeping all tests in the same code project is the most popular, it is not the best idea (and by code project i mean for example a Maven project). Continue reading Better Test Code Principles: #4 Keep your production tests separate from your dev environment ones
