by Noam | Feb 2, 2014 | Testing
The screen resolution and the Ranorex Studio debugger affect the execution speed of the test run. Ranorex Studio is built on top of the excellent open source SharpDevelop IDE, which is designed to mimic the Visual Studio IDE. This gives Ranorex many advanced...
by Noam | Feb 2, 2014 | Testing
Ranorex can run UI automation tests at a very fast pace. But as test suites and repositories grow, they become more complex and execution speed tends to suffer. Christian Breitwieser, one of Ranorex’s excellent test automation engineers, and I ran some experiments to...
by Noam | Dec 21, 2013 | Development, Testing
My first presentation at the December 2013 Sela Developer Conference was on testing ASP.NET MVC Web Apps. My talk focuses on helping MVC programmers get started with unit tests and spec tests. It talks about using the right tools for the job and gives a general...
by Noam | Mar 16, 2012 | Development, Testing
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled ’til I set him free. – Michelangelo My last post, about what my colleague Yuval Mazor coined “post-tdd-ism”, came under some criticism. It was mostly triggered, understandably, by the last sentence of...
by Noam | Mar 10, 2012 | Development, Testing
Students and clients approach me too many times asking for my take on whether unit tests should be written before or after the code they test. They often tell me that they’ve read or been told that if they write the unit test “after”, it can’t be considered TDD –...
by Noam | Mar 8, 2012 | Testing
If you’ve been told that the difference between unit tests and integration tests is that unit tests are isolated, you’ve been misinformed. That is, unit tests are isolated, but that’s not the difference. You might be asking yourself what the real difference is, but...
