Forget everything you know about testing, and start testing!

Presentation for YUIConf 2013
http://yuilibrary.com/yuiconf/2013/schedule/#david-gomez

Transcript

1. YUI CONF 2013 TALK
2. David Gomez in
3. Forget everything you know about testing... and start testing!
4. with Yahoo Search Front End Platform starring YUI as The Awesome Library Mojito as Itself
5. meeting or closer
6. Testing with Philosophy Chapter I
7. When tradition takes over it it blocks our access to the sources from which the concepts have been drawn. It makes us forget they had and origin, and makes us suppose that going back to these sources is something we need not even understand.
8. A change of the world presupposes a change of the conception of the world. That conception is only obtained by a sufficient interpretation.
9. Unlearn what you’ve been taught...
10. The Usual Suspects Chapter II
11. unit smoke regression functional integration load stress performance xUnit BDD Test Suite Test Case Test Method Assertion Feature Scenario Definition Specs The Usual Suspects
12. Not everybody shares the same concepts as you...
13. Find new meaning for old concepts
14. Why do we test? Chapter III
15. Modern software is increasingly complex
16. Time is always against us...
17. Why we don’t test? Chapter IV
18. Overconfidence...
19. Not enough support...
20. Tests are an obstacle...
21. We just don’t care...
25. Why wasn’t this bug caught?
26. It will happen to you...
27. How do we test? Chapter V
28. Find the Critical Path
29. Test soon, test often
30. Testing Mantra Know yourself (your code, your app) Find your own path (critical) Mindful practice (test, test, test!)
31. What kind of test? Chapter VI or The Usual Suspects, the Remake
32. Unit “First Line of Defense” Tests
33. Unit “First Line of Defense” Tests (as Design Documents) • Cucumber (http://cukes.info) • Technology Compatibility Kit • Implementation Independent features Scenario: Two-parameter step Given a scenario with: """ Given a calculator When the calculator adds up "12" and "51" Then the calculator returns "63" """ When Cucumber runs the scenario with steps for a calculator Then the scenario passes
34. Smoke “Bullet Proof Vest” Tests
35. Functional “Matrix” Tests
36. Load and Stress “Three Inch Punch” Tests
37. Performance “Speedy Gonzalez” Tests
38. Don’t test on the real environment...
39. Regression “Circle of Trust” Tests
40. End to End “Blade Runner” Tests
41. Tests and You Epilogue or To the Future and Beyond
42. Find a testing strategy that works for you...
43. Tests will protect you...
44. The future: Testing Patterns?
45. Tests will become your best friends...
46. David Gomez dgomez@yahoo-inc.com testautomatr.tumblr.com github.com/gomezd