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Marc Tamlyn
July 12, 2013
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Automated testing
They why, what and how of automated testing for a mixed technical and non-technical audience.
Marc Tamlyn
July 12, 2013
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Transcript
Automated Testing Lunch n Learn @incuna
What is it? • Unit tests • Integration tests •
Functional/acceptance tests • Visual tests • Regression tests
Why? • Trust in the code • Freedom to refactor
• Reduce number of bugs
What is it not? • A complete replacement for QA,
a useful tool for doing QA • For content
Types of test
Unit tests • Test small specific pieces of functionality •
Cover as many cases as possible • (Should be) quick and easy • Fragile but isolated • Mock out other layers • Coverage
Integration tests • Work across multiple layers of the program
• Ensure all the individual pieces fit together • Simulate real requests • Test only “normal” things • Should break less often
Functional or Acceptance tests • Test the whole system •
Test user stories • “Open up browser, go to home page, click on login link, fill in correct information, redirects to profile page, click on forum navigation, make a post, post appears on page...”
Functional or Acceptance tests • SLOW, and harder to write
• More likely part of the QA process than the development process • Immensely useful for front end logic
Visual tests • Does this page look like this screenshot?
• Cross browser • Needs research...
Regression testing
Regression tests • “AAAA this is broken we must fix
it now” • “I’ll write a test for it” • A bug is not a bug, it’s a missing test • Makes sure the bug doesn’t come back
Regression tests • Could be any one of the other
kinds of test • Never get written if the project didn’t have tests to start with
Continuous integration
Continuous integration • Runs test suite against changes and pull
requests • Warns us if someone breaks things • Runs in a production-like setting
Test driven development
Test driven development • Write the tests first • Add
code afterwards • (Refactor) • Check tests still pass • Repeat
Test driven development • Feels slower to start with •
More reliable than “refreshing the page to see if it worked” • Requires good tools • Saves time (and face) in the long run
Live demo time!