Category Archives: Testing

Testing for Android with Robotium

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

Android’s built-in testing framework is lacking on a number of levels. Enter Robotium, an open-source project. Robotium connects the dots by extending Android’s testing framework and providing convenience methods to help developers rapidly create tests. In this entry I will … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Java, Testing, Tools, UI | 4 Comments

Unit Testing with Groovy

Posted on June 23, 2012 by

This post is about unit testing with Groovy. Groovy was the first language I used after Java. It lets me do a lot of the things I do with Java, but more quickly. Like many developers who are using another … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Testing | 3 Comments

How to Stop Cucumber Becoming Technology Roadkill

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

I’ve worked on a number of projects with Cucumber now, and I think it is a terrific tool. However, I’ve been seeing it used in ways that it was not originally intended for, the consequence being acceptance-test suites that grow … Continue reading →

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A Continuous Delivery of Business Value.

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

The goal of this article is to discuss how improving the automated testing aspects of a continuous delivery project led to dramatic improvements in quality and delivered real business value to a leading bank in Melbourne Australia. It will cover … Continue reading →

Posted in Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Testing, Tools | 1 Comment