Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?

kevinwilliampang.com — Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has long been the ultimate goal of testing fanatics. But is code coverage really all that useful? If I told you that my application has 100% code coverage, should that mean anything to you? read more...

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How to convince developers and management to use automated unit test f

msmvps.com — Introducing automated unit testing in the middle of your product development is hard, especially when you have a live product without thousands of features and being sold to customers. It's incredibly hard to take some break in development and invest the time in building automated unit test where everyone is so forced to build new features only. This article tells you about some ways to convince Developers and then senior Management to take the time to write automated unit tests for a better future. read more...

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Creating an Agile Environment

methodsandtools.com — Migrating to Agile is more than changing your process. It also requires a change in culture. For most companies changing culture is the most difficult part. I believe this is true for several reasons. These issues should be addressed in two ways. First, you want to address the culture needs of each group head on. We will lay out a game plan for obtaining support from line management, the team, the individual and executive management. read more...

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ScottGu: Unit Testing with Silverlight

published 8 months, 2 days ago, submitted by Jemm 8 months, 2 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests. read more...

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Waterfall Doesn't Work

lostechies.com — Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems. read more...

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