Links tagged “testing”

brandur.org

clone a template database per test for fast, isolated Postgres tests.

antirez.com

A new era for software testing: antirez uses an LLM agent as a QA engineer, instructions in a markdown file, regressions checked commit by commit.

github.com

cle-b/hookdns: easy way to patch dns resolution (python)

github.com

modern: pytest plugin that enhances the testing framework with modern outputs and ideas

obeythetestinggoat.com

Explains why Selenium cannot tell a navigation from an in-page click, and gives a context manager that waits on stale element references instead.

codewithoutrules.com

Guide for Java developers moving to Python, covering type annotations and mypy, access-control conventions, testing with pytest and tox, static analysis and Sphinx docs.

cassette.readthedocs.io

Documentation for Cassette, a Python library that stores the HTTP requests an application makes and replays them later.

eev.ee

Practical case for testing aimed at people who dislike it, arguing for a friendly framework like pytest, tests over what you already check by hand, and fast reliable runs.

github.com

Example code for the EuroPython 2016 talk "Testing the untestable, a beginner's guide to mock objects".

mockextras.readthedocs.io

Documentation for mockextras, a library adding a fluent configuration API, stubs and argument matchers to Python's unittest.mock.

medium.com

A rundown of Node.js project tooling — Mocha and CucumberJS for tests, Istanbul and Coveralls for coverage, JSHint and Code Climate for quality, David for dependencies.

jasmine.github.io

Jasmine, a dependency-free behaviour-driven testing framework for JavaScript that runs in the browser and on Node.js.

mochajs.org

Mocha, a JavaScript test framework for Node.js and the browser, built around straightforward asynchronous testing and flexible reporters.

medium.com

Argues that Tape's minimal, dependency-free assertions produce better unit tests than the larger feature surface of Mocha or Jasmine.

github.com

Command-line HTTP client with JSON support, colourised output, sessions and downloads, aimed at testing and talking to web APIs.

nedbatchelder.com

@LionelTouati http://t.co/Vy5sxmQ2

code.google.com

Project page for Multi-Mechanize, a Python framework that replays python-mechanize scripts across processes and threads to generate load against a site or web service.

martinfowler.com

Canonical account of continuous integration: everyone merges to mainline at least daily, and an automated build with tests verifies each integration.

geosoft.no

A numbered checklist of rules for writing unit tests — keep them small, fast, fully automated, independent of each other and readable.

tsung.erlang-projects.org

Home page of Tsung, an open-source distributed load-testing tool written in Erlang that stresses HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, database, LDAP and XMPP servers.