Questions tagged [test-automation]
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Monitor newly released code without real traffic
As new code is released to production, without enough direct access to production execution environments I rely only on user traffic for monitoring. However not all use cases get covered via user ...
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How to check a solution method submitted by a user?
I am developing a website somewhat like leetcode, however, it will be for website testing using Selenium WebDriver.My service will provide different websites, along with various tasks that describe ...
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How to handle dependencies when writing characterization tests
I am currently working on a codebase that is full of objects that are 3000+ lines long and have at least 20 dependencies each, and I'm about to try covering them with characterization tests before I ...
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How to avoid class-proliferation when creating a unit-testable system?
I've been working on a personal project for some time, and I believe that I'm at that point where, if I don't embrace unit tests (and ideally TDD) now, it may be too late, so I want to make the right ...
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Is it a code smell to put selection strategy concerns in an enum class?
Right now, I have this enum, called MemberCategory, defined to be:
public enum MemberCategory {
MEMBERSHIP("Membership"),
GOLD_MEMBERSHIP("Gold"),
SILVER_MEMBERSHIP(&...
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Automated testing: should I check a sub-function was called, or should I check it's result?
I have a big function that does several things, including some database operations, and calling another smaller function. Something like:
BigFunction()
{
DB.SomeTable.AddRow(newRow);
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How to use release toggles with Acceptance Test Driven Development?
One of the advantages of feature / release toggles is that you can integrate and deploy code without releasing it. But how does that work with ATDD? If I write some tests that are failing, because I'm ...
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Is it necessarily a code smell to programmatically create expectation models for test cases?
I'm responsible for staging some tests, against some members, namely against the rates that are due for them. After talking about it with my peers, I see the members are a function of three other ...
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How to test variable values which differ due to floating point inaccuracy caused by different DBMS types?
I am working on a program that needs to work on floating point values that are fetched from different database types: currently we support 12 different DBMS (for example, two of them are Sqlite3 and ...
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Should a large number of system tests be part of the build?
I believe extensive automated unit tests should be part of the build. However the testing pyramid suggests that there should be a much smaller number of system tests.
Should an automatic build include ...
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How to identify scope of end-to-end automation testing?
We are struggling in deciding scope of end-to-end tests. As per our understanding, we have automated the form exactly the way users interact with it. below are the steps user perform while submitting ...
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How to Mock Test Data for complicated Integration/GUI automated tests
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We recently had lots of problems with automated tests in our team. Part of it was that the people designated to writing them had little experience. After this failed, we incorporated ...
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Unit tests vs Automation testing
I'm a C# developer & never worked before on either unit tests or Selenium browser test automation.
For a current assignment, there is an existing Visual Studio solution that has a project that ...
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Should automated testing be specified in software requirements?
When defining software requirements, should automated testing (unit and integration) be specified? I have not seen any guidance on this, and "testing" is not a functional requirement for the software. ...
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Unexpected Code Coverage Reduction
I am adding unit tests to some existing code which initially was not tested at all.
I have set up my CI system to fail builds where the code coverage percentage is reduced compared to previous build -...
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