Category Archives: Testing

Test Driving Google Cloud Dataflow

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Shine Technologies

Back in June 2014, at the annual Google IO in San Francisco, Google unveiled their newest, and much hyped cloud product, Cloud Dataflow. The demo they did that day, using a live twitter feed to analyze supporter sentiment during the … Continue reading →

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Concordion Integration With Jenkins

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Shine Technologies

We recently introduced acceptance test driven development (ATDD) at a client. The idea was for the product owners, developers, and testers to work as a team to come up with the acceptance criteria for user stories before development begins. We adopted this approach … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing PHP and Silex using PHPUnit

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Shine Technologies

As a newcomer to PHP I was puzzled by how to unit test controllers and services when using Silex (if you’re wondering, Silex is based on the Symfony 2 framework and draws a lot of modules from it). In this post … Continue reading →

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Respect The Javascript

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Yes, it’s true. Javascript is so popular it can now be a full-time job. Many people used to coast through their daily jobs as a PHP, Rails, Java developer with a few $(..) statements, maybe a $(‘#message’).hide() (or a $(‘#message’).slideUp(); … Continue reading →

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Testing Backbone Views with QUnit and Sinon

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Unit-testing Backbone Views is hard. You need to cover enough for the test to be meaningful (for example DOM updates and server calls), without getting too tangled up in gory details. In this post I’ll talk about how we use … Continue reading →

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Testing for Android with Robotium

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Shine Technologies

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 →

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Unit Testing with Groovy

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Shine Technologies

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 →

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How to Stop Cucumber Becoming Technology Roadkill

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Shine Technologies

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 Shine Technologies

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 →

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