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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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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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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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