nice post on real-life testing strategies from @robb1e

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nice post on real-life testing strategies from @robb1e

In order to improve the build time of a recent project, we took steps to identify and split out our build based on an emergent testing strategy. I will try to outline that strategy based on things we tried and thoughts we had. In an attempt not to descend into a discussion over tools and library preferences, I will only mention our intentions and not tools. Where I supply code examples, these will be in pseudo code in the Given/When/Then style. We commonly use the ‘outside-in’ testing pattern, and that is how I will describe the steps we have taken when thinking about this strategy. End to end testing I believe there are two broad types of end to end testing which fit nicely into white box and black box testing methods. In both cases we drive the application from the outside interfaces, often a web UI. On this recent project we had an overwhelming number of tests that drov...

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@mpkhosla » 15 Oct '12, 4pm
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@lisacrispin » 15 Oct '12, 3pm
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