testing.md

Testing

Acceptance Testing

• James Shore, Alternatives to Acceptance Testing.
• James Shore, The Problems With Acceptance Testing.

Automated Tests in General

• Gojko Adzic, Five ways to reduce the cost of large test suites.
• J. B. Rainsberger, Clearing Up the Integrated Tests Scam.
• Jason Gorman, Do You Write Automated Tests When You Spike?.
• Jay Fields, Thoughts on Developer Testing.
• Kostis Kapelonis, Software Testing Anti-patterns.

Characterization Testing

• Michael Feathers, Characterization Testing: Writing tests to describe and fix existing code.

Contract Tests

• Martin Fowler, IntegrationContractTest.

End-to-End Testing

• Adam Bender, Testing on the Toilet: What Makes a Good End-to-End Test?.

Exploratory Testing

• Gojko Adzic, Explore capabilities, not features.
• Lisa Crispin, Pair Testing.

Microservices Testing

• André Schaffer, Testing of Microservices.
• Lee Eason, The Test Automation Diamond.

Mutation Testing

• Robert Martin, Mutation Testing.

QA Environment

• Michael Nygard, QA Instability Implies Production Instability.

Test Doubles

• Dillon Bly, Testing on the Toilet: Only Verify Relevant Method Arguments.
• J. B. Rainsberger, When is it safe to introduce test doubles?.
• Martin Fowler, Mocks Aren't Stubs.
• Robert Martin, When to Mock.

Test-Driven Development

• J. B. Rainsberger, How TDD Affects My Designs.
• J. B. Rainsberger, The Myth of Advanced TDD.
• J. B. Rainsberger, What your tests don't need to know will hurt you.
• J. B. Rainsberger, Your Tests Are Dragging You Down.
• Jason Gorman, Classic TDD Mistake - Writing Design-Driven Tests.
• Jason Gorman, Squaring The Circle of "Tell, Don't Ask" vs. Test As Close To Implementation As Possible.
• Jason Gorman, TDD & Mocks - Working Backwards From Expectations.
• Jason Gorman, Triangulating Your Test Code.
• Jason Gorman, What Not To Do In a TDD Pair Programming Interview.
• Jay Fields, Some Test Driven Development observations:
  • Some Test Driven Development observations
  • More Test Driven Development observations
• Kent Beck, test && commit || revert.
• Nat Pryce, Two Hypotheses per Test.
• Robert Martin, TDD Harms Architecture.
• Robert Martin, Test Contra-variance.
• Robert Martin, Test First.
• Robert Martin, The Cycles of TDD.
• Robert Martin, The Frenzied Panic of Rushing.
• Robert Martin, The Pragmatics of TDD.
• Robert Martin, When Should You Think?.

Testing in Production

• Cindy Sridharan, Testing in Production, the safe way.
• Cindy Sridharan, Testing Microservices, the sane way.

Types of Tests

• Ham Vocke, The Practical Test Pyramid. A long article with examples about the most common types of tests: unit, integration, contract, UI, end-to-end, acceptance and exploratory.
• Martin Fowler, IntegrationTest.
• Nat Pryce, Visualising Test Terminology.

Unit Testing

• Alex Eagle, Testing on the Toilet: Change-Detector Tests Considered Harmful.
• Andrew Trenk, Testing on the Toilet: Prefer Testing Public APIs Over Implementation-Detail Classes.
• Ben Yu, Testing on the Toilet: Keep Cause and Effect Clear.
• Bill Wake, 3A – Arrange, Act, Assert.
• Dave Thomas, Testing Private Functions.
• James Shore, Testing Private Methods.
• Jay Fields, Tests reflect code quality.
• Michael Feathers, A Set of Unit Testing Rules.
• Nat Pryce, Test Data Builders:
  • Test Data Builders: an alternative to the Object Mother pattern.
  • Tricks with Test Data Builders: Defining Common State.
  • Tricks with Test Data Builders: Combining Builders.
  • Tricks with Test Data Builders: Emphase the Domain Model with Factory Methods.
  • Tricks with Test Data Builders: Refactoring Away Duplicated Logic Creates a Domain Specific Embedded Language for Testing.