Hi all, following on Sawyer's talk about version control, I've been thinking of doing another talk about a different software best practice: automated software testing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation Since I'm a big practitioner and advocate of writing automated tests and test- driven development, the topic is close to my heart and I can prove of some assistance in researching and preparing the material for the presentation. But I'm not a good speaker so I'm looking for someone to actually deliver the talk. Would anyone stand forward and can give a talk about it? Some useful items to cover: 1. The motivation for automated tests - providing a spec for the program, making sure bugs not resurface, preventing bugs, avoiding over-engineering, having confidence in the code, etc. 2. Short introduction to automated tests by writing tests for the classic "add two numbers" demo. 3. Overview of various approaches for testing frameworks - TestUnit, BDD (rSpec, etc.), Ruby's cucumber, perl's TAP, testml, etc. 4. Testing various kinds of domains: - Testing APIs. - Testing Command line apps. - Testing terminal (curses, etc.) applications. - Testing websites. - Testing GUI programs. 5. Various kinds of tests: - Unit tests. - Integration tests. - System tests. 6. Test coverage and beyond (see http://www.mail-archive.com/boston...@mail.pm.org/msg04588.html ). - Should you aspire for full test coverage? ----------------------- If you'd like to volunteer for that, please let us know at t...@cs.tau.ac.il . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
