Test Strategy Example
Test strategies are often omitted because no-one ever reads them. And why aren’t they read? well, sidestepping “laziness”, it’s that too often they are unhelpful. So instead of sighing and drumming up something useless, why not generate something useful instead. Click here to view example of a risk based test strategy.
.NET Scalability
Summary Cache is King! Paging is good for your pages! Viewstate doesn’t have to be evil!
_VIEWSTATE and performance issues
Viewstate represents the state of the page when it was last processed on the server. ViewState is used to track and restore the state values of controls that would otherwise be lost, either because those values do not post with the form or because they are not in the page html.
TDD with Visual Studio 2010 and C#
With all the unit tools available, and which are largely included in every IDE, following a TDD (Test Driven Development) process is easy. Here is how to follow the TDD principle in Visual Studio.
Selenium and proxies
It is common when trying to automated web tests within company, you will be behind an HTTP proxy that requires authentication. To get round this, you have to specify the proxy details when starting Selenium.
ATDD for team communication
Acceptance Test Driven Development, or ATDD, is a very effective technique for driving and guiding development, that helps enhancing communication between developers and other project stakeholders, document your product, and report on project progress.
Dark Patterns
We have all experienced the nightmares of badly designed sites – especially stressful when on a ecommerce of service website where we have to go through various form processes. But there is bad design that is there deliberately – using psychology and subterfuge to trick the user into selecting options/purchases they never intended to get [...]
