Tag: testing
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Test-Driven Development with Python: a Primer
Making sure the software we build works the way we (and our customers) want it to work is called, unsurprisingly, software testing. Software testing is an enormous topic; indeed, there are entire books, courses, conferences, academic journals, and more about the topic. One can even make a career out of testing software. We couldn’t possibly…
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Improving Browser Automation Tests: How to Add Microsoft Edge and Edgedriver to Linux CI Systems
Lately, the Microsoft Edge browser has been growing in popularity, recently unseating Firefox as the 3rd most popular web browser and approaching Safari in the number two spot. This means that any web application with a potentially wide user base should include MS Edge tests in its automated test suite. Setting this up to run…
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Getting Started With Browser Automation Testing in Python
Developers have unit tests to test atomic functionality and integration tests to test system interoperability. Web developers have to take it a step further and test actual browser behavior. This can be done in many ways, but most often it’s with some implementation of Selenium webdriver and an xUnit testing framework. In this article, I’m…
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SQL Server Indexing: Part 3 – Implementing and Testing Indexes
In part 1 of this series, we learned about the basics of indexes, what they do, and what they’re for. In part 2, we talked about query plans. We learned about reading query plans so that we could understand how SQL Server goes about retrieving the data we ask for. This is an important first…