Blackbox Testing Web Apps
Remi Taylor present a short demo of RackBox. RackBox adds Merb-style blackbox testing to Rack apps (including Rails). RackBox home page
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Software Testing Videos and Tutorials
SQL Injection with sqlmap
A short introduction to sqlmap. sqlmap is an open source command-line automatic SQL injection tool. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities in web applications. Find more information about this on the original post
Test-Driving GUIs (with RubyCocoa)
Test-driven design is probably more popular in the Ruby community than in other language communities. Nevertheless, test-driven design of graphical user interfaces is still seen as something of a black art. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how to test-drive a Mac GUI, using either RubyCocoa or MacRuby. I’ll concentrate on …
BDD with Cucumber
Cucumber is a BDD tool that aids in outside-in development by executing plain-text features/stories as automated acceptance tests. Written in conjunction with the stakeholder, these Cucumber “features†clearly articulate business value and also serve as a practical guide throughout the development process: by explicitly outlining the expected outcomes of various …
Cucumber and Watir 101
Dave Hoover demonstrates how to use Watir with Cucumber. Actually, he uses his own library SafariWatir, but you could easily swap it with Watir, FireWatir, ChromeWatir or Celerity. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language …
80:20 rules! – Building software smarter
Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we …