Two Things I Missed Functional Testing with WebTest

Two Things I Missed Functional Testing with WebTest

Ian Bicking’s WebTest is a helpful module for running functional tests against a WSGI app. You may already be using it, it’s the suggested way to test Pyramid apps, TurboGears and Google App Engine, and (although I have no experience with this) you can use...

Lightweight BDD for iOS and OS X

I took a look at GitHub’s Mantle framework for iOS and Cocoa last Fall and am using it in one of my side projects this Spring. While reading through the Mantle source I noticed some dependencies on the Specta testing and Expecta matcher framework, neither of...

Book Review: How Google Tests Software

This past week I finished reading the very interesting book, How Google Tests Software. I first heard about this book from an IT-Conversations interview with one of its co-authors, James Whittaker. The interview provides a good overview of many of the key points made...

Cocoapods for Testing HTTP Interactions

When writing code to access resources over HTTP or another protocol it’s great to write some tests to make sure that code is working well, but running them can be a pain when working over a slow connection, with large requests, or when working offline. Two great...