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Tips to Avoid Brittle UI Tests

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the last article I talked about a few ideas and patterns, like the Page Object pattern, that help write maintainable UI tests. In this article we are...

Mehdi Khalili • 14 Oct 2013
Testing

Advanced Unit Testing Techniques in JavaScript

Tutorial • Intermediate

By now, everyone knows about Test-Driven Development and unit testing. But are you using the testing frameworks to their fullest?

Guido Kessels • 25 Jun 2013
Testing

Headless Functional Testing with Selenium and PhantomJS

Tutorial • Advanced

Let's build a system for performing functional tests on web applications, using Selenium and PhantomJS. The resulting system will allow us to write easy test...

Denis Sokolov • 5 Mar 2013
Laravel

Testing Like a Boss in Laravel: Models

Tutorial • Advanced

If you're hoping to learn why tests are beneficial, this is not the article for you. Over the course of this tutorial, I will assume that you already...

Zizaco Zizuini • 18 Feb 2013
Testing

How to Use Selenium 2 With PHPUnit

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this lesson, we will learn how to work with Selenium 2 directly within PHPUnit. For those unfamiliar, Selenium gives us an easy way to automate the...

Jeffrey Way • 13 Oct 2012
Testing

Let's TDD a Simple App in PHP

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, I will present an end-to-end example of a simple application - made strictly with TDD in PHP. I will walk you through each step, one at a...

Patkos Csaba • 6 Aug 2012
Testing

Test-Driven Development in PHP: First Steps

Tutorial • Intermediate

Let's admit it: the PHP community has lagged a bit, when it comes to advocating test-driven development. We know we should, but, even to this day, a sizable...

Jeffrey Way • 13 Jul 2012
Testing

Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD

Tutorial • Beginner

Sooner or later, all developers are required to interact with an API. The most difficult part is always related to reliably testing the code we write, and,...

Claudio Ortolina • 28 Jan 2012
Testing

Test-Driven JavaScript Development in Practice

Tutorial • Intermediate

TDD is an iterative development process where each iteration starts by writing a test which forms a part of the specification we are implementing. The short...

Christian Johansen • 14 Jan 2012
Testing

The Newbie's Guide to Test-Driven Development

Tutorial • Beginner

Testing your code is annoying, but the impact of not doing so can be orders of magnitude more annoying! In this article, we'll use test-driven development to...

Nikko Bautista • 28 Sep 2011
Testing

Testing Your JavaScript With Jasmine

Tutorial • Intermediate

We all know we should be testing our code, but we don’t actually do it. I guess it’s fair to say that most of us put it off because, nine times out of ten,...

Andrew Burgess • 4 Aug 2011
Testing

13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work

Tutorial • Beginner

Every day, when reviewing templates on ThemeForest, I test the submissions for validation and browser compatibility - not to mention my own work as well....

Jarel Remick • 29 Jul 2009