Software Development Tutorials about Software Testing

Effective DevOps for Organizations

softdevtube.com — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:58:13 +0000

DevOps is still hot, but far too often it feels like it makes things harder. This presentation will help you fix that. As an IT professional, you are probably in an organization still figuring out how to implement DevOps. Maybe you have specialist DevOps roles or teams, or maybe you’ve …

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Becoming a Skeptic Software Tester

softdevtube.com — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:14:33 +0000

“I don’t know”. These might just be the hardest words to say in any language. We avoid saying them, scared of coming across as doubtful and uncertain. This fear is understandable as we admire those who are knowledgeable and confident, even more so in a professional context. As software testers, …

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Separating Allocation from Code

softdevtube.com — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:14:53 +0000

My development career has taken me from AAA games to high performance server programming to front end web applications. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot through following seemingly counter-intuitive advice. I was taught to write tests before my code. This made no sense at first, but gradually it became …

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Programming with GUTs

softdevtube.com — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:23:50 +0000

These days testing is considered a sexy topic for programmers. Who’d have thought it? But what makes for good unit tests (GUTs)? There’s more to effective unit testing than just knowing the assertion syntax of a framework. Testing represents a form of communication and, as such, it offers multiple levels …

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BDD for PHP with PhpStorm and PhpSpec

softdevtube.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:49:12 +0000

This video explains the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) workflow in PhpStorm IDE and show you how to drive the design of your code with PhpSpec. With a focus on refactoring, source and file navigation, live templates and autocompletions you can learn how to shorten your development feedback loop and write well …

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Performance Best Practices with PageSpeed

softdevtube.com — Mon, 12 May 2014 18:45:24 +0000

The PageSpeed family of tools is designed to help you optimize the performance of your website. PageSpeed Insights products will help you identify performance best practices that can be applied to your site, and PageSpeed optimization tools can help you automate the process. This video explains: * Insights products to …

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The Performance Of Others

softdevtube.com — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:33:47 +0000

Once you start monitoring real users you understand it’s not just about your own performance. In fact one of the first things you discover is how blind you really are. You see degrading load times and don’t know what caused them, so you have to come up with a good …

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Delicious Controversy: Documentation and Tests

softdevtube.com — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:48:56 +0000

Self-documenting code is a pipe dream. TDD (or BDD) is not the panacea of testing. In the pursuit of test coverage we’ve forgotten what really matters: getting things done. Lets talk about putting documentation and testing into their proper place. Tools that ease maintenance, help other developers join a project, …

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All Projects Should Do Usability Testing!

softdevtube.com — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:22:59 +0000

Is the app you’re developing supposed to be used by humans? Then you should do usability testing! User interfaces have errors just like any other part of IT systems. You test your code, but are you testing the user interface? Are you sure you’re getting the right input? Are you …

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Revolutionizing Continuous Integration with Selenium

softdevtube.com — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:41:18 +0000

In a perfect world you’d expect developed code to be “bug-free” or “clean”. However as we all know, this is not a perfect world and there will always be bugs. Our goal is to capture as many of them as early as possible. This session will detail how we (Cars.com) …

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