Agile
Testing Articles and Tutorials
This is a central repository of links
to the various articles and
tutorials that I posted so far on my Agile
Testing blog, as well as links to some of my talks and
presentations. Enjoy!
Grig Gheorghiu (grig at
gheorghiu dot net)
Talks and presentations
"Practical Applications of (Agile) Web Testing Tools" tutorial at PyCon 2008 (PDF slides)
"Python Testing
Tools" tutorial at PyCon 2007 (PDF slides)
"Agile
Development and Testing in Python" tutorial at PyCon 2006
"Agile
Documentation -- using tests as documentation" talk at PyCon 2006
"Agile Testing
with Python Test Frameworks" talk at PyCon 2005
Python Testing Tools
Python
Testing Tools Taxonomy
Unit testing
Unit testing in Python part 1: unittest
Unit testing in Python part 2: doctest
Unit testing in Python part 3: py.test
Michael Feathers on unit testing rules
Are unit tests free when TDD-ing?
Acceptance testing
PyFIT/FitNesse Tutorial Part 1
PyFIT/FitNesse Tutorial Part 2
PyFIT/FitNesse Tutorial Part 3
Running FitNesse tests from the command line
Should acceptance tests talk to the database?
Should acceptance tests be included in the continuous build process?
On the importance of functional testing
Web application testing
Web app testing with Jython and HttpUnit
Web app testing with Python part 1: MaxQ
Web app testing with Python part 3: twill
In-process Web app testing with twill, wsgi_intercept and doctest
Acceptance tests for Web apps: GUI vs. business
logic
Selenium-specific articles
30-second Selenium installation tutorial
Web application testing with Python part 2:
Selenium and Twisted
Quick update on Selenium in TestRunner mode
Quick update on Selenium in Twisted Server mode
Using Selenium to test a Plone site (part 1)
Using Selenium to test a Plone site (part 2)
New features in Selenium 0.3
Article on Selenium in Oct. 2005 issue of "Better
Software"
Selenium at OpenQA
Running Selenium in Python Driven Mode
Testing 'Commentary' (and thus Ajax) with Selenium
Useful tools for writing Selenium tests
Remote Web app testing with Selenium IDE
Ajax testing with Selenium using waitForCondition
Running the Selenium Twisted server on Linux
30-second Selenium installation tutorial
Selenium test creation and maintenance with make_selenium.py
Performance/load/stress testing
pyUnitPerf Tutorial
HTTP performance testing with httperf, autobench
and openload
Performance vs. load vs. stress testing
More on performance vs. load testing
Continuous integration
Continuous integration with buildbot
Running buildbot on various platforms
Automated test
distribution, execution and reporting
STAF/STAX Tutorial
General testing topics
Beware of timings in your tests
Quick black-box testing example
White-box vs. black-box testing
Agile Documentation
Agile Documentation with doctest and epydoc
Agile documentation in the Django project
The Cheesecake project
Cheesecake: How tasty is your code?
Cheesecake project on SourceForge
A whiff of Cheesecake
More Cheesecake bits
New home for Cheesecake and Sparkplot projects
Cheesecake 0.6 released
The Pybots project
Pybots -- Python Community Buildbots
Setting up Pybots buildslave
Databases
Resetting MySQL account passwords
Installing and using cx_Oracle on Unix
Installing Python 2.4.1 and cx_Oracle on AIX
Installing the Firebird database on a 64-bit RHEL
Linux server
Martin Fowler on in-memory databases and testing
Python on Windows
Handling the 'Path' Windows registry value
correctly
Running a Python script as a Windows service
System Administration and Security
Automating system administration tasks with pexpect
Mounting local file systems using the 'bind' mount type
Telecommuting via ssh tunneling
Managing DNS zone files with dnspython
Configuring OpenLDAP as a replacement for NIS
Chroot-ed FTP with wu-ftpd
System monitoring via SNMP
Compiling and installing a custom Linux kernel
Xen installation and configuration
Apache and Tomcat
Configuring Apache 2 and Tomcat 5.5 with mod_jk
Apache virtual hosting with Tomcat and mod_jk
File sharing with Apache and WebDAV
A couple of Apache performance tips
Compiling mod_python on RHEL 64-bit
Data visualization
sparkplot: creating sparklines with matplotlib
The py library
Keyword-based logging with the py library
py lib gems: greenlets and py.xml
'py library overview' slides
Usability
Jakob Nielsen on Usability Testing
Jakob Nielsen on Blog Usability
Book reviews
Book Review of "The Art of Security Testing" for Dr. Dobb's Journal
Other articles
They still teach Waterfall in schools
Mind mapping
Ambition and the 25% rule
Oblique Strategies and testing
Python as an agile language