Tuesday 8th September 2009

• Meeting at 19:30 - location: zeix
• Drinks: zeix
• Organiser: Hannes Gassert

by Markus Gaelli

There are three main types of automated testing:

• Unit tests focus on technical details and are usually defined by developers.
• Functional tests (also known as acceptance tests) focus on business value and are defined by the customer.
• GUI tests focus both on user interface and business value but usually need a GUI on which capture/replay tools can be executed on. Thus they come late in the game and are usually quite brittle.

Customers in agile projects need to define when they consider a user story to be done. Developers need to know at the beginning of an iteration under when they can ship the story as done. As a consequence customers need to define the test criteria for the automatic tests of a story before there is a GUI on which to capture automatic GUI tests.

Only functional testing can help here, as unit tests are too technical and GUI tests are too late and also too brittle. Based on his industrial experience, our member Markus Gaelli will introduce and compare three prominent open source functional testing frameworks Fit/FitNesse, Concordion and Cucumber.

• Harry Fuecks
• Christian Stocker
• Maarten Manders
• Olivia Menzi
• Hannes Gassert
• Patrice Neff
• Esther Brunner
• Roman Fischer
• Michael Pellaton
• Kai
• Andreas Baumgart (maybe)
• Jiayong Ou
• Philippe Gerber
• samuel
• Fabienne Steiner
• lejoe
• memibeltrame

* Hugo Schotman (Likely)

• alessandro rimoldi
• Tonio Zemp
• Norbert Bollow
• Silvan Mühlemann
• Thomas Gemperle
• brunom (likely)
• Urban Etter
• Philippe Marschall (likely)
• Tim Church
• Yves Serrano
• Valentin Binnendijk
• Urs Honegger
• Dominique <jeko> Sandoz

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