Intermediate automated front end testing for developers

How it currently works, think of this as common deployment releases on a calendar basis.

See Freelance design / development cycle in slideshow on her website

Types of Tests

Testing Players

• QA
• Dev
• Product Owners

Black Box Testing?

• Hide the Code and Refresh

White Box Testing

• Transparent you know how it works (reading code and understanding of it)

Unit Testing

• Breaking code into small chunks for testing
• Software that tests Software

Integration Testing

• Does everything work together as a group of functions, plugins, dependencies etc.

Functional Testing

• Testing for specific functions, etc. automated process such as a wizard to do tasks.

Systems Testing

End to End Testing

• Similar to System but between various elements like databases communication or geographical locations

Sanity Testing

• Does it work at least a little bit?

Regression Testing

• Does it still work as expected after another modification (aka functions edit or plugin added)

Acceptance Testing for End of Project and Delivery

• Does it meet client/user needs,
• does the client think it works as expected
• This is important to close the project
• Once closed they should pay for further updates
• Most important for paycheck and delivery of project

Stress Testing

• Can more than a few people use it at the same time?

Usability Testing

• Testing to see if it is user friendly before and after a project begins (physical mockups before development and testing afterwards)

Automation

• Methods to reduce manual tests and data entry
• “Write Code to Test Code”
• example: PHPUnit

Testing

• Selenium IDE - Firefox Plugin

example: A client wants to change all instances of a word to another word or phrase (company name change)

• create a filter to change items you wouldn’t always catch with your eyeballs

Tool

Jenkins is a award-winning app that uses a cron job to automate and monitor executions

Tabby Chapman
@tabbymarie
www.tabbychapman.com