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The test automation pyramid

In his book Succeeding with Agile, Mike Cohn describes the concept of a test automation pyramid, describing three levels of test automation, their relation and their relative importance. As an advocate of minimizing user interface-based test automation I wholeheartedly support...

Up and running with: Mockito

This is the third article in our series on new, popular or otherwise interesting tools used in test automation. You can read all posts within this series by clicking here. What is Mockito? Mockito is an open source testing framework...

Five considerations before choosing an automated testing solution

Selecting a tool to aid your project or organisation with the implementation of automated software testing can be a daunting task. Many tools are available, each of them with its own benefits and drawbacks. The following considerations will provide you...

Data driven testing using a test data database

In a previous post I explained how to set up a data driven test in Selenium Webdriver using data from an Excel worksheet. However, you might have your potential test data stored in a database rather than in Excel. In...