testing

Whilst I am aware of, and appreciative of the merits of both Roboguice and Dagger, I felt that they were not suitable for what I had initially intended to be a simple application. That is not to say that they are complex or difficult to use but rather I didn&

I was attempting to test a method which sets a photo inside an ImageView using Picasso when I stumbled upon an error. The error outputted to logcat was "Method call should happen from the main thread". It was thrown by Picasso, and it was causing my test to

Over the past month I have been developing an iOS app for one of the websites that I own and operate. I wanted to share a few considerations that I encountered when investigating testing and iOS. Objective C has been around and developing as a language for an extremely long

I previously wrote about the internals of Mocha. The reason that I was intrigued by the inner workings of Mocha was because I was in the process of building a functional testing tool - Phantom Mochachino. Phantom Mochachino is an extension of Mocha which works with the PhantomJS headless web

In an attempt to extend the functionality of Mocha for a specific use case I was required to look into its source code. I wanted to write the flow down so it was clearer to myself. Maybe someone else will find this useful. Mocha Firstly you have the Mocha '

I utilize PHPUnit for my backend testing and have noticed a number of things whilst using it. I have outlined these below - hopefully they will help someone. DBUnit, composite datasets and foreign keys There is a bug in the PHPUnit source code which means that composite datasets are truncated

Over the past few days i have been investigating Facebook's Jest - a javascript unit testing framework. I have found a number of issues with it for my use case. My main issue is as to what it is actually useful for. The documentation outlines how to test