Deep Oracles: Multiplying the Value of Automated Tests
(This blog post is expanding on a presentation I gave recenntly. Slides are here) Modern software is a complex beast. We need to be sure that »
Running Test In Parallel - Optimal Number Of Threads
June this year I presented at expo:QA conference. It was a case study on how we increased the execution time of high level automation tests »
Eliminating a Class of Defects
Imagine the following line of PHP code: $db->GetRow("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = $user_id"); This line is vulnerable to SQL injection, »
Fix Your Unstable Automated UI Tests
Unstable automated tests are bad. You cannot rely on the results. It takes too much time to investigate if a failure is really a bug or »
Static Code Analysis for PHP
Static Code Analysis (SCA) is the first of the three pillars of automated testing. This is the practice of running tools that compile (depending on the »