John Ferguson Smart is an advocate of open source tools that support and automate the software development lifecycle, especially in Agile environments. Now he presents Thucydides, his own testing ...

The development of embedded software is becoming increasingly complex. Thanks to more powerful microcontrollers, networking and higher demands on security and reliability, firmware projects often ...

Test automation is the practice of automating test execution using frameworks and tools to carry out tests more quickly and reduce the need for human testers. In this method of software testing, ...

One of the major reasons that developers don't like TDD is because, inevitably, it leads to mocking—which can be time consuming. Microsoft has created the Fakes Framework just to simplify the whole ...