Programm FrOSCon 2014

Vortrag: Property-based Testing

23. August 2014
Workshop / Javascript (C117)
Language: en
Javascript

Zusammenfassung

In spring 2014, David Heinemeier Hansson sparked an intense debate about our industries' testing culture with a provocative statement: "TDD is dead". Whether you agree with this or not, it might be a good reason to look at alternative approaches to testing.

Beschreibung

This talk discusses property-based testing, a method which promises to greatly reduce the time spent on writing tests by generating the test cases for you. We will discuss the theory, advantages and problems and take a look at how to use it to test JavaScript code. After this session you will have a new tool under your belt which might prevent quite a few bugs in the future.

Currently working on his thesis on "Test-Driven Web Development" at the University of Applied...