Back towards the end of April, a test manager at one of my clients listened to me talk about the test framework I had built over the last couple of years. He was supportive and eager to run tests. He also very casually asked me why I hadn't considered "Behaviour-driven development", BDD, instead of TDD. …
Tag: tdd
Testing with ChromeDriver
Good news, I have changed my testing framework to use ChromeDriver rather than HTMLUnit. HTMLUnit didn't cut it, and rather than going back to phantomJS — which hasn't been updated in quite a while — I decided to do the right thing ™. The only downside: there is currently no way to filter. I know …
Data Quality & Testing – Some Thoughts from Others
I want to share two articles with you that I felt nicely threw spotlights on testing. The first one, called TDD & "Professionalism" (I love that title!) by Jason Gorman, builds a Venn diagram based on 4 values, or 4 corner stones of what the author calls "professional". A "professional" "doesn't ship untested code", "doesn't …
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Maintenance
The cool thing about Analytics, from the point of view of a developer: once you have set it up, it is completely maintenance-free! Fire and forget! Or is it? The truth is that a) "once you have set it up" is not the way I would describe Analytics (or other things like targeting, personalisation, testing, …
Automated Testing – Blocking Tracking
One more on automated testing, if you allow me. Yesterday evening (i.e. on July 17th, as this post is scheduled to go live on the 18th), I will hopefully have updated the test framework on github. There are two big changes in this new version, and those to have to be explained. I swapped out …
More tests, more fun
Since the Summits, there has been some interest in the test framework I keep flogging on this blog, and rightfully so, imnsho! They say that no plan survives first contact with reality, and the same is true for those who have started to use the framework. It is amazing how much abstraction goes on in …
Automating Tests
[180418 - updated to reflect move to ChromeDriver] I feel like a fraud! For months — no! Years! — I have been writing about testing, more specifically automated testing. I have shared my Site Infrastructure Tests github, I have spoken about it at the Adobe Summit in London, and I have mentioned multiple times that …
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Wanna test? Mac Edition
[2018-04-13 - update - this article has been updated to use ChromeDriver] Yay! Testing! My beloved pet peeve! When I wrote the step by step article on how to set up for testing on Windows, I optimistically and somewhat dismissively wrote I am 100% sure you can easily show your friendly marketer how to do …
Testing is like an Onion
I have tried to justify my approach to testing for digital marketing a couple of times. Given that tools like ObservePoint or HubScan are available, the fundamental question is: do you need my approach at all? My personal answer to that, obviously, is yes, you do! If I have formerly convinced you, feel free to …
Test-driven & agile Analytics revisited
In 2014, I went to Berlin to attend "Digital Analytics Hub", probably the best "conference" in our business. DA Hub evolved out of Gary Angel's Xchange. You sit in small groups of people with one discussion leader, and you speak about interesting subjects. Those "discussions" can be anything between good and outstanding, depending on the …
