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Quality engineering for a shared codebase
Abigael Ombaso
Senior Tester, BBC Design + Engineering
Some of the approaches required in building a shared codebase for BBC Online.
10x your collaboration on writing tests
Qambar Raza and Sheila Bhati
iPlayer and Sounds engineering and test teams
Qambar Raza and Sheila Bhati explain how certain collaborative practices can help improve software testing.
10 guidelines on readability and consistency when writing integration tests
Qambar Raza
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Some guidelines on integration testing.
Maintaining Mobile: Update on Mobile Compatibility Programme
Steven Cross
Senior Test Engineer
The Mobile Compatibility Programme (MCP) has been running for the past couple of years and was originally formed to serve as an early warning system for software development teams to give them a heads up when a particular issue affecting one of our native mobile applications had been identified.
Testing the Symfony2 app with MinkBundle, PhantomJS and PHPUnit
Shashikant Jagtap
Senior Developer
Symfony2 has solid documentation around testing tools and it covers both unit and functional testing aspects. However, Symfony2 documentation explains WebTestCase library for functional testing which uses BrowserKit under the hood.
Improving test automation with PUMA
Aimee Rivers
Test manager
We recognise that there is value in testing with the help of automation, but that it can be taken to unhelpful extremes.
Test automation with PhantomJS, Grunt and Friends
Shashikant Jagtap
Senior Developer
We have extensively used PhantomJS for for almost all sort of automated testing including web acceptance testing, performance and accessibility testing.
Testing BBC iPlayer: Krispy Gherkin feature file aggregator
Miguel Gonzalez
Senior Web Developer
One of the problems we have been facing at BBC iPlayer for a long time is the way we approach documenting the features included in the project and our test strategy. There is no silver bullet here, as it's hard to find a solution that is fast, accurate, stable, and that works for developers, dev...
Automating BBC iPlayer mobile testing part three: legacy vs new features
Jitesh Gosai
Senior Developer inTest
UI automation tests only tell you that a specific thing is still working e.g. you can still add an item to your download queue. However, it will not tell you that the item added is incorrect (perhaps the episode of Eastenders you selected and added is actually Top Gear when you play it back).
Behaviour Driven Development: Tips for writing better feature files
Shashikant Jagtap
Senior Developer
Feature files help non-technical stakeholders engage and understand testing, resulting in collaboration and bridging the communication gap. For this reason, well-written feature files can be a valuable tool in ensuring teams uses the BDD process effectively.
