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One key aspect of unit testing is identifying how many unit tests you should have for your project. Keeping too many tests will lead to an increased maintenance effort. Having too little tests will obviously lead to important bugs being

Regression testing is the key value of unit testing, and the #1 enabler of agile unit testing. A good regression test suite provides you with the confidence that frequent changes did not cause any serious damage to your existing code

With all the advances of AI in recent years, people start to phantasize more and more about automating everything, including processes such as unit testing. In this article, I'll pin down the 2 main arguments why full automation will never

Let’s do Automated Frontend Tests! This sounds quite easy – but usually turns out to be a real pain in the ass of both testers and project managers. Usually, frontend tests provide a nice way to visually present the quality

In this article, I’ll show you how easy it can be to keep your test suite in a manageable size – without having to go through the process of defining regression tests. But why is this relevant for your daily

Agile software development is gaining traction in more and more companies these days. But all coding agility loses its purpose if your software testing practices are not up to speed. The mindshift that still needs to happen here is that

Defining your regression tests can be a tedious, and often also difficult task. Which are the unit tests that might detect future bugs in your system? How can you keep the number of regression tests that you have to continuously

Running a unit test once helps you find bugs in your code without having to run your software. This can be nice – but the actual value of a unit test lies in running it over and over again –

Although unit testing is a valuable activity for every software development project, it’s also a pain in the ass of every developer who has to deal with it. Why? Because defining, writing, and maintaining your tests over time costs a

Why should we write unit tests? I guess most developers have thought about this already at some stage in their career, and Unit testing is is important. But it’s also hard. That’s why in this article, I argue how you