After years of nearly every tradeshow, magazine, and technologist saying how wonderful unit tests are, developers know that they're supposed to write unit tests. But it's not always that easy. For example, while most developers can write tests for a trivial class library, it's much har...

Some things change how you fundamentally program. Automation is one of those things. It is what will save you from wasting your weekend stepping through tedious and error-prone processes like regression testing (unit, integration, performance, functional, etc.), builds, deployment, or ...

Web sites are based on a client-server model. While the client (usually a browser) can use client-side script such as JavaScript to do simple tweaking of existing data, getting new data requires a request to the server. The server does the heavy processing and makes a response back, wh...

Automating processes is critical to the success of any software project. Because computers can perform redundant tasks faster and more reliably than people, automation becomes more necessary as the processes become larger and more complicated. This is one of the main drivers behind Tes...

Most developers just focus on getting the initial code done, ignoring the important questions that ultimately affect the total cost of development such as: how do I test, how do I document in case I become unavailable, and how do I write flexible code?