Timeline for What are anti-patterns in test automation?
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 18:50 | comment | added | user246 | You can test in a non-isolated environment, but you have to take that into account when you interpret the test results. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 19:45 | comment | added | Kate Paulk | @dzieciou - nothing so advanced. The Web app "talks" to the mainframe through virtual punch cards in files dropped into designated directories. As far as the web app is concerned, data magically appears in the database and it drops files somewhere which are magically processed. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | dzieciou | @KatePaulk But the wen app talks to the mainframe through Web services, right? Can't you mock those Wev services then? | |
| May 5, 2014 at 11:22 | comment | added | Kate Paulk | Just for extra fun, sometimes it's impossible set up automated tests to run in isolation. This is my situation now: a web application which employs and relies on a number of web services that interface with a mainframe. The mainframe does not distinguish between "test" and "not test", and new (clean) data can only be entered via the mainframe - over which the web team has no control. | |
| May 4, 2014 at 19:19 | history | edited | dzieciou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2014 at 19:15 | comment | added | Niels van Reijmersdal | Not testing in isolation is the anti-pattern and leads to all kind of problems. Often automated tests are not done in isolation because of the extra effort you need to setup a situation to run a test suite on its own. | |
| May 4, 2014 at 19:13 | history | edited | Niels van Reijmersdal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2014 at 19:12 | comment | added | dzieciou | So running a test in isolation is an anti-pattern, or boostrapping environment per each test is an anti-pattern or not running a test in isolation? | |
| May 4, 2014 at 12:48 | history | answered | Niels van Reijmersdal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |