I just listened to a podcast where Ċ½eljko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord about Watir. This is an easy to listen to and informative podcast about Watir. I really admire and appreciate Bret’s openness about Watir as he talks about both the good and the bad. If you have 23 minutes give it a listen.
Pex (from the Microsoft Research Lab) has finally been released the public. Pex 0.5 can be downloaded here.
What is Pex?
“Pex (Program EXploration) is a white-box test generation tool. Given a hand-written parameterized unit test, Pex analyzes the code to determine relevant test inputs fully automatically. The result is a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, Pex suggests to the programmer how to fix bugs.”
I haven’t had a chance to dive in but I’m pretty excited to see how this can speed up production of writing white box tests and/or increase the code coverage on QA’s side.
At the end of the day it’d be nice to see this in the developers’ hands and not mine. Baby steps though…
Read more about Pex here.
Get an ear full of Pex with a great Hanselminutes Podcast entitled “Pex with Jonathan ‘Peli’ de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann“.