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Running Integration Tests in Build Pipelines with a Real Database

Steve Smith 16 Oct 2019 Leave a Comment

Running Integration Tests in Build Pipelines with a Real Database

A pain point for some organizations is figuring out how to run tests that involve databases. These are not unit tests, by most folks’ definition (including my own: unit test or integration test and why you should care). Nonetheless, they’re important and ideally they should run as part of your build pipeline. Recently I’ve come […]

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: Azure DevOps, continuous integration, docker, ef core, entity framework, integration tests, sql server, testing

Generate Code Coverage Reports with ReportGenerator in Azure DevOps

Steve Smith 17 Jul 2019 Leave a Comment

Generate Code Coverage Reports with ReportGenerator in Azure DevOps

Recently I’ve been looking at different ways to generate code coverage reports during automated builds. I’m mostly working with Azure DevOps for builds these days, as they’ve come a long way since the early TFS days and the hosted version is now free for open source projects. This is really nice because I have a […]

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: Azure DevOps, builds, ci, devops, quality, software quality, tdd, testing

Load Testing and the Requests per Second Curve

Steve Smith 8 Jan 2019 Leave a Comment

Load Testing and the Requests per Second Curve

There are a few basic curves you look for when load testing. They’re pretty much standard, but there’s not a lot of information out there about them, specifically. In this post I’m going to just describe one such curve, and what it tells you. It’s the Requests per Second (or RPS or R/S) curve. Some […]

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: Azure DevOps, load testing, performance, visual studio, VSTS

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