Agile Testing Articles and Tutorials
This is a central repository of links to the various articles and tutorials that I posted so far on my
Agile Testing blog, as well as links to some of my talks and presentations. Enjoy!
Grig Gheorghiu (grig at gheorghiu dot net)
Talks and presentations
"How to get to DONE: Agile and Automated Testing Techniques and Tools" talk at Agile/XP SoCal meeting May 2009 (PDF slides)
"Practical Applications of (Agile) Web Testing Tools" tutorial at PyCon 2008 (PDF slides)
"Python Testing Tools" tutorial at PyCon 2007 (PDF slides)
"Agile Development and Testing in Python" tutorial at PyCon 2006
"Agile Documentation -- using tests as documentation" talk at PyCon 2006
"Agile Testing with Python Test Frameworks" talk at PyCon 2005
Cloud Computing (Amazon EC2 and S3)
Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2
Dark launching and other lessons from Facebook on massive deployments
You're not a cloud provider if you don't provide an API
Resource monitoring and graphing with Cacti in EC
HAProxy and Apache performance tuning tips
HAProxy, X-Forwarded-For, GeoIP, KeepAlive
Load balancing in Amazon EC2 with HAProxy
Working with Amazon EC2 regions
Deploying EC2 instances from the command line
Update on EC2 and EBS
Experiences with Amazon EC2 and EBS
Some issues when restoring files using duplicity
Incremental backups to Amazon S3 with duplicity
Back up your Windows desktop to S3 with SecoBackup
System Administration and Security
The sad state of open source monitoring tools
Automating system administration tasks with pexpect
Mounting local file systems using the 'bind' mount type
Telecommuting via ssh tunneling
Managing DNS zone files with dnspython
Configuring OpenLDAP as a replacement for NIS
Chroot-ed FTP with wu-ftpd
System monitoring via SNMP
Compiling and installing a custom Linux kernel
Xen installation and configuration
Apache and Tomcat
Watch that Apache KeepAlive setting!
A couple of Apache performance tips
Migrating SSL certs from IIS to Apache
Configuring Apache 2 and Tomcat 5.5 with mod_jk
Apache virtual hosting with Tomcat and mod_jk
File sharing with Apache and WebDAV
Compiling mod_python on RHEL 64-bit
Databases
MySQL fault-tolerance and disaster recovery techniques
MySQL load balancing and read-write splitting with MySQL Proxy
Resetting MySQL account passwords
Installing and using cx_Oracle on Unix
Installing Python 2.4.1 and cx_Oracle on AIX
Installing the Firebird database on a 64-bit RHEL Linux server
Martin Fowler on in-memory databases and testing
Data visualization
sparkplot: creating sparklines with matplotlib
Python Testing Tools Taxonomy
Python Testing Tools Taxonomy
Unit testing
Unit testing in Python part 1: unittest
Unit testing in Python part 2: doctest
Unit testing in Python part 3: py.test
Michael Feathers on unit testing rules
Are unit tests free when TDD-ing?