The Software Tester’s Dictionary
in Everything, Software Testing
as AST Dictionary, Software Testing
For those of you who weren’t at CAST2010 and maybe aren’t so acquainted with some of the things the Association for Software Testers is up to, you might be interested to learn that Cem Kaner is heading up a special interest group to create a dictionary of terms relevant to software testing. For those people [...]
Life is too short to do a job you loathe
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as life, sanity, Software Testing
I’ve been busy lately. In a good way, at long last. I recently started at a new company and have been flat out getting acquainted with how the new place is put together. I have to say – I am loving the new role. I know when I turn up that before the day is [...]
Borrowing Japanese as a teaching aid
Adam Goucher’s post on New things to steal from the Japanese is the impetus for this one. At CAST I gave a lightning talk on borrowing Japanese language as a teaching aid. Using foreign loanwords is probably harmless enough if you’re using them to jazz up a story, but if you’re going to use them [...]
What I learned from my puzzle exercise
in Software Testing
as cryptography, puzzle, Software Testing, Testing
I’d like to say thank you to everyone who participated in this little puzzle exercise and most especially to everyone who provided feedback. I hope you had fun with it. Well done again to Rushmila Islam who was the first to work out the puzzle. I have posted .the solution at the bottom of this [...]
Data driven Selenium in JUnit via @Parameters
in Software Testing
as automated testing, junit, selenium, Software Testing, test automation
I played around a bit with iteration using JUnit today. I have some generic tests that behave differently depending on the values fed to them. I don’t want to have iteration code living alongside each test (maintenance nightmare), so I wanted to use JUnit’s @Parameters tag to pull in my test data via a Preferences [...]
My Selenium setup so far
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as automated testing, automation framework, java, junit, Software Testing, test automation, Testing
I’m having a lot of fun with this Selenium gig (shh, don’t tell anyone). There have been a few yaks shaved and I’ve seen the inside of some rabbit holes, but there seems to be a lot of good material online to guide you. At this point, I’m running my tests directly from eclipse, though [...]
One for the puzzle nerds
In the spirit of recent puzzles/challenges, I thought I might throw in one of my own. In high school, my class was given an exercise to come up with a coded message that the rest of the class would have to work out the cipher to. I didn’t take it that seriously at the time [...]
Adventures in GUI Automation – Verification Layer
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as automated testing, automation framework, gui, gui automation, gui testing, logical functional model, QTP
One of the things I really like about the Logical Functional Model is the concept of removing verification code from the execution code. Another is updating verification data on the fly to reduce the likelihood of false positives. These concepts are especially appealing since QTP’s in-built verification method is not worth using. Verification points are [...]
Adventures in GUI Automation – getting my bearings
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as automated testing, gui automation, gui testing, QTP, Software Testing, test automation, Testing
So I mentioned some of the inherent issues that I dislike about QTP 10. One of those appears to be that reusable actions intermittently fail. An action in QTP is a tool-defined item that collects a number of GUI manipulations (or function calls) into a named action. It sounds handy. It probably would be if [...]
How not to start a discussion
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as exploratory testing, misconceptions about testing, poor software testing, Software Testing
I gues I must be feeling punchy lately. No new content here for a little while, but I felt the need to respond to someone who linked to one of my posts. What I probably should have done was commented here and sent a pingback, but does anyone click on those anymore? I digress. Marcin [...]