Careful with that Test Data…
It doesn’t happen too often but when it does, it’s hilarious: test data escaping the testing environment. I’ve heard of this happening a few times, but here’s the funiest one so far:...
View ArticleFinding the balance between hacky and over-engineered UI test automation...
There are very few real requirements for a UI test automation framework: It should provide accurate test results It should provide accurate test results every time you ask it for results It should make...
View ArticleThe Duct Tape Programmer
If you’re designing, writing or maintaining a UI test automation framework, read this before you start: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html A great quote from the article: A 50%-good...
View ArticleExplaining Watir, Selenium and WebDriver
Something I seem to be explaining to people all the time… the relationships between Watir, Watir “2.0″, Selenium, Selenium “2.0″ and WebDriver. Alister Scott has done an excellent job of explaining the...
View ArticleTesting a website on different versions of IE
So, no matter how much you argue that it’s an ancient, irrelevant browser; there’s no way you can wriggle out of having to test your web app against IE6 on WinXP. But… trying to find a machine with it...
View ArticleCartoon Tester
I just stumbled across the Cartoon Tester site. Take a look! I found “Is that a bug in a software testing site?” particularly pertinent…
View Article(Possibly) The World’s Smallest Ruby Unit Test Tool
Skorks, a great ruby/dev blog, gave the following challenge last year: what is the minimum amount of code needed to make a viable unit testing framework? An interesting question… Well, he chose to...
View ArticleHow to bring a browser to the front (on a mac)
One of the sad realities of browser testing is that for some functions to work the browser just has to be on top. If it’s not on top, tests will fail. There has to be a way to bring browsers … Continue...
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