Testing Excellence

Starting Test Automation for a Legacy Project

It is always a herculean task to write automated regression tests for a legacy application. The questions vary from where to start, how much to automate and deciding on the best strategy for automation. Responding to a thread started by Mark Levison on the Agile software testing group, Hubert Matthews suggested that the approach that [...]

Continuous Testing Tools (not only) for Java – Infinitest vs JUnit Max

Tools like Infinitest and JUnit Max run Java unit tests as early as possible, immediately after a relevant code change has taken place. This way you get an immediate feedback and errors and their causes can be identified immediately. Especially when doing test driven development (TDD), this saves you a lot of keystrokes, because you [...]

CruiseControl.Net driving Selenium Tests

This is how you can quickly get CruiseControl.Net running and driving your selenium test – in 6 steps: Download & Install CruiseControl.Net Start “CruiseControl.NET Server“ Windows Service Download SeleniumTest sample project and extract it on a folder C:\Projects\. Edit CruiseControl.NET configuration file (C:\Program Files (x86)\CruiseControl.NET\server\ccnet.config) and replace it with the information in C:\Projects\SeleniumTest\CruiseControl.Net\ccnet.config. Modify it [...]

Software Testers Unhappy With Unrealistic Deadlines

Pressure to meet deadlines, incomplete testing requirements and budgets are the top sources of stress for application testing organisations, as they move towards cloud-based testing. A survey of 102 testers and quality assurance professionals conducted at the TestExpo Winter 2010 event in London found that 73 percent cited the pressure to meet deadlines was the [...]

Evolution of Automated Testing

In the Agile world, and increasingly, in software development in general, automated testing is a key ingredient in delivering quality software. It’s one of the many reasons why Agile has become so successful and is a component to any long-term, sustainable effort. Automated testing blurs the lines between the QA and the Dev. Both parties [...]

Automated Javascript Unit Testing With JsTestDriver

In a previous post about unit testing your Javascript, I explained how you can unit test your own Javascript library code with the QUnit test suite. Now that we can unit test our Javascript, it would be cool to automate the process. We’ll accomplish that by using JsTestDriver, a Javascript test runner, built in Java. [...]

Why Not Run All Your Tests All The Time? A Study of Continuous Integration Systems

There are an increasing number of continuous integration (CI) systems available for use by Pythonistas, but no clear guide to how to choose a CI system for your project. I will examine the architecture choices made by buildbot, bitten, Hudson, continuum, CruiseControl, DART, and pony-build, and discuss the configuration and customization of several of these [...]

Software Test Industry First: TestPlant Granted US Patent for eggPlant

24 January, 2011 – London, UK and Boulder, CO, USA – TestPlant, an international software company with operations in the USA and the UK, today announced that its robotic test tool product, eggPlant, has been recognized by the US Patent and Trademark Office and secured a US patent. The patent, number 7,870,504, has been granted [...]

15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid

After all, it’s only 15 questions…

Selenium Conference – The Future of Testing – April 4-6

The Selenium Conference Is Happening And we want you to be part of it. Join members of the growing Selenium community for 3 jam-packed days of talks, workshops, lightning talks, and hack sessions. Hear speakers from around the world talk about the present and future of automated testing, share ideas with fellow Selenium developers, including [...]

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