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Testing Extjs Application With Selenium : Few Pointers

The biggest hurdle in testing ExtJS with Selenium is that ExtJS doesn’t render standard HTML elements and the Selenium IDE will naively (and rightfully) generate commands targeted at elements that just act as decor — superfluous elements that help ExtJS with the whole desktop-look-and-feel. Here are a few tips and tricks that I’ve gathered while [...]

Growing Focus on Independent Software Testing

Recent IT outages such as the DBS ATM shutdown and United Airlines Web site erroneously selling US$20 tickets are clear evidence of the serious consequences that software failures can bring along, said Ritendra Banerjee, senior vice president of Maveric Systems, a company that performs software testing. In a phone interview with ZDNet Asia, Banerjee explained [...]

Enhance Your Skills as a Software Tester

With the sole objective of enhancing the employability of people who have taken up software testing as a career, a book titled Software Testing Interview Prep by Rajesh Vartak was released by SEED Infotech at their corporate head office in Erandwane recently. The first such book in the ‘Employment Enhancement Series’ (E2 Series) under the [...]

Selenium -Open Source Test Automation: An Overview

Within the software industry, once a product reaches the stable manual testing phase, every organization usually thinks of automated testing to save on the costs involved in manual testing. Since testing cost is an important factor for any project, organizations have started preferring open source test automation tools (which have reached a stage where they [...]

To Selenese or not to Test? That Seems to be the Question

We had a very good turnout for the Automated Browser Testing Poll this week. Before I get into my musings about what happened, here’s a quick summary of the results. With 304 total votes counted: – 58% of respondents are using some variant of Selenium, with Selenium 2/WebDriver garnering the highest percentage of any testing [...]

Bad Practices That Destroy Test Automation Efforts

Think about it: mainstream, commercial test automation tools have been around since the late 1980s. Open source test automation frameworks and tools like FIT, FitNesse, Selenium, White Sahi, and Cucumber are common-place. Every up-and-coming development methodology puts a strong emphasis on testing (i.e., Feature-Driven Development, Test-Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, INSERT YOUR METHODOLOGY HERE-Driven Development, [...]

How test automation with Selenium or Watir can fail

I like automated tests. They’re typically quick to run and assuming they acquire the correct actual and expected result they rarely fail to produce an accurate comparison. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fanatic, but I have seen enough success to know that the right tool, in the right tester’s hand, can be a valuable [...]

Why Automated Testing is Broken

Having been doing automated software testing for almost 10 years now, I am stuck somewhere between intermediate and guru on the subject. As such, I take the liberty to voice what I think based on my experience which has been wide and varied due to my consulting career. There exists a chasm between the sales [...]

Automated Testing: Time well spent

As markets change, companies must react by adapting, and often these changes will be reflected in the demands placed upon the IT function. In an ever-changing marketplace, IT managers often require adjustments and enhancements to be made to technology quickly, and without causing major disruptions to the organisation. The developer’s role in this process is [...]

When Do We Stop a Test?

Several years ago, around the time I started teaching Rapid Software Testing, my co-author James Bach recorded a video to demonstrate rapid stress testing. In this case, the approach involved throwing an overwhelming amount of data at an application’s wizard, essentially getting the application to stress itself out. The video goes on for almost six [...]

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