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Execute Selenium tests as unit test in Eclipse IDE

One more time I’m here talking about Selenium and tests. As I talked in the last post Functional Tests with Selenium 2.0 and cargo-maven-plugin, there was a problem if you want implement a new Selenium Test and execute it, you must to execute all Selenium tests, but it’s not efficient. So, to resolve this problem [...]

Code coverage metrics and Functional Test Coverage

Code coverage can be a very useful metric. However you need to know how, and when, to use it. The link between code coverage and test quality is tenuous at best – in short, high code coverage is, in itself, no guarantee of well tested code. And increasing code coverage for the sake of code [...]

Continuous Delivery (Free Chapter): Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline

Continuous integration is an enormous step forward in productivity and quality for most projects that adopt it. It ensures that teams working together to create large and complex systems can do so with a higher level of confidence and control than is achievable without it. CI ensures that the code that we create, as a [...]

Test Faster and More Efficiently, is it Doable?

Software validation for ongoing or corrective maintenance is always risky because of regressions that have immediate impacts. As the software is already running and used by employees for intern processes, any dysfunction introduced by a new version could quickly become a major issue. Software regression testing is aiming to avoid these risks and ensure a [...]

Tips on Creating Stable Functional Web Tests to Compare Across Test Runs and Browsers

Writing stable functional tests that run on multiple browsers is not as easy as I thought it to be. In this blog I discuss several workarounds I had to implement in order to get my Selenium WebDriver scripts running on multiple browsers and stable enough to not only verify functionality but also analyze performance characteristics [...]

Sample ISTQB Exam Questions

You can now take a ISTQB Software Testing Sample Exam at TestingExcellence.com The sample exams are designed to test specific areas of the Software Testing field, such as fundamentals of Software Testing, White Box Testing, Test Management, etc. More practice exams will be added soon. You can subscribe to our feeds to recieve updates about [...]

PushToTest TestMaker 6 Ships

PushToTest™, the 10-year-old Open Source Test (OST) company, announced the immediate availability of TestMaker™ 6, the latest version of its next generation Ajax and Flex Web application testing platform. TestMaker 6 features the new TestMaker Object Designer for record/playback of Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, Flash,) an advanced Test Runtime Kernel for fast [...]

Choosing a Test Automation Framework

Basing an automated testing effort on using only a capture tool such as IBM Rational® Robot to record and play back test cases has its drawbacks. Running complex and powerful tests is time consuming and expensive when using only a capture tool. Because these tests are created ad hoc, their functionality can be difficult to [...]

Parameterized jUnit Test

When you are writing unit tests, you want to test all the border cases. You can create a method for every border case, but sometimes this is a very repetitive job. JUnit has a more pragmatic approach for these sorts of tests, called Parameterized tests. The idea is simple. You create your testcase with your [...]

Improve Browser Performance With the CSS Stress Test Tool

CSS3 backgrounds, rounded corners, box shadows, text shadows, opacity and transformations save web developers hours of time. Basic effects can be achieved without resorting to image slicing, additional elements or scripting. Despite this, not all is rosy in the CSS3 world. When I first dabbled with the techniques a couple of years ago, I was [...]

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