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Category Archives: General Testing Stuff
Testing 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 lying … Continue reading
Explaining 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 impact of WebDriver on Selenium and Watir and … Continue reading
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The 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 solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution … Continue reading
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Finding the balance between hacky and over-engineered UI test automation frameworks
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 it easy to write tests It … Continue reading
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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: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/14.89.html#subj3 Bookmark to: