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	<title>Nat On Testing &#187; Making Life Easier</title>
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	<description>nathaniel ritmeyer&#039;s thoughts on automated software testing</description>
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		<title>Command Line Spotlight</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2012/01/18/command-line-spotlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlight is probably my favourite thing about Mac OS X. I recently found out that it&#8217;s possible to use spotlight on the command line using the mdfind command. But, the arguments I have to pass to it to get what I &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2012/01/18/command-line-spotlight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tag based logic in Cucumber</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/12/12/tag-based-logic-in-cucumber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes cucumber&#8217;s Before hook just doesn&#8217;t cut it. Here&#8217;s a nice hack that allows you to perform some logic during execution of cucumber scenarios when a tag is first come across: It&#8217;s a cucumber formatter that detects when a tag &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2011/12/12/tag-based-logic-in-cucumber/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Precision Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/10/31/precision-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automated Testing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When tests fail it&#8217;s nice to know why. The more precise a failure message is and the less time required to investigate why the test failed, the better. When trying to find out what broke the test, this&#8230; Failure/Error: search_field.should_not &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2011/10/31/precision-failure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silencing Log4Net in White Automation</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/02/14/silencing-log4net-in-white-automation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/02/14/silencing-log4net-in-white-automation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC Journalism WPF app is currently tested by a suite of bewildr tests. Sadly we also have a bunch of legacy tests written using White which we have to monitor. As anyone who uses it knows, White has a &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2011/02/14/silencing-log4net-in-white-automation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>RSpec and ci_reporter</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/01/12/rspec-and-ci_reporter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.natontesting.com/2011/01/12/rspec-and-ci_reporter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to use rspec within hudson, you need to use the ci_reporter gem. The gem extends rspec&#8217;s behaviour to include the junit-style output required by hudson. Annoyingly, the documentation for creating a rspec rake task that uses ci_reporter is &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2011/01/12/rspec-and-ci_reporter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tagging with Git</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/11/tagging-with-git/</link>
		<comments>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/11/tagging-with-git/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My brain just doesn&#8217;t seem to be able to store the git commands for tagging commits and then pushing the tags. So, primarily for my benefit, here&#8217;s how to tag a commit and then push the tags: git tag -a &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/11/tagging-with-git/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing &#8216;responsalizr&#8217; &#8211; test HTTP Response Codes in Ruby</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/06/announcing-responsalizr-test-http-response-codes-in-ruby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/06/announcing-responsalizr-test-http-response-codes-in-ruby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Get it here: gem install responsalizr Responsalizr is a very small and very simple gem I&#8217;ve written that extends the standard ruby Net::HTTPResponse class with a few methods to allow for idiomatic testing of HTTP response codes. The methods added &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2010/09/06/announcing-responsalizr-test-http-response-codes-in-ruby/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Counting strings in a file: Ruby vs Windows Command shell</title>
		<link>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/08/20/counting-strings-in-a-file-ruby-vs-windows-command-shell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.natontesting.com/2010/08/20/counting-strings-in-a-file-ruby-vs-windows-command-shell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.natontesting.com/?p=1045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not the usual material that I put up, but I&#8217;d like to immortalize an event that demonstrated yet again the beauty of Ruby for basic file manipulation, especially in contrast to doing the same in a Windows command &#8230; <a href="http://www.natontesting.com/2010/08/20/counting-strings-in-a-file-ruby-vs-windows-command-shell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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