Category Archives: Testing Theory

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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Book Excerpt on Acceptance Test Driven Development

Download the PDF from here: http://www.manning-source.com/books/koskela/Chapter9Sample.pdf I haven’t read the book, but the above excerpt is really quite good. Bookmark to:

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Test Case Interdependency

One of the most common ways of structuring a series of test cases is to make one test case dependent on the outcome of another. For example, Test Case ‘A’ verifies the functionality surrounding the ability to create an account. … Continue reading

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Link to ISEB Testing study documents

I did the ISEB exam a while ago. I didn’t revise for the exam, I just turned up and did it. It took a few minutes and I was done. I don’t have a high opinion of the exam – … Continue reading

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Data Conversion Testing

(NB: I’m writing this about half a day after having *5* wisdom teeth out – bear with me…) Most projects involve some kind of data conversion from a legacy system. Testing data conversion it is boring as hell and very … Continue reading

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