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manual tester wanting to get into automation
So its been a year since I have been studying python, and just recently I started picking up webdriver. It was a long journey, and I am still pretty noob, but I finally understand how to use it lol. I ...
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Unskipping skipped tests once bugs are fixed?
I'm wondering how others in the industry deal with this. Right now I do this in my tests that have known bugs and aren't worth taking the time to run:
from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
def ...
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How can I convince Squish to recognise the menu bar on Mac OS X?
I'm currently recording some python test scripts for a Mac OS X application using Squish for Qt, version 4.0.2.
The menu bar of the AUT works fine if interacted with manually, but for some reason ...
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How to 'Mock' SVN
I am testing an app that does some subversion interactions, such as comitting, adding, stat, etc.
What's a good way to get me started in terms of mocking the subversion client and working directory ...
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What are some tools for fuzz testing?
Fuzz Testing as defined by Wikipedia is:
a software testing technique, often automated or semi-automated, that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data to the inputs of a computer ...
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How do I write a script to be executed by Hudson to automatically restart test environment machines?
I am working in a test environment where we need more than 10 machines, including VMs. The AUT is a Distributed Network type and uses Cassandra nosql DB. We are required to restart each of the ...
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Approaches to Testing a Scientific Library
I'm quite interested in the Scipy/Numpy project which is basically a Python scientific computation/numerical methods library. I'm also interested in testing. What are some good approaches for testing ...
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What would be a good test Orchestration tool for Python unit tests
what comes to mind is Make, or build.xml, but have not found a comprehensive Orchestration tool for python testing
