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What options are available in the career path of a tester?
I am an ISTQB Foundation Certified Tester and am looking at attaining either the Certified Agile Tester (CAT) certification or the ISTQB Intermediate Certificate to add to my skills and experience to ...
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Visual Studio 2010 Performance Testing Javascript not supported
Quite simply the question in the title, when I run test it by default runs it within my visual studio.
This doesn't seem to support JavaScript which makes all my test's invalid. Is there anyway to ...
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Adapting agile testing
I have provided my view points on what is agile testing an what is not agile testing. Would appreciate your views and sharing your agile test adoption experiences
#1. If you follow weekly release ...
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3answers
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How to deal with testers who do more than test
In my firm, we don't have testers, exactly. We have analysts who translate business requirements into specifications. (Think the guy from Office Space, except these guys actually provide some value. ...
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What is best practice for test failures that have a low priority fix?
If I have a test that fails due to a known bug, but that bug is deemed lower priority to fix than other work, what should be done with the test?
I can think of 2 options:
Leave the test in the test ...
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6answers
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What techniques are available to determine which browsers to test?
When websites being deployed to the internet are about to go live, the age old question always comes up. "Which browsers should I test?"
I am not asking that question because it will soon become ...
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5answers
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What Are Some Examples of Why Explicit Sleep Statements Are Bad
I've read various places that explicit sleep statements are a bad practice in automated tests, even if I've used them occasionally. They can be annoying (creating unnecessary waiting in tests) but I ...
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7answers
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Techniques for test selection, give a large suite of test cases
I have a huge collection of test cases (inputs). I'd like to select a small subset that's likely to catch most of the bugs. Are there any standard or known techniques in the testing literature for ...
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7answers
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What is a good KPI for software QA?
How can you measure the efficiency of the QA team? What KPIs would you set up?
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3answers
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Am I tester or just checker?
I've read about difference between testing and checking and I feel I'm only a checker.
I write tests scenarios to know whether the product satisfies requirements. Is this still testing or only ...
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1answer
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Are there some well known nasty pitfalls to try to avoid at all costs when starting with unit testing on a partly legacy (web) application?
I am participating on the development of the web application which has several years of history behind it and there never was enough value and effort put on refactoring, so considerable part of the ...
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2answers
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match image with Selenium2
Not sure if I'm even asking this question correctly, however, here goes.
I'm looking at validating images in an automation suite that I just started. I am currently validating the location via XPath ...
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4answers
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Testing a software with limited resource
I am currently developing a software.The major problem is that I have very limited resource, only a single my PC. So, I can't test my software in different windows, PC with different configuration. ...
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1answer
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Automated Web Testing against Sharepoint solutions in a windows development house
I'm researching which web browser automation tools is most suited to running functional user tests against SharePoint based solutions and potentially MVC based custom web parts at a later date. We are ...
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8answers
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In what phase or stage of the project should QA testing start?
Is it more efficient to start testing during project development or before deployment?
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1answer
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Quicker way to assert that an element does not exist
The goal of my test is to assert that a popup does not appear after certain actions.
Previously to test if the popup exist, i have used exception handling.
try:
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1answer
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How to test an Excel macro that selects, groups, and counts data using SQL query?
This is the first time I encountered such a problem.
There is an Excel table with a macro that selects data from the database using SQL query according to specific criteria. Data is grouped in ...
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2answers
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Looking for a test tool for Flash-based web applications. Any ideas?
I'm looking for a Selenium-like tool to test Flash-based web applications (specifically a guided interview with questions and form fields that the user navigates through to produce a document at the ...
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1answer
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Testing drag-and-drop with Selenium 2 on Telerik controls
I need to automate drag and drop functionality with Telerik controls, I currently use WatiN for my automation (see related quesiton Testing drag-and-drop with Watin on Telerik controls
. I am ...
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2answers
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Should data validation be automated in a rapid development environment
I would like to understand Data Validation for Automation in case of (Weekly/ Frequent Builds)
In case of frequent code changes (Weekly builds) since the code base would change frequently Automation ...
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1answer
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data warehouse testing checklist
what are some best practice approaches such as:
SCD type 1/2/3
nulls
duplicates
missing data
extra data
special characters
FK/PK referential integrity.etc
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4answers
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Accessibility Testing - Should it be considered functional testing or non functional testing?
Well, I am not going to say what falls in functional/non-functional testing as it might vary in your work place. But if you carry out a11y testing then do you have it marked as functional testing or ...
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4answers
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Where to start when testing web pages with large number of options
I have inherited a web application that has no useful requirements/specifications, and no tests. The page that I am currently looking at sets the configuration options for the application and consists ...
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2answers
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Looking for open source testing tool that can be used to test Flash based applications
I am looking for a open source testing tool that can be used to test Flash based applications. I Googled and found "AutoTest Flash" but it seems to be in a dormant state. Has anybody used that tool ...
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What are the best practices for Integration Testing of a middle-ware?
I want to know about the best practices of Integration Testing for a middle-ware product. It includes several backends and also I want to test it over multiple platforms. The features of Clustering is ...
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1answer
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What is the role of the software development manager in a QA/QC process?
I have read about software QA/QC and software-test that in an agile environment the software QA process "directs" the software process, that is to say, that it doesn't ship until it's ready to ship ...
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How can I automate testing of HTTP requests? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a captureNetworkTraffic implementation in Selenium 2 via webdriver?
I'm using Selenium2/C# to run automated tests of a web app. I need to test the HTTP requests ...
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1answer
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Can't open webpage using Firefox WebDriver using Selenium [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I face a problem while opening Firefox with Selenium script
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class ok {
...
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0answers
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Is it possible to configure Android's Monkey test for better web testing ? [closed]
I am using Android's Monkey application to test web browsing (actually testing the underlying layers, not the browser).
Is there a way to configure the behavior of the monkey besides the throttle ...
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Automating Installation of Application in Mac [closed]
I want o automate the process of installation of application which is downlaoded and saved in downloads folder in Mac. I thought of using Applescript for the same, we are using Selenium Testing ...
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2answers
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What is the most appropriate tool to perfrom test automation of Adobe AIR applications?
I need to create test automation of the Adobe AIR application. In application under test there a lot of custom controls, input / output and drag and drop operations.
Now I'm thinking about Flex ...
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4answers
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What are some good test cases in order to do License Key authentication while software is being installed?
I want to learn about:
What could be the test cases to ensure the test coverage while any proprietary software is being installed using a license key. I wish to avoid (a) re-installation (b) multiple ...
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1answer
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moveToElement function not working on IE when browser is minimized or not active using Selenium Webdriver
I'm trying to automate an application using Selenium Webdriver. The moveToElement function fails when the browser is minimized or not active (keep other app active). It works when I keep AUT browser ...
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Open source test management tools [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for test management tool to integrate with JIRA, Hudson, SoapUI, and Selenium
I'm looking for an open source test management tool. Our application is written in ...
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How to write Test Strategy [closed]
How do I write test strategy in simple way by referring Functional requirement document. and Business requirement document. What are the bullet points?
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What is automation testing and why do we need it?
I am new to the field of software testing. I would like to clarify the following basic things:
As there were different types of testing process, we used to do manually enter testcases and write for ...
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Outlook Mail testing
I want to know how to use outlook to test mails (the mail has a link that needs to be clicked to approve or deny the request). How do I write this in Selenium Webdriver in c#. I am quite new to ...
