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How long does it typically take to progress from Test Analyst to Senior TA to Test Lead to Test Manager?
How long does it typically take to progress from Test Analyst to Senior TA to Test Lead to Test Manager?
I've been working as a TA for almost a year and was wondering how long it typically takes to ...
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Can we write wrapper class for TestNG and Junit framework
I am writing a framework to run tests using Selenium webdriver which uses the TestNG framework. My requirement is to write a wrapper class to class TestNG framework, however I don't want to directly ...
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What are some good examples of pure Computer Science and Mathematics applications in software QA?
I am looking for some good examples of pure Computer Science and Mathematics applications in software QA. The objective is to create a course for CS and Applied Math students with applications that ...
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API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
I was hoping you could help me...I am looking for an automated test tool that can:
MUST HAVE:
Ability to connect to a server endpoint that returns JSON or XML based data
Ability to fully parse and ...
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Mocking for MXUnit
I'm fairly new to Coldfusion; at my new position, we're using MXUnit for unit testing our service library, but so far we're not mocking out the database (so we're testing against live data). I want to ...
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Problems with maintenance of Selenium on grid service
We have cluster of 5 nodes with all of them are Firefox nodes only. We have ran into so many issues maintaining the grid up and running.
Selenium nodes goes out of memory (JAVA heap space issues)
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Testing EJB based web service - Java vs .NET vs SoapUI
I am testing a workflow application that takes the user step by step through each task. The inputs in each task are basically just barcodes or some numerical values. Fortunately, each task has an EJB ...
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Test scenarios for an advertising identifier used for an iOS app?
When an advertising identifier is used for an iOS application - other than the Upgrade Scenarios what are the main things that a Tester should focus on to test the iOS Application.
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Does Selenium's LoadableComponent make sense in a SPA (Single Page Application)?
I'm writing a UI testing suite for a single page javascript application using Selenium 2 web driver. I'm still experimenting with how to fit the app inside a page object model. At the moment I am ...
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Handling Alert box on page load
Is there any way to identify the JavaScript alert box (on page load) in selenium IDE?
I used commands like "storAlert", "assertAlert" etc. But selenium not identifying alert box.
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Selenium WebDriver | Unable to switch to apparent pop-up
I am trying to automate Peoplesoft 9 based Web application on Firefox 20.0.1. On clicking a search icon another form opens which I thought to be a pop-up and tried my code -
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Best QA techniques [closed]
Can anyone tell me what are the best techniques to do a full QA on a social networking sites. I have a social networking site which is now growing each day. A whole lot of feature have been developed ...
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Any good test plan/cycles or experiences without using crowdsourcing?
I'm trying to rethink our test cycle that we use at my company and am wondering if anyone could give any leads, examples, experiences, etc. to how you test without the use of crowdsource data. The ...
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How would I unit test these functions?
I have the following functions :
Get(ds,filename) - gets a file from a data source ds.
Put(ds,filename) - puts a file into a data source ds.
List(ds) - lists all files in data source ds.
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Data driven testing on Selenium ide
Kindly let me know is there any option to call data from an Excel on selenium ide?
and how its works.
I have to call data from an excel (where data are stored) .Please let me know solution to this ...
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How to Check my pc is having internet connection using java
I need to find whether my pc is connected to internet using java.From references, I found that using below code just verify whether NIC is up or down.
public static boolean ...
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What are the available multi platform test tools available for native mobile applications?
I'm trying to push my organisation into more modern ways of testing our mobile software, thus I'm trying to build a list of tools that I can use to present to my line manager and his bosses.
By ...
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How to calculate the number of tests in a test set in QC?
I have tests split to few test sets under the same folder. I can use the Live Analysis tab in order to see the number of tests in the folder. I wonder how can I see a number of tests per test set? ...
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What is difference between Geb automation tool and Selenium web driver?
I just want to know why it is I should go for Geb automation.
What are the advantages of using Geb automation over selenium Web driver or Robot framework.
I would like to know regarding following ...
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How to automatically break Unit Tests when their related Requirements change (before any code change)
The shop I work for has recently switched to Agile/Scrum software development. We've started logging User Stories, and defining their scope with Acceptance Criteria. So, we have
Features defined ...
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How to get the Event Object of the Click event on Selenium IDE?
I am a newb at selenium thing.
I have image map area and on click event of this area a function is firing where the click Event Object is being passed to do some calculation.
I have recorded the ...
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how to locate cursors randomly in map
there is a lot of cursors in the map
every time you refresh the map you will get another different cursors with different IDs
so i can't use the IDs :(
i want to click at any cursor, tooltip should ...
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Selenium Webdriver | Unable to locate element error
I am trying to run the below code but getting error. Can you please point out the issue?
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import ...
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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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Looking for growth in automation
Is there something or an automation test tool that is free that I could be using to enhance my skills in automation? My company is not allowing me to grow in my field, and this is not good. They do ...
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Recommendations for code coverage tools?
I have a wishlist for code coverage tools and am wondering if people could recommend some tools that fulfill all or many of my wishes. I am starting my search for tools that work specifically with ...
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Software Quality Assurance Conferences - List and recommendations
I have been looking for some good conferences to attend and recommend to colleagues. Looking up on Google and some sites, I thought it would be a good idea to create a list of SQA conferences, the ...
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What are the different test scenarios to be checked for giving license to a client
i have a web app .License is given to the customer to use it.What could be the possible test scenarios that has to be checked before deploying it.I have found out a few
1)Change the server time zone ...
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Crowdfunded feature request system - would it make users hate me?
There's a free webapp I develop and I use a feature request system where each user gets limited votes and it works great. Since I don't get paid for this though, I was thinking of turning the most ...
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What does a QA Architect do in a team, and what skills are needed for this job?
I saw a job ad for a QA Architect. I realized that I don't know what is the role of QA Architect in a team.
So, what does a QA Architect do in a team and what skill does he need to have both in ...
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Jmeter's threads got stuck and never end
I'm working on some Jmeter scripts, everything seems to work just fine; they got recorded and run properly (for a couple of users anyway).
The problem appears when I run the scripts for more than ...
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Testing for SU Sprints
In an agile environment, for sprints for small updates, what approaches to testing are recommended? Do we just do exploratory testing after the SUT has been built before releasing it or do we do both ...
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How to deserialize and correlate Binary Large Objects in Load Runner 11.5 Web Custom Request?
I'm working on a Silverlight based application. We've recorded the scripts using Load Runner 11.5 and while replaying to find dynamic values for correlation, we found out that the entire data in a ...
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Recommend issue tracker to be used with Basecamp
Background
In my company we started to use Basecamp for managing the project (mainly assigning work to developers). But unfortunately Basecamp on it's own doesn't have sufficient tools to track the ...
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What is so specific about reentrancy? [closed]
Developers and testers are obsessed with ensuring (or avioding) the reentrancy. Organizations always analyze it specially (e.g. this one says: Many functions must complete their execution and return ...
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How to handle dynamically updated params in XPath queries in Selenium?
I am new to Selenium IDE.
In my Web application, while playing back the recorded events, some internal id in XPath expression gets changed dynamically.
E.g.: (//*[@id='edit_1_undefined']) in this ...
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Load testing APIs & web services resource?
I'm looking for a good, in-depth resource for load testing REST APIs and web services that goes well beyond "beginner load testing". I'm wanting a technology-agnostic resource that focuses on the ...
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Best practices for developers to increase testability of web apps for QA?
I'm writing a document for a developer at my company who will be working on a web app. Here's the advice I have for him so far (below). Can any of you think of more that I can add? Not sure which tool ...
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What are the most common mistakes student programmers make? [closed]
After having encountered problems with my college project's deployment I learned that I made a few mistakes and came up with a bad quality software. I thought I did a great job but now I realize that ...
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JMeter Concurrent Users Count Practice
I have a web application which is working in production and there are 2000+ users of my application. Now I have to perform performance testing on the system so is there any idea how many concurrent ...
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What is the most appropriate tool to test web app for beginners? [closed]
I want to start test automation for web app. But i have confusion in selecting the tool. e.g, Whats tool to use and how to use it..... I did not use any tool before, just manually test the web app.
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Is Selenium 2 WebDriver JavaDoc API available offline?
Can I get a offline copy/archive of Selenium Webdriver Javadoc API which is available here so that I can bind the same to my Eclipse IDE for offline use?
A ready-made HTML archive will be ...
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How do I automate “service-level” testing for a GUI app
I have extensive experience automating GUI testing with tools like TestComplete or Microsoft's CodedUI. However, I am trying to get out of the game of testing at the UI layer and instead would like to ...
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Webdriver addon is not starting with Firefox
I have a Selenium test suite configured to run with Django & teamcity but today I have noticed that when running my tests locally, Firefox launches without the Webdriver addon bar across the ...
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Modifying multiple Test Cases status [duplicate]
Sometimes I have a list of test cases in the Test Lab and I want to their Status to be changed. Is there any neat way to do it except of just going and doing that one by one?
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Attaching a defect to a blocked Test Case in QC
In QC there is an option to set a "Blocked" status for a testing scenarios which are unable to be tested due to a blocking defect. I wonder if there is an option to attach the actual blocking defect ...
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Automated Test Management: Running, Saving Results, Querying, etc
The team I am currently working with has a very large application to test (several custom programs, running in a distributed environment), and has built up a very large set of automated test cases for ...
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How do you manage large sets of Acceptance Criteria?
Where I work we've recently made the switch to SCRUM. We've gone through the usual problem involved in such a transition from Waterfall but, overall, we now have a functional Agile/SCRUM approach.
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Why testing, by definition, cannot find deadlocks and stack overflows?
Sean M. Beatty says in "Where testing fails" article that "deadlocks, stack overflows, race conditions and timing problems cannot be detected by testing (whether it is code inspection, whide-box ...
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Fitnesse + WebDriver: any working solution?
Could you please tell me if there were any attempts to integrate Fitnesse and Selenium WebDriver? I'm looking for something like Selenesse (https://github.com/marisaseal/selenesse), but for WebDriver, ...
