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Yes, we use log monitoring as part of our testing process. Each manual tester is asked to monitor the logs during test (tail -f), to look for hidden errors/exceptions during testing. Also, our UI will pop-up a dialog if a client side exception is thrown. These usually cause automated tests to fail, and starts the investigation. Finally, we have a script ...

This is the kind of scenario where I'd use a mix of automated and manual testing - manual testing using the iPad, because one thing GUI automation always does is simulate the human inputs. I've found that simulation often has crucial differences from actual input. For automation, the crucial question here is where the data sent from the ios app is stored. ...

We rely extensively on log analysis, but not for Web applications but for testing embedded code (from low level drivers to applications). As the presentation says one of the first decisions you'll have to take is online vs. offline , this changes your strategy completely. Our Perl framework has a simplified API for analyzing offline logs, and/or handling of ...

Web applications are a little bit different in that the web server deals with multiple, unrelated clients. If you are looking for a pattern, it is not enough to know that page Y followed page X -- you also need to know whether those events occurred in the same session. Sometimes this information is available in the logs; sometimes, not. Of course in a ...