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I have been at Webtrends for over a year where I am overseeing the automation efforts. Prior to Webtrends I was at Microsoft for 13 years. Early challenges have included updating a full-featured, yet complex and poorly maintained in-house automation framework, building a common automation logging and reporting platform, creating a tool for simple Deployment Validations, creating automated Performance tests for multiple products, building an object oriented wrapper/abstraction layer for web UI automation on top of selenium and a couple of minor quick-fix tools to increase the speed of manual testing. I have also been involved in a hiring effort to bring our team of one (me) up to a team of 5.

During my time at Microsoft my responsibilities evolved from test planning and manual testing on various projects to --> writing automation and overseeing manual testing efforts from vendors to --> Developing automation tools and processes for the Windows Live organization including a web UI automation framework and a test result reporting platform as well as other smaller tools.


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comment Difference between requirement, use case, and scenario?
Yep, and it may be useful to come up with a common, agreed upon, published definition somewhere so that when you're talking amongst teammates you know that you're all on the same page.
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comment Has anyone used Parasoft's SOATest Tool?
Hi user5287. Can you expand this question? Do you really just want to know if anyone has used it, or are you looking for a tool that fulfills certain requirements and want to know if this fits the bill? Or are you interested in comparisons between this tool and other similar tools?
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reviewed Reviewed Error upon starting Select server “Could not find agent library JVMHOOK”
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Handling Alert box on page load
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on How to Check my pc is having internet connection using java
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reviewed No Action Needed Test scenarios for an advertising identifier used for an iOS app?
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reviewed No Action Needed What are some good examples of pure Computer Science and Mathematics applications in software QA?
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comment Can we write wrapper class for TestNG and Junit framework
What is the goal of this wrapper? What sort of scenario are you trying to enable with it vs directly calling TestNG? Worst case you could spawn a process to execute TestNG from command line.
May
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comment API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
It looks like for java this json schema validator tool github.com/fge/json-schema-validator uses the same schema defined at json-schema.org
May
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comment API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
Yes, json.net for example uses the json schema defined at json-schema.org. You can create json schema files and use the JsonValidatingDeserializer for all of the responses. Examples here: james.newtonking.com/archive/2009/01/04/…
May
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answered API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
May
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revised API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
Improved formatting of numbered list
May
13
comment Problems with maintenance of Selenium on grid service
Not really an answer to your question, but I've seen a lot of people having success with saucelabs.com rather than maintaining their own grid and the fees seem reasonable especially considering you now don't need to worry about hardware or maintenance for the grid.
May
10
answered Does Selenium's LoadableComponent make sense in a SPA (Single Page Application)?
May
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answered How would I unit test these functions?
May
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on webdriver tag wiki excerpt
May
6
comment Recommendations for code coverage tools?
Awesome, I'll definitely check this out when I get to the Java side!
May
3
comment How to get the Event Object of the Click event on Selenium IDE?
Is this the only area on the page, or are there multiple? Could it be finding the incorrect element? Also, does the click fail, or does it complete and appear to succeed from Selenium's point of view but doesn't do anything in your app?
May
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answered Selenium Webdriver | Unable to locate element error
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comment Selenium Webdriver | Unable to locate element error
Further up the tree, is that td inside of an iframe?