Sam Woods

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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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Feb 5	reviewed	Reviewed *Typical software & tools short-list for manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment**
Feb 5	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Is there any automation tool for Symfony 2 framework in PHP
Feb 5	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Selenium:With selelenium RC can we scroll the scrollbar up or down of browser.
Feb 5	reviewed	Looks Good *Typical software & tools short-list for manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment**
Jan 31	comment	Is there load/stress testing software that can be used for Ajax calls? As user246 stated, they are just HTTP requests initiated by JavaScript. You can use a tool like fiddler, httpwatch or firebug's network tab to view the requests that get sent and then re-create those requests in jmeter or whatever tool you want to use.
Jan 31	answered	*Typical software & tools short-list for manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment**
Jan 29	comment	What are the options for automated testing of screen reader in Web apps? I recently also found this resource: a11yproject.com
Jan 29	reviewed	No Action Needed Open project vs Project Libre
Jan 29	reviewed	Looks Good Open project vs Project Libre
Jan 29	reviewed	Looks Good Xpath captured using Selenium IDE is not running in Selenium RC for Links designed in XML
Jan 29	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Upgrade testing strategy diagram
Jan 28	answered	What are some small, standalone or web applications for test new QA staff on?
Jan 28	comment	What are some small, standalone or web applications for test new QA staff on? Are you talking about using these in the hiring process before extending an offer?
Jan 28	comment	Does anyone know of an automation tool that will perform actions on sending or receiving of an email? Yep, you should definitely be able to do this under a CI server, you can either use SMTP (may be able to use the one your IT department already uses, if that is what they use) or you can go the route of using a gmail account, instructions in my first comment's link.
Jan 25	comment	Does anyone know of an automation tool that will perform actions on sending or receiving of an email? It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Do the e-mails need to be sent from a certain domain, or could you use a free e-mail such as gmail like in the answer I linked to? Can you give a bit more context about the scenario you want to automate? What is the goal of the automation?
Jan 25	comment	Does anyone know of an automation tool that will perform actions on sending or receiving of an email? Check out this answer: sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/3825/outlook-mail-testing/…
Jan 25	answered	How is QA involved in usability testing?
Jan 25	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on A way to match on text using CSS locators
Jan 25	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on A way to match on text using CSS locators
Jan 25	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on absolute Xpath is not working for Gmail login page