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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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Mar 21 |
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Automate functional testing for WCF services I haven't used the form based input from SoapUI pro (I have only used the free version) but it seems like for manual testing purposes you can use tools such as Fiddler, or browser plug-ins such as Postman. |
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Mar 7 |
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Load Testing Ajax application That's true, especially if there is authentication, what will be recorded and played back by default is a session cookie, which will change with each log in, so you would need to execute the login request, extract the session cookie info and replace the session cookie in all future requests with that one, but that's a whole different question :-) |
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Mar 5 |
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Selenium IDE newbie - click on button not working .net Thanks Caroline, if you find an answer helpful please remember to upvote it as well. If an answer completely answers your question, you can mark it as accepted so that anyone else with the same question in the future will be able to easily find the correct answer. |
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Feb 25 |
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Selenium IDE newbie - click on button not working .net When you said "doesn't work" do you mean nothing happens, or an exception occurs? It could be an issue of an incorrect css identifier, but we don't have the button html to see if that is the case. Can you include the page's html, or the relevant part of it? We could then create css, xpath or alternative identifiers for you that would work. |
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Feb 19 |
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SQL “sandbox” for new QA staff training: DB structure, approach, deployment and maintenance? As for SQL vs Oracle, the concepts are going to be pretty much identical, however there are a number of differences in the syntax and built in functions: dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/… |
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Feb 11 |
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Parse .htaccess credentials in Internet Explorer You may want to include information about what sort of tests you are running, what tool you are using to execute them, etc. |
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Jan 31 |
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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. |
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Jan 29 |
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What are the options for automated testing of screen reader in Web apps? I recently also found this resource: a11yproject.com |
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Jan 28 |
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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? |
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Jan 28 |
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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. |
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Jan 25 |
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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? |
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Jan 25 |
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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/… |
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Jan 24 |
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What are the options for automated testing of screen reader in Web apps? Jaws is one of many accessibility tools. If you test on Jaws, why not Window Eyes, Hal, etc. Where do you stop? The time and cost required to test with any of these tools is much higher than ensuring you follow guidelines and best practices for accessibility. At some point you get into testing Jaws itself (which hopefully their own QA team has already done) rather than what you are intending to test, which is that your site is accessible. I briefly used Jaws and Window-Eyes back in the early 2000's for this kind of validation and quickly realized that it wasn't benefiting anyone. |
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Jan 23 |
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How do I get Selenium Server to launch Chrome on 64bit Windows under Jenkins with Selenium Grid? You should mark this answer as accepted so if other people have the same issue they can easily see that this was the solution. |
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Jan 15 |
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Open source web security testing tools Burp Suite also has a free edition portswigger.net/burp. The professional edition, while not free is extremely cheap compared to other comparable solutions at $299 for a license. |
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Jan 10 |
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Selenium WebDriver: select value from KendoUI DropDownList Ah, that would definitely explain it for that case. I was going off of the example that was provided in the question, which still had a select element with child options. |
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Jan 10 |
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Selenium WebDriver: select value from KendoUI DropDownList I'm still not sure what you mean. By "The controls you see on the page" what are you referring to? Once the JavaScript executes and you are looking at the DOM loaded in the browser, it for sure is just a select element with option elements as children. |
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Jan 9 |
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Selenium WebDriver: select value from KendoUI DropDownList Just curious, is there a reason why Webdriver's SelectByValue method or clicking directly on the Option wouldn't work? |
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Jan 3 |
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Reporting Intermittent Bugs Absolutely agree. Another technique I like to use if you have automation is to execute the automation a number of times (100?) and see how often it occurs and see if there are any patterns you can see about when/why it occurs. |
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Jan 3 |
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Industry standard on testing zoom levels Isn't supporting zooming part of accessibility? People with vision problems often need to zoom in order to be able to read text on web sites. If your web site automatically re-adjust the size so as not to break the formatting (which I have actually seen quite a bit) then people with vision problems won't be able to view the site without use of third party tools (magnifying glass apps). With that said, so long as the JavaScript isn't doing anything crazy to auto re-size then testing one zoom level should be equivalent to testing all. |
