MichaelF

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I have been a tester, or led test groups, for over 15 years. Working in Windows, *nix and distributed environments I've come in as the first part of QA and built groups or joined existing groups. I like process and am an evangelist for process improvement. I also dabble in tool smithing, while I am not a great coder I stick with it and have built up a nice array of tools over the years in Perl, Ruby and PowerShell. I've also used a lot of tools and have been busy as well over in the SQAForums.com site for a number of years.

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Oct 3	comment	Automated tests pass every time when run individually, but when they are clumped into a test suite it's a toss up if the tests will pass I feel your pain, eventually I want to run this framework with my builds as well and have scripts set that can run various permutations but I don't want build failures because of a sporadic test failure
Oct 3	comment	Automated tests pass every time when run individually, but when they are clumped into a test suite it's a toss up if the tests will pass This is similar to the question I asked, although I run webdriver C# and NUnit: sqa.stackexchange.com/q/3581/18
Oct 3	comment	Is there a PC or MAC laptop built for QA work? Typically I build my own since often what I am testing has differed from company to company and project to project
Oct 1	comment	One tool to rule them all For what you are looking for you will need multiple tools, your best bet is to find what area you are strongest in (and get the biggest bang for your buck) then focus on a tool to improve that area. Then move on, remember automation takes time and resources and you can't do everything you are looking for at once or in one tool.
Sep 26	comment	Why does IE9 running WebDriver scripts gets out of focus if other applications are open? I use webdriver without these problems, though its not on Windows 7, I still use Windows 2k8 on my vm's. What is your test driver though, even with the webdriver code limitations on IE I still find the driver helps a lot in overcoming that. SpecFlow and Fitnesse have worked for me
Sep 26	comment	How to keep track of the features in a website for impact analysis? @A.J Are they using a tool? Do you have access to what they have? I typically use wiki's to maintain long term information for this sort of thing like user246 mentions, but if you don't keep it up then the information gets stale. As a wiki everyone has access and it can have multiple points of information flow.
Aug 8	comment	What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing? Actually this is not my problem, I use page objects for running the automation scripts so HTML changes don't really affect my changes. My issue is more focused on the framework having issues where it generates a false negative and how I can handle/deal with that.
Aug 7	comment	What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing? This sort of solution is what I need to settle the issues I am having with the failures, I was doing a similar resolution already so it looks like I was not the only one. Thanks!
Aug 6	accepted	What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing?
Aug 6	comment	What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing? I think my issue stems from my tests, being browser only due to the application, intermittently fail somewhere in a chain where I cannot verify the immediate error since a subsequent check passes. In general I have confidence in the Framework, but the individual failures trouble me, but perhaps unnecessarily due to the nature of the Web Framework and Browser. Thanks, this sort of gives me a better frame of mind to look at the failures with.
Aug 2	comment	Chrome driver not working in linux Strange but I just got this error today after having all my tests run and pass for months, I updated the ChromeDriver and that seemed to resolve it locally but not on all my remote machines yet.
Aug 2	asked	What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing?
Jul 16	answered	How to handle self-signed SSL certificate error in IE8? (Selenium Webdriver + Java)
Jul 15	awarded	Popular Question
Jul 10	comment	How do you manage the expectations of the management that the QA team would find all the bugs in their owned feature? @pgraham I never agreed with that because you can always find something new that does not work.
Jul 9	answered	How do you manage the expectations of the management that the QA team would find all the bugs in their owned feature?
May 11	comment	What's the difference between code coverage and test coverage? +1 for having the same definition as me! :)
May 4	comment	How should you interview for QA positions? I used to like the "test this <object>" question and got some good use out of it, but after awhile it became stale as people either heard about it or I just got tired of the same responses. I like the whiteboard and use that now when I can, give a diagram and start a discussion and that works out well.
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