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 20	answered	Align and maintain functionality across multiple platforms/programming languages
Oct 19	comment	Selenium: reuse existing browser session, instead of opening new windows? I've had the same result, and I wanted reuse at one point to check cookie values in a site test.
Oct 17	answered	Should tool generated test data be deleted during tear down in test automation?
Oct 14	comment	What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment? We are a small company, so if there are issues we as QA deal with them, there really is no outside group to hand off to.
Oct 13	comment	How do I close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test? I saw there was an old defect on Selenium not closing Chrome that was fixed a few months ago, maybe you should reopen it?
Oct 13	comment	What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment? Two votes for Production Monitoring, although I think of this more along the lines of the NOC checking on the health of the system. That's how I've used the term in the past.
Oct 12	comment	How do I close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test? Yes there is - browser.quit(); Although when I used to run these types of tests before switching to WebDriver I used to have in my TearDown - self.selenium.stop() That usually did it for me.
Oct 12	asked	What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment?
Oct 11	comment	Best guidelines for bug reporting? It's really hard to get more than this list, anything I would have done Joe has listed. Nice work! :-)
Oct 11	answered	Best practices to test PowerShell cmdlets?
Oct 11	comment	Problem with IE9 security certificate when accessing HTTPS URLs using Selenium 2 WebDriver Self-signing I have found is the best solution in many of these scenarios, I did get the Security Exception add-ons for FF and IE8 to get around this in my environment. Have yet to try IE9 in my environment but I'm hoping it will be the same.
Oct 7	accepted	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8?
Oct 3	answered	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8?
Sep 30	revised	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8? Adding in page source change that will indicate change
Sep 30	comment	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8? So what I need to try and do is determine the change from <div class="RoundedBox Tab inactive" onclick="toggleActiveTab(this, 'ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_PersonalizationTab')"> to <div class="RoundedBox Tab" onclick="toggleActiveTab(this, 'ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_PersonalizationTab')"> and I believe this will be resolved. Not sure how to do this though...
Sep 29	comment	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8? I think this might be my problem is that the tabs contain the element, it's a matter of what is displayed or not. So even when I do a FindElement it will succeed because the element exists within the page whether or not it is displayed.
Sep 29	comment	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8? Is there a sleep for Web Driver? I've seen wait and used that but haven't found a sleep - or a pause, that would allow me to wait until the second tab fully displays before looking for objects there.
Sep 28	comment	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8? Well I'm using the same FindElements syntax when working on Tab1 and on Tab2, which as far as I know should get the current DOM. I avoid XPath whenever I can and am using the ID's of the fields which don't change, so even on intial load the ID's should be the same as any further refreshes. Using Firebug I have verified this is true.
Sep 23	asked	What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8?
Sep 23	comment	How do you wait for jQuery Ajax calls to complete in Selenium 2 I do use wait with success most of the time, but I do find the timings on some JQuery pages is not quite right and I either end up with errors on the field I am trying to capture as its caught but then not there. Either I end up with Element is not displayed or Element is no longer valid. JQuery definitely takes work with Web Driver to get things just right.