Alessandro Da Rugna

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I have a Computer Science B.D. (roughly) taken at Università degli Studi di Trieste (IT). My job is in the Software Quality Assurance team at a big insurance and banking company. I focus on automatied testing of web applications, using different softwares.

In my spare time I like travelling, going at concerts and reading science-fiction books.

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Sono Laureato di primo livello in Informatica presso l'Università degli Studi di Trieste (IT). Mi occupo di Software Quality Assurance presso una importante realtà del settore assicurativo e finanziario. Nello specifico mi occupo di testing automatico di applicazioni web utilizzando diversi software.

Nel tempo libero mi piace viaggiare, andare a concerti e leggere fantascienza.

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Feb 13	comment	When should I start doing performance testing of a web-app? In the and I accepted your answer. Our customers complained about "performance" so now it gained attention. Thanks anyone for the great comments.
Jan 9	comment	Best free (or very cheap) automation tool for Windows GUI testing? Looks interesting, I'm giving it a try in the next days. Thank you.
Dec 27	comment	When should I start doing performance testing of a web-app? Customers didn't complain directly about performance, but some other problems they encountered and complained about are performance-related.
Dec 27	comment	When should I start doing performance testing of a web-app? I'll have hands-on an end-to-end setup. My question is summarized in: better to start immediately (when the web app is "young" and can change very quickly) or wait when the app is more defined?
Dec 27	comment	When should I start doing performance testing of a web-app? Working on "perceived performance" is a nice idea in many situations, I didn't think about that! I'll propose this suggestion, thank you!
Nov 21	comment	Are Selenium functional tests reliable enough to be worthwhile? +1 for the best practices link! Thank you
Oct 25	comment	What are strong points of RFT comparing to other test management tools? I do not know if Simplified Scripting is enabled for .NET, but this is the guide for disabling it: www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21405134
Oct 25	comment	RFT - very slow to add objects No, RFT records the tree structure of the page, using the browser as the root object. But you can dynamically get objects using the `find()` method, more details here: ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/06/0711_nowacki_nodwell
Oct 24	comment	What are strong points of RFT comparing to other test management tools? Wich OS/Java version are you using? Did you disable the Simplified Scripting? RFT isn't fast, but 5 minutes sounds too much to me.
Sep 26	comment	How to write a test case for CAPTCHA code Upvote for suggesting the use of stub/dummy/mock object
Sep 20	comment	Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files I'm still using INET PDFC, but an older free version. You can download now a 30 days free trial. It's the best tool I've found and I think it's not too expensive.
Aug 30	comment	Resources for test automation Spam filters prevented me from posting sikuli.org hyperlink, so here it is.
Aug 24	comment	Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files The blacking out of variable areas would be overwhelming, (10 different type of documents, each about 50-70 pages, that may vary every 2 months) so I prefer to stick to my actual implementation. I bookmarked your site though, looking forward for a full comparison library =)
Aug 7	comment	Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files Maybe I was not clear enough in my question. "Beyond Compare" supports text extraction from PDF, but what happens if the text is OK but there isn't the table containing it, and in image is missing? What if the text is OK but there's a huge hole in the middle of the page, pushing the text at the bottom? I need also a visual comparison. INET PDFC makes screenshots of the pages and highlights the structural (and of course, text) differencies, but It does not work on a lot of files :-/
Aug 6	comment	Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files The "Beyond Compare" tools does not seem to support PDF files. Binary content of files is different, as some dates and IDs change, I'm looking for some tool that also support some kind of check on how the pages are formatted, if paragraphs are missing and so. I tryed the 2.0.60 beta of INET PDFC but it's broken. I already opened a ticket to their support service. Stable 1.10 release has some defects and is not working very well.
Aug 6	comment	Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files I also do the same using Apache PDFBox for some content, but I need a "visual" check of the pages. Text may be scrambled or paragraphs repeated more than once on different parts of the document.