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Use for questions involving problems with automated tests. Relevant for designing test automation, debugging test automation, automation tooling questions, and questions about when it is appropriate to automate. Questions regarding specific tools should tag those tools as well.
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Can Test Automation Engineers call themselves Software Developers or Programmers?
I'm not entirely sure if this is on topic or not. I mean, on the one hand it is because it has to do with testing. On the other, well, I'm not sure if it's actually answerable - but I'll give it a sho …
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Compare values inside two array lists java Selenium
If you're looking for a pure Java solution, it all depends on how confident you want to be that they're the same.
The easiest way to do it is to leverage the collections API who did all this work for …
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What's "Offline" in SDLC and when/why do we use test automation?
I would have responded with a clarification of exactly what "offline" means. I can think of three possible definitions.
Offline means disconnected from a network. If it is part of the requirements t …
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What Are Some Examples of Why Explicitly Sleep Statements Are Bad?
A hard coded sleep statement is generally supposed to represent some sort of mocked delay in the application that doesn't exist during testing.
The harmful aspect of this is that a hard coded value c …
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Should tool generated test data be deleted during tear down in test automation?
I don't believe by 'clear' it is meant 'delete'. It simply means you must ensure that one run does not spill into a second run. You may want to consider dumping the database before wiping it, or simpl …
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Should automated tests be efficient?
Scaling is always important to keep in mind. If you doubled the number of tests (which will happen eventually) to so now it goes up to 20 hours, would this be a problem? Maybe. You would start it at 5 …
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System for keeping track of regressions reported by RSpec
Why run tests you know are going to fail?
I would recommend breaking them into their own test suite(s) and removing/commenting them from being run.
Seeing as how they're expected to fail, I think it …
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What are some tools for fuzz testing?
I haven't used it myself (although I plan to on my side-project when I get it to private alpha stage) but I think Hexawise would be able to do some of this. You can tweak the phasing parameters (2 pai …
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What is the difference between "automated testing" and "automated regression testing"?
The truth is for a lot of people, there isn't a difference.
A regression test is something that is going to check your test results against some requirements. Good examples of this are unit tests and …
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Testing Unfamiliar Software
There are two supporting features that are great for testers.
Technical ability
Domain knowledge
Technical ability is more along the lines of "I'm testing a game, and I know graphics libraries. I' …
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Approaches to Testing a Scientific Library
An acceptance test is supposed to actually simulate the actual functionality a user would use. For example the acceptance test of using an email application would involve both logging in and opening t …
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Testing interactions with external systems
One of the fundamentals of testing is isolation - how do you make your test environment as isolated as possible. When you're dealing with internal resources, this is fairly easy as you have complete c …
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What is meant by "Automated tests don't find new bugs"?
The theory behind it is that an automated test will only catch exactly what it tests for. Since someone had to code it manually, someone is aware of how it will fail. By this definition it's not a new …
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How do you calculate your return on investment on automated tests?
Keep in mind that automated testing will, for the most part, only catch things that "flesh-and-blood testers" have already caught. This is a good thing, because we want them thinking about new ways an …
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How can I report coverage on an n-dimensional test matrix?
How to do it
Let's let your dimensions' sizes be C1, C2 ... Cn where n is the number of dimensions. So, C1 might be 3 if your values are Windows, Mac, Linux (I'm sure you'd have different versions of …
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