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Test Buffet with Adam White
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 25, 2012
“A buffet is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners generally serve themselves.” – that’s from Wikipedia. The place where I’ve had lunch today was just ...
Automatic Data Maintenance – ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 08, 2012
A few simple Excel macros I use for automatic data maintenance. Date Macro Current date/time =NOW() 9/7/2011 17:57 Date formatted as text =TEXT(NOW(),”mm/dd/yyyy”) 09/07/2011 Future date (5 days from today) ...
BBST: Something to Brag About
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 29, 2011
I have made two major investments into my professional development this year. One of them, taken in April, is the course of Rapid Software Testing. I wrote about my experience and takeaways, as well as proudly gave a personal ...
Mapping Testing Story (My article in ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 23, 2011
Publication URL: http://www.thetestingplanet.com/2011/11/november-2011-issue-6/ Download PDF: The Testing Planet November Issue And you can view the large mind map here (click to open in a separate window). ...
CopyChildElements (QTP, TestComplete, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 08, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Copy all child elements (and attributes, comments, text nodes) from one XML node to another. Implementation Public Function ...
MoveChildElements (QTP, TestComplete, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 06, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Move all child elements (and attributes, comments, text nodes) from one XML node to another. Implementation Public Function ...
How to select random list item (QTP, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 24, 2011
Description Get object reference. Get total number of items in the list. Generate an index within the given range. Select item by index. Implementation Dim objPage, objList Dim boolRC Dim intItemsCount, intRndItem 'Assumptions: ...
Personal Recommendation: Rapid Software ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 14, 2011
Note. The reason of this posting is two-fold: While considering taking the Rapid Software Testing course I found surprisingly little of feedback information on testers’ blogs, and none of that addressed the questions I ...
Exploratory Security Testing Tool ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 07, 2011
Modern applications have a few layers of ‘defense’ that are supposed to protect against unauthorized access. The very first layer is at the front-end, merged with the UI. The UI part, client-side part, is at ...
Mark! Draw! Fire!
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 01, 2011
Archery is a craft, practice, and skill. I dedicated a fair amount of time in my youth when I practiced sports archery, and I still like Medieval age novels. Needless to say, now I dedicate a lot of my time to the craft of ...
WTA20: Flying Solo No Big Deal
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 24, 2011
Being a facilitator at Weekend Testing Americas I often invite people to participate in our sessions. I get all kinds of responses but one is particularly interesting: “I would participate in a session if you give me test ...
XMLElementDepth (QTP, TestComplete, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 20, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Locate XML node depth within the hierarchy. Valid argument: an XML element node (NODE_ELEMENT type). Implementation Public Function ...
CreateXMLDOMFromString (QTP, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 08, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Create XML DOM object by loading source XML from string. If the string is empty or source XML is invalid returns Nothing. Implementation ...
Functional Load Testing – MindMap
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 26, 2011
Remote exploration of functionalities is one of the things I enjoy in load testing. I don’t like the definition as “non-functional” though. “Para-functional” sounds better, but (at least for me) ...
A push back for automation
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 06, 2011
Reviewing the posts of this year I see that they were not so much about automation. Actually, way beyond, sometimes. And the focus of my interest has been shifted to more challenging area of exploratory testing. So be it – ...
Weekend Testing: Mindmapping
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 20, 2011
In this post I’m sharing our up to date experience mindmapping team-based exploratory testing as well as stating some expectations that a mindmapping product should meet to fulfill our needs. Structure As you can see, GUI ...
Weekend Testing: Modeling and Practicing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 19, 2011
In this post I share experience on how we’re building and using the process model; it’s an expansion of ideas from the previous post. The picture above is based on the sketching we made with Michael Larsen while conferring ...
Weekend Testing: Focusing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 18, 2011
Here I’m looking at the challenges logged in the previous post. I wasn’t the first one saying that it might be good to have certain expansions of Weekend Testing format. What if we have longer sessions? What if we do ...
Weekend Testing: Defocusing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 17, 2011
Note. Don’t expect a complete and consistent blog post. Below are my notes put down while exploring the subject. I have been participating in the Weekend Testing movement for almost a year, since Michael Larsen opened the ...
My Path In Exploratory Testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 02, 2011
Although it seems like just happened yesterday, it’s been well over a quarter since I took the course of Rapid Software Testing by Michael Bolton (the course is authored by James Bach and Michael Bolton). This is a major ...
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