An engineering approach to Software Testing and Test Automation

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) thinking of those functionalities as system or service functionalities helps to assess them from purpose/value/risks perspectives. You can’t reach them manually, you can’t even see them, [...] ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I put all examples together.  Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\LogView4.xsl"?> <log> <area id="A001"> <description>Testing login page, invalid password</description> <step type="#note" ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today’s post is a little bit of a side mini-project within the test reports theme. What I wanted is to add more structure in test logs, but made it summarized. So I went to explore about simple approaches in that. Very often, on static pages (without AJAX) the approach used is [...] ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Let’s now take the examples from the previous post, and add more style.  Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\LogView3.xsl"?> <log> <step type="#note"> <time>21/04/2011 11:45:31 AM</time> ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I continue with more complex examples using previously demonstrated XSL parsing nodes grouped into sub-templates. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\LogView2.xsl"?> <log> <step type="#note"> ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present XML Tree to HTML Table transformation example. Here’s our XML record simulating logged test steps. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\Tree2Table.xsl"?> <log> <step type="GUI Step"> <description>Pasted data [User1234] in edit box [Username] ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example on dynamically building HTML nodes, with XSL, and from XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\LogView1.xsl"?> <log> <step type="GUI Step"> <time>21/04/2011 11:45:31 AM</time> ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example of an HTML Table populated with XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating stats data of a test session. XML Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=".\StatsTable.xsl"?> <log> <description>Test login page</description> <reporter>John Doe</reporter> ...

Parent page: Generating Test Reports The Approach The previous post sets a lot of requirements altogether. Let’s try now to put some answers. How we can have a free, portable, yet powerful viewer? If we go with a web-page format, we can use a web browser for that purpose. If we go with XML format [...] ...

Whether it’s an all-round automation tool, like TestComplete, or a lightweight Session-Based Exploratory Testing assistant, like RapidReporter, generating good test reports is a challenging task. Obviously, hand-crafted reports would be much better, and live communication is an ideal. Though quite often testers have to report in writing and/or remotely. And if testing is conducted with assistance of a [...] ...

Mind mapping is an extremely useful analysis and design tool. Though distinguish it with other roles, like presentation. Don’t waste your creativity, and don’t try to make a mind map fancy during brainstorming phase. Focus on the problem you solve. See also On importance of test log Telling testing story ...

Sometimes a PC goes to sleep, launches screensaver or locks the desktop during a long synchronization periods or other GUI inactivity periods, like generation of reports or batch processing. Adding the function below makes the script periodically moving mouse to avoid breaking of the execution. Place the call to the function within your time-consuming loops [...] ...

Mind Map Functions Comparison: One-To-One Relationship 1-1 Comparison: isValueEqual 1-1 Comparison: isValueLess 1-1 Comparison: isValueEqualOrLess 1-1 Comparison: isValueGreater 1-1 Comparison: isValueEqualOrGreater 1-1 Comparison: MatchIn / MatchFor Comparison: One-To-Many Relationship 1-N Comparison: isValueInRange 1-N Comparison: isValueInSet Comparison: Many-To-Many Relationship N-N Comparison: isSetEqual N-N Comparison: isRecordEqual N-N ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: Many-to-Many / Rule: Match For Set in Another Set Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Vector Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. Vector data structure is presented by a set [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: Many-to-Many / Rule: Set Match In [Another Set] Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Vector Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. Vector data structure is presented by a set [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: Many-to-Many / Rule: Is Data Record [in Dictionary] Equal To Another One Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Dictionary (Associative Array) Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. A record is [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: Many-to-Many / Rule: Is Set Equal Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Vector Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. Vector data structure is presented by a set (un-ordered array) of [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: One-to-Many / Rule: Is Value In Set Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Scalar, Vector Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. Scalar data structure is presented by any single [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: One-to-Many / Rule: Is Value In Range Definitions Supported data types: String, Number, Date Supported data structures: Scalar, Vector Comparison of values of different data types always returns False. Comparison of values of unsupported data types always returns False. Scalar data structure is presented by any single value.  [...] ...

Reference Page: Comparison Rules Automatic Comparison Rules Relationship: One-to-One / Match In String / Match For String Definitions Supported data types: String, Regular Expression  1. Match in String First argument – base string; second argument – substring / regular expression. 2. Match for String First argument – substring / regular expression; second argument – base [...] ...