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Now on Quick Testing Tips

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 01, 2010
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I was honoured to join a team of contributing authors on Quick Testing Tips website that is run by Michael Kelly. Subscribe, visit, read, submit your comments and questions! ...

Testing Challenge: Results

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 03, 2010
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Participation Based on stats I have, over 70 people navigated to Escapa game page directly from my blog. I hope everyone is enjoyed, and I thank those who took a challenge of testing, found stuff, and posted their findings. I tracked on Software Testing Club and Twitter, in addition to my blog. If I missed someone kindly please [...] ...

Testing Challenge: real-time input game

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 01, 2010
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Now Closed – Proceed to Results A short intro I wholeheartedly support Matthew Heusser’s call to practice craft of testing, anywhere and anytime, above and beyond work responsibilities. Exploring, experimenting, and learning is always fun. To make a testing challenge even funnier I offer to test a small game. The game The program, or an online game, or an application-under-test, [...] ...

Test Automation Problems – Page Update

Posted by Albert Gareev on May 24, 2010
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Test Automation Problems series in my blog has received its own page. I also added Recommended Reading section to provide a few links to external resources. Don’t miss the latest article by Linda Wilkinson. ...

Automation I’d like to test: mobile phone GPS ...

Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 01, 2010
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A few facts to now Most of cell phones now come with a built-in GPS receiver hardware unit and GPS tracking software module. Basically, you can assume that any smart phone whether it’s Blackberry, iPhone, or Nokia, (or whatever) model has it, and it’s turned ON by default. A GPS tracking equipped cell phone can precisely identify its [...] ...

Blog migration complete!

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 04, 2010
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Blog contents migration has been completed. Read the entry to see what plugins were used on Wordpress platform. ...

Independent hosting

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 10, 2010
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This one is to announce that Automation Beyond blog has moved to an independent web hosting service. Maintenance works ahead. ...

Blog maintenance ahead – source code formatting

Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 04, 2009
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Blog maintenance ahead – source code formatting Thanks for the new plugin implemented in Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter project. The all pages containing code examples will be updated. New Look The example below is taken from my Text File Compare sample solution. Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") boolRC = FSO.FileExists(sFile1) If Not boolRC Then     TextFileCompare = ...

Do you want to help with the all new Software Testing ...

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 13, 2009
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If you are interested in writing about software testing then why not contribute an article to the Software Testing Club’s (STC) new magazine due to be published in January 2010. The STC are inviting anyone in the software testing community to submit articles for review on any testing subject you want to write about. The STC [...] ...

Let the migration begin!

Posted by Albert Gareev on May 21, 2009
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I originally used another hosting for my blog but experienced some technical issues. After tough evaluation I decided to relocate somewhere else and have chosen WordPress Blogs amongst others.  Relocation, reformatting and putting together of all the contents I have on multiple resources is a continuous project for me. I’ll be migrating piece by piece based [...] ...