Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 08, 2016
Some people say it’s okay to have “just a job” and no passion. Some have their jobs paying for their passions. And some.. well.. Let me be direct. What I greatly admire about Rosie Sherry is her passion to ignite passion in others. Rosie founded Software Testing Club – and it is growing successfully year […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 03, 2015
With 500th post on my blog I make the following announcement.. Annual Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) is one of the most high profile events in the professional testing world. It brings together developers, testers, management, and researchers in an exchange of testing practices, theories, and techniques. Longtime member and supporter of […] ...
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 actually had. So I’m fixing this issue retrospectively. There are too many aggressive pseudo-education “courses” or scamming certification schemas advertised on […] ...
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 – here’s a new page on my blog – Testing Stories – logging this part of […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 01, 2011
I’ve taken time to organize ‘Resources‘ page in my blog. For now, it contains pages and resources for ‘Testing Challenges‘ and downloadable ‘Mind Maps‘ (XMind format). As for function libraries, I leave them accessible by category. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 04, 2011
Writing about things I want to do and want to write about. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 21, 2011
WordPress blogging engine has “Stats” plugin. Very useful, helps gathering a lot of feedback. There are also many other plugins, relying on the data gathered by WordPress Stats. Amongst them I use “Popular Posts”. As many of bloggers noticed last week, there was an outage of WordPress Stats server. This impacted not only site stats […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 07, 2011
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Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 11, 2011
Once a year I do something with my blog. Collate, update, migrate, clean-up, migrate, collate, … About 12 months ago I registered a domain name and migrated my blog from the free WordPress hosting. I purchased a lightweight theme, added some widgets, put it all together, and even done some fixing on my own. The […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 16, 2010
Now I’m done with the series: GUI Recognition with TestComplete 3 Categories, 10 articles, 8 code examples. Overview of object recognition properties. Run-time GUI recognition methods. Routine operations with Web Browser window. Code examples and detailed explanations. Note: more TestComplete content to come next year. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 28, 2010
I’ve been reviewing my investigation and code example posts, and realized that some of them are numerous enough to be grouped together as step-by-step tutorials. Here are the first ones. Active Directory – Sample Scripts FileSystemObject – Working with Files and Folders More tutorials will come this year! ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 01, 2010
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! ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 03, 2010
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 […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 01, 2010
Now Closed – Proceed to Results A short intro I wholeheartedly support Matthew Heusser‘s (update: this blog is now only available under paid STP membership but you can access another Matthew’s blog) call to practice craft of testing, anywhere and anytime, above and beyond work responsibilities. Exploring, experimenting, and learning is always fun. To make […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 24, 2010
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. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 04, 2010
Blog contents migration has been completed.
Read the entry to see what plugins were used on Wordpress platform.
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Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 10, 2010
This one is to announce that Automation Beyond blog has moved to an independent web hosting service.
Maintenance works ahead. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 04, 2009
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. New Convenience Code lines – easier to scan through, each line of code easier to read […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 13, 2009
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 […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 21, 2009
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 […] ...
