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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! ...

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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 […] ...

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 […] ...

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. ...

Testing Evolution (mindmapped) After reading A Transpection Session: Inputs and Expected Results by Michael Bolton and James Bach ...

Beware of checking tools! (Inspired by Andy Glover)   (click on the image to see it full-size) ...

Some time ago I blogged about non-GUI testing approach in automation. I also provided examples of how COM/OLE Viewer may help in exploring methods and properties of undocumented objects. But there are other cases when an application is poorly documented, and you know little about its internal methods and objects. Google Code Search may help you […] ...

Developers want to hire testers. Testers want to hire testers.  What common and what opposite would we find comparing their requirements?   Tester Side Requirements  Represented by Eric Jacobson’s blog  post “Who Is A Good Tester?”  (original grammar and syntax retained)     Developer Side Requirements  Represented by StackOverflow  discussion “Tips for hiring good testers?” (original grammar […] ...

e-Pen and e-Paper – that’s what you need for e-Collaboration. And here’s the tool.     (It took just a couple of minutes for me to create a sample picture above) Don’t forget to try Replay button! ...

Imagine an intelligent and emotional robot sitting next to you, helping you to drive through a city traffic, and even remembering your driving habits. Does it sound like a sci-fi to you?  Well, not anymore. Meet AIDA – Affective Intelligent Driving Agent AIDA communicates with the driver through a small robot embedded in the dashboard. “AIDA builds […] ...

If on your project you are not restricted to using Microsoft only toolkit in your system administration, testing, or automation work, you may want to try SetACL as an alternative to CACLS. It has some more advanced features, especially when it comes to setting allowance of inheritable permissions. Area of use Security Configuration Assessment and Management, […] ...

Here is yet another discussion about automated testing, and whether it’s purely checking or some more, that Arjan Kranenburg published on his web-site. (You may also want to read Matt Heusser’s “How are you going to *test* that?” Update: the link is no longer valid. STP web-site closed public access to the blogs hosted there.) I posted my comments […] ...

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 […] ...

Studying programming through record/playback sometimes results in a really weird code. What is wrong with Matryoshka Programming? ...

Sure, computer programs are now very complex systems – but they are always a part of even more complex system – Infrastructure. Therefore, testing is not limited to a program testing. Microsoft *ACLS.EXE family of tools is a handy set for investigation and testing of implemented security permissions. Don’t be afraid of command line! CACLS.EXE […] ...

Blog contents migration has been completed. Read the entry to see what plugins were used on Wordpress platform. ...

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 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 […] ...

While I was enjoying reading the series of articles and discussions around the subject, some points of concern questions were crystallizing in my mind, and now I feel ready to join the discussion by asking them. Part I – Overview What’s it about? In the nutshell (in my humble opinion), a dire need in terms separation […] ...

This is the discussion that took place on Software Testing Club forum. What are the most important things I see in it and what comments I feel necessary to give ? End-user perspective I’m looking for something that I can use as an “out of the box” solution Apart of computer software world this is the […] ...

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 […] ...

With regards to a recent post in Phil Kirkham’s blog. So it seems that any technical job challenge could be resolved with help of crowdsourcing. All you need to do is posting your request on the site like “GetAFreelancer” or “ScriptLance” and offering some money. While exploring projects section I also found requests for non-technical […] ...

Hospital error leads to radiation overdoses The article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cedars13-2009oct13,0,1200257.story (…) Doctors believed it would provide them more useful data to analyze disruptions in the flow of blood to brain tissue. That meant resetting the machine to override the pre-programmed instructions that came with the scanner when it was installed. “There was a misunderstanding about an […] ...

This is the discussion slowly going on Justin Dessonville’s blog post. With the arguments taken from famous “Testing vs. Checking” article by Michael Bolton it once again reminds me of Luddites. The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced […] ...

At Pingdom Tools you can submit your web-page address and almost instantly get stats reported. What it does? The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is […] ...

jargondatabase.com – jargon terms and abbreviations. As for the terms mentioned in the title of the post, here are the links. Open Source Warfare Shamozzle Wiki Spam   ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   Documentation  Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Continuum API Guide (http://mbs.microsoft.com/downloads/public/GP90Docs/ContinuumAPIGuide.pdf) is the only main published document, which is pretty short though. Many of available functionalities are just mentioned or briefly referenced but not documented in details. Exploring DLL library directly I was able to retrieve more details on ...

Is looking at the back-end useful for black-box functional testing? Do you want to explore all properties and methods of COM object you use in your Automation? Do you want to know (and, also, be able to modify) all COM libraries installed on your system? – If yes, you will probably want to use (or […] ...