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How to find last modified file ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 26, 2011
Reference page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Description Check folder exists – check folder has files. Iterate through collection of files and keep reference of the most recently modified file (its ...
XMLNodeSet2Dictionary (QTP, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 20, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description For each occurrence of XML node perform conversion to Dictionary, and store all records in indexed Dictionary object. Implementation Public ...
XMLNode2Dictionary (QTP, TestComplete, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 19, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Create Dictionary object and populate with data (only direct content – text, comments, CData, and attributes) taken from XML node. Naming ...
Numeric Boundary Testing (MindMap)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 05, 2011
I created this mindmap quite a while ago, as a follow-up to Data Container Boundaries and Complex Data Boundaries blog posts. Due to poor visualization capabilities of Freemind, I used previously, (before going with XMind), ...
Generating Test Reports: Final Example
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 23, 2011
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"?> ...
Exploring options for Expand/Collapse ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 14, 2011
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 ...
On Your Knees! (Congratulations, ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 08, 2011
A couple of things I have to say about this poster – a failure delivering the message and a fallacy of the concept. Delivering a message Pictures talk louder than words. Despite of an effort to show people jumping high in ...
Resources – Page Update
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 ...
XML/XSL Transformation: Using Styles
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 25, 2011
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" ...
Exploratory Questions to Michael Bolton
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2011
I interviewed Michael Bolton while taking Rapid Software Testing course, “- a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure”. ...
A Log Of A Back-Log
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 04, 2011
Writing about things I want to do and want to write about. ...
Testing and Hiring
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 25, 2011
A few more of my posts came out in “Hiring Testers” series in the Community Blog at Software Testing Club. In “How Come You Are Not Certified?” (the title was a joke, by the way, I do not agree that memorizing ...
Functionality Testing – Mindmap
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 19, 2011
While getting ready for the Rapid Software Testing course I dedicated some time for the “homework” – studying of publicly available exploratory testing documents. And here’s my ideas on Functionality Testing. References ...
Claims Testing – Mindmap
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 18, 2011
While getting ready for the Rapid Software Testing course I dedicated some time for the “homework” – studying of publicly available exploratory testing documents. And here’s my ideas on Claims Testing. ...
WTA09: What Is Testing?
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 13, 2011
The job of software testing, we know, is to provide information about the quality of a product. Many people, however, believe that the only way to get such information is to execute the software on computers, or at least review ...
If you are hiring testers..
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 07, 2011
..Or if you are thinking of that, and especially if you are wondering why it’s so hard to find good ones – you definitely need to become a reader of “Hiring Testers” series in the Community Blog at ...
2011/02 Quick Testing Tips posts archive
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 04, 2011
Reference Page: Mnemonics in Testing Defaulting Dependencies No Time for Ping Pong Sketching with a Pencil Review: VBScript vs. JScript ...
2011/01 Quick Testing Tips posts archive
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 30, 2011
Join To Earn 10x Bonus Attacking Passwords Good to Check, Worth to Explore Documented == Unambiguous? ...
When Duplication Is Good
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 ...
WTA08: Messing With The Smart Guys
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 16, 2011
The Mission Weekend Testing Americas session N8 was initially planned as a mini-project: explore and map the product, deliver a test plan and test results. That’s ambitious already for 90 minutes of work! However, we took ...

