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Blog maintenance ahead
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 ...
DotNetFactory interface functions – ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 06, 2011
Close/Terminate Specified Process Parent page: Service Functions – DotNetFactory (QTP, VBScript) Description Create an instance of Process object through DotNetFactory – search for local processes by name – iterate ...
DotNetFactory interface functions – ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 04, 2011
Check If a Process Exists in Memory Parent page: Service Functions – DotNetFactory (QTP, VBScript) Description Create an instance of Process object through DotNetFactory – search for local processes by name – ...
2010/12 Quick Testing Tips posts archive
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 28, 2010
Data Generation On-the-Fly A Fly in the Ointment Keyboard Shortcuts Area Highlighter Trick ...
2010/11 Quick Testing Tips posts archive
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 21, 2010
Test Design with Mind Maps Usability Study: Beliefs Are More Important Than Requirements Automation Puzzles Folder Structure Template Document (XMind Mindmap) Rapid Reporter, exploratory notetaking tool ...
Automation Tutorials – Page Update
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 ...
WTA03: Mission Impossible?
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 15, 2010
“Explore the context of the test project, your givens, and your mission” Context-Free Questions for Testing, Michael Bolton, DevelopSense Weekend Testing Americas (WTA) session #3 was planned and facilitated by ...
TestComplete – FindChildSync
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 13, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete TestComplete provides a whole set of run-time GUI recognition functionalities, based, however, on the same approach: recognition by property values and/or location of the object in ...
Programs don’t care about ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 09, 2010
Quality is value to some person. Gerald Weinberg The story began when I received a new chequebook. Every bank, especially any of top 5 banks [in Canada], has a lot of claims about how much quality matters to them, and how much ...
2010/10 Quick Testing Tips posts archive
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 08, 2010
Excel-based test-reports-2 Don’t blame VBScript Total Validator Be aware of Bounded Awareness ...
TestComplete – Wait then Find
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 07, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete TestComplete provides a whole set of run-time GUI recognition functionalities, based, however, on the same approach: recognition by property values and/or location of the object in ...
Bugs go hard-copy
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 01, 2010
What, you didn't know that printer does not support mark-up characters? ...
Free Image Editor – Ultimate Paint
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 25, 2010
Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP ...
TestComplete – Couldn’t ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 23, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete First of all, a short note to those readers who like to rush into conclusions. This post is about a feature, not bug. Here I continue exploring TestComplete GUI recognition ...
TestComplete – Handling Web Browser ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 17, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete Close, minimize, maximize, move, resize browser window Description A WebForm (Page, Frame, table, etc.) can not be operated same way as window. The first thing function does is ...
WTA01: Testing is Learning
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 16, 2010
“Testing is a process of exploration, discovery, investigation, learning, and analysis with the goal of gathering information about risks, vulnerabilities, and threats to the value of the product.” Michael Bolton, ...
TestComplete – Find Child Objects
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 11, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete TestComplete provides a whole set of run-time GUI recognition functionalities, based, however, on the same approach: recognition by property values and/or location of the object in ...
TestComplete – Find Child or Find ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 10, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete TestComplete provides a whole set of run-time GUI recognition functionalities, based, however, on the same approach: recognition by property values and/or location of the object in ...
TestComplete – Run-time GUI ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 09, 2010
Parent page: GUI Recognition with TestComplete TestComplete provides a whole set of run-time GUI recognition functionalities, based, however, on the same approach: recognition by property values and/or location of the object in ...
Change Blindness
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 04, 2010
With this post I continue my examples on Bounded Awareness in software testing. But, again, first I ask you to read the following article: “Multi-tasking makes you stupid”. If you didn’t, here’s the ...

