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Accessibility Testing Requirements – Perceivable – Text Alternatives
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 24, 2014
In the series of reviews I’m looking at WCAG level A / AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requirements from testing perspective. Common Definitions Human Testing Brief – “You know as you see it” – quick ...
Accessibility Testing Requirements – Review
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 23, 2014
In the series of reviews I’m looking at WCAG level A / AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requirements from testing perspective. Scope (The following table of contents is taken from WCAG site and redirects to its ...
Web Accessibility: Impairment Categories (mindmap)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 18, 2014
The recent WTA session we performed prompted me that there are a lot of materials I can share with regards to Accessibility Testing. I created them while learning it for myself, using various Web resources. I begin with ...
WTA54: An Intro To Accessibility Testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 16, 2014
After somewhat a pause, I’m stepping back in as a facilitator in Weekend Testing Americas chapter. The good occasion was recent session on Web Accessibility, initiated by Michael Larsen. This is the area I’m actively ...
Accessibility Testing with WAVE Toolbar
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 10, 2014
Preface If you have just installed WAVE toolbar, the variety of available commands for sure looks overwhelming. And, frankly, professional Accessibility testing requires specialized knowledge and exploratory testing skills. ...
GUI Automation Components
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 09, 2014
To perform testing, GUI automation scripts need to encapsulate the following components: Test data, used for input and verification. Service functionalities, like reporting, data retrieval, etc. GUI mapping – set of logical ...
Scalability
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 29, 2014
Scalability is an integral characteristic comprising the following: How well volume of test cases can be extended without linear (or even geometric) growth of efforts for creation and maintenance. How well the same testing ...
Maintainability
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 22, 2014
Maintainability is an integral characteristic comprising the following: Updates in test logic and/or GUI mapping caused by the changes in the application under test. Design or refactoring of automation for the purpose of ...
Reliability – Performance
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 15, 2014
Performance of automated tests must be optimized by design and implementation, to achieve best coverage in shortest time possible within the constraints of the context. This should be achieved by use of configurable ...
Reliability – Attendance and Robustness
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 08, 2014
Attendance Automated tests must be designed for unattended execution. Failure criteria: Test script may stop or break execution at any moment. Manual action required to continue the execution. Full restart is required if ...
Reliability – Operation
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 01, 2014
Automated tests must be delivered as a software product which can be used (operated) by testers and other team members without special technical skills in programming or automation tools. Operation requirements for all setup and ...
Business Value – Usability
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 25, 2014
Automated tests, as a product, should be available for use by any tester (and other team members) with minimal technical skills required. This requirement heavily applies to the following procedures: Automation setup ...
Business Value – Transparency
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 18, 2014
Transparency of coverage should include written information about the following: Implemented Test Coverage – coverage of each and every automated test case, including test purpose and main execution steps. Executed Test ...
Business Value – Creation Effort
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 11, 2014
Creation effort maps directly to costs – one can compare creation expenses with potential savings. Creation effort is an integral characteristic comprising the following: Test design or re-design of manual test cases to ...
Business Value – Verification Levels
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 04, 2014
The automation is fundamentally limited to mechanical verification (aka Checking) – through comparison of values only. However, with proper design, automation may simulate many of usage scenarios, which will trigger possible ...
My look at requirements
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 02, 2014
With years of my career evolution as a testing and automation professional, I’ve developed my own practical view about requirements, their role, and how to deal with them in a context-driven, heuristic way. I’m ...
Business Value – Purpose
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 27, 2014
By industry standard definitions, test automation is created with the purpose of extending coverage, saving in test execution time, allowing for increase of test iterations, earlier detection of defects, and everything ...
Automation Requirements, Revisited – 2014
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 24, 2014
As I’m finding myself, I’ve been writing about QA Test Automation quite extensively in the years around 2010. No surprise – it was my main specialty. Then I was extending and sharpening my skillset in the field ...
Beware of Rapid Software Testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 10, 2014
Let my story be a warning. About 4 years ago, being a successful test automation engineer, I felt strong enough to challenge James Bach and Michael Bolton, who were loudly advocating for exploratory testing approach and, ...
FilterChildElementsByAttrRegEx (QTP, TestComplete, XML, VBScript)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Filters parent XML object by removing child XML nodes not matching specified attribute regex value. Implementation Unit Tests ...
FilterChildElementsByAttr (QTP, TestComplete, XML, VBScript)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 23, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Filters parent XML object by removing child XML nodes not matching specified attribute value. Implementation Unit Tests ...
GetChildElementByAttrRegEx (QTP, TestComplete, XML, VBScript)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 15, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Returns child XML node with specified attribute matching specified regex. Implementation Unit Tests ...
AppendChildElements (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 10, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Append all child elements from the list (including their attributes, comments, text nodes) to XML node. Implementation Test Code ...
Best practices of scripted testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 10, 2013
One “QA” reads a document how the application is going to be. To say better, it’s a writing of someone’s beliefs how certain, those explicitly described, aspects of an application should be according to ...
Whirlpool Testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 23, 2013
Agile Testing? Waterfall Testing? Here’s another cool name I invented. In case good old Exploratory Testing doesn’t sound cool to you :) PS. I guess, the picture speaks for itself. This is a slide from my presentation ...
“These requirements are not testable!” (Accessibility)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 13, 2013
“These requirements are not testable”, “These requirements are subjective”, and even “These requirements are not feasible” – all that I heard recently. You see, in Ontario, Canada, ...
Designing Data-Driven Test Cases
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 19, 2013
As I presented in my last post, a lot of test coverage is either data-specific or triggered by data combinations. This is an easy kind of tests to automate assuming well-known and explicit inputs and outputs. Below I enlist most ...
CRUSSPIC STMPL my matrix
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 24, 2013
In my test lead role, on each project I need to assess existing test coverage, or implement test coverage, or both. What I found helpful is a systematic approach: model, categorize and classify, analyze. My initial model is ...
notebook
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 24, 2013
Some good open interview questions for QA/Testers. What value did you bring to the project / organization as a tester? What is your vision for the role of testing? Do you know / follow any school of testing? What is the recent ...
What testers can learn from playing chess
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 08, 2013
(If they haven’t learnt that from doing testing) This is another my notebook entry, but entry unusual. I started it while playing chess. This is also one of the proud parent moments: my 9 years old son brought this ...
