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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 ...
XML/XSL Transformation: Using Sub-Templates
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 14, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I continue with more complex examples using previously demonstrated XSL parsing nodes grouped into sub-templates. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML ...
XML/XSL Transformation: Tree to Table
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 04, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present XML Tree to HTML Table transformation example. Here’s our XML record simulating logged test steps. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet ...
XML/XSL Transformation: Using Complex Nodes
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 03, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example on dynamically building HTML nodes, with XSL, and from XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following ...
XML/XSL Transformation: Stats Table
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 02, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example of an HTML Table populated with XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating stats data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? ...
Generating Test Reports (the approach)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 01, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports The Approach The previous post sets a lot of requirements altogether. Let’s try now to put some answers. How we can have a free, portable, yet powerful viewer? If we go with a web-page ...
WTA07: Questioning the Mission
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 22, 2011
The very format of Weekend Testing sessions assumes “quick in / quick out” engagements, and, therefore, extremely simplified missions. However, facilitators face big and complex challenges trying to cover yet another ...
How to use custom markers with XMind (mindmap)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 16, 2011
Using mindmaps in testing is really picking up. Darren McMillan, one of the strongest proponents of it, has recently published “Mind Mapping 101” – “real examples of mind maps and their usage”. My ...
Interviewed by Shilpa Venkateshwaran
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 15, 2011
Last week Shilpa Venkateshwaran published on IT Knowledge Exchange my replies to the offline interview questions. Access online: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Access offline: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 ...
Generating Test Reports (MindMap)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 14, 2011
Whether it’s an all-round automation tool, like TestComplete, or a lightweight Session-Based Exploratory Testing assistant, like RapidReporter, generating good test reports is a challenging task. Obviously, hand-crafted ...
WTA05: Test the Envisioned
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 27, 2011
This is my second post on the testing challenge. When I was thinking of the main idea of the challenge, I thought of it as “testing the envisioned product”. Yet, while preparing for today’s post, I wanted to ...
WTA05: A Programmer’s Hat
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 25, 2011
I continue with the first part of a mission from Weekend Testing Americas session #5. This was an educational exercise. What we had? A simplistic environment It’s a square. It has finite size. Objects, contained in it, ...
WTA05: Two-fold Mission + Bonus
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 18, 2011
Last Saturday I joined Weekend Testing Americas session #5 as a “special guest” tester, introducing testing challenge I prepared under Michael Larsen‘s revision to fit WT environment and conditions. For those, ...
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 – SysProcessKill
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 – SysProcessExists
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 quality, companies should
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 ...
