I rigged up a "poor man's" selenium grid once using paramaterized tests to tell which device to run. All of the tests would run in a parallel manner, and it...
Hassan, I've had to do lots of cross-browser testing in the past simply to validate functionality worked properly in all browsers. (They don't always work the...
It sounds like all the responses were about tools to automate the tests. But if I understood you correctly, you want to run the test manually in one browser ...
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Jan 25, 2012 2:46 pm
Gerard -- Thanks for catching this distinction. Hassan -- Thanks for bringing the idea to our attention. Lately I've been spending a lot of time exploring...
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Jan 25, 2012 2:56 pm
I see my disambiguated link to Wikipedia did not survive Yahoo Groups. Try this google link to pictures instead: ...
I think this ms tools is also relevant http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/SuperPreview_Overview.aspx ... I think this ms tools is also relevant...
Yes, that's a great metaphor for what I was imagining. Too bad the name is currently synonymous with "lie detector". ;-) ... -- Gerard Meszaros Lean/Agile...
Gerard, Hassan, ... Personally, I wouldn't want to have to watch the tests run and hope I noticed differences between multiple screens as they flashed past. I ...
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Jan 25, 2012 5:02 pm
I agree. I wrote user documentation from just the screenshots collected by Swim. But Swim's killer feature was being able to drop into a scenario at any point...
Indeed, George, having automated comparison would be ideal. If it is available now, show us the tools! But even just having automated parallel execution would...
Gerard, ... A simple XOR of the images would give a visual indication of where the images were changing. It would have artifacts from irrelevant differences,...
So you can do this sort of thing with the open source verification tool approval tests ( www.approvaltests.com ). There is a namer factor that allows you to...
I just heard about http://mogotest.com David On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gerard Meszaros ... -- http://www.testdriven.com http://twitter.com/vydra...
HP have a new piece of software Sprinter that does this in what they call mirroring, duplicating actions on other machine configs and browsers as you drive it...
Anyone can add a tool to the spreadsheet (and anyone could delete it if they felt it was inappropriate.) Because this spreadsheet is for tools used in ATDD...
The Watir Conference and Test Automation Bazaar will be held March 23-24 (Fri-Sat) in Austin, Texas. This will be a lot of things. * A meetup for most of the...
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Mar 14, 2012 12:40 am
Friends -- How would you test a complex dataset? The data is organized into three separate excel workbooks, one of which does lots of detailed computation with...
So there are a couple of things that are important in tests. For legacy ( and that is what I would call this) change awareness is important. I would suggest, a...
Ward, I love throwing out a challenge to the community - bigger brains and all - I'm hoping to learn from this. Here is my take. ... I'm not clear on the scope...
Ward, Spreadsheets are one of the most common source of errors so this is an unenviable task. Here are some clarifying questions I'd use to move towards a test...
Hi Ward. You might look at ROO/ Cucumber. I used it to test pulling in a spreadsheet to load a corporate dashboard. It looked like you could reach inside it to...
Hi Ward, My first question is, why do you want to write the tests? When you say this... ... ... it sounds as though you want the tests to pin down existing...
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Mar 15, 2012 8:58 pm
Friends -- Thank you for your suggestions. I've condensed them into this suggestion: 1. Write a program that compares the old and new workbooks 2. Classify...
Hi Ward, For changes to the scoring mechanism, it might be worthwhile to create test material data to more easily demonstrate intentional or unintentional...
Hi Ward, what I am missing in your question is the domain. How does the business use this kind of data? What's the use case behind it? Best Markus ... -- ...
