Hello Al! Great to hear from you! Amazingly enough, you are really poised to answer a question that is floating around the websphere: How are QTP and...
My name is Stan Taylor, and I'm a QA architect for Borland in Austin. I currently have two interests in automated functional testing: 1.) Borland has embraced...
I haven't used SilkTest in agile but I have used a similar commercial tool on two XP teams several years ago. We were able to automate a percentage of our...
Hi all, At work we connect to the mainframe using 'IBM Websphere Host On-Demand' java applet, which basically mimicks the green screens of yore. You know?...
... AFAK Eclipse's TPTP is a platform that allows you to write your own Functional Testing tools and plug them in into eclipse. The eclipse guys also bundle a...
... http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-TPTPAutomateFunctionalTesting/index.html ... Thanks Ketan! Much appreciated. Looking into the...
Hi Lisa, The following doesn't explicitly address some of your questions, but it lets you know how I'm pursuing some of them myself right now... I have...
I'd like to try out keyword-driven testing with WATIR, but don't want to have to create a framework myself if possible. I've seen indications that there are...
Hola friends, my name is Mike Bria. I'm a programmer by trade, agilista by birth, and coach by desire. I've been into programmer testing for the last 2/3 of...
It ain't cheap, but QuickTest Pro can test Java applets. It's had this functionality for several years, so it's pretty mature. http://quicktestpro.com/ ... ...
SilkTest uses a proprietary vendorscript called 4Test. For more: http://www.google.com/search?q=silktest+4test ... commercial tool ... maybe up to ... time to ...
Hi Matt, Unfortunately, I don't know QuickTest Pro and WinRunner are tested. All us product managers were based in Sunnyvale, then later Mountain View, while...
Hi, After years of being frustrated by new grads' inability to build product-quality software, I took a faculty position at the University of Toronto last year...
I'm not sure product-quality code should be the goal of an undergraduate education. We have a tradition of asking people to write programs so as to learn about...
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If you're looking at FitNesse, you might also look at Concordion ( http://www.concordion.org). It seems to meet most of your criteria except for being...
Hi, Ward, I'm not clear what you mean by "the idea of product-quality seems to be very deep and distributed". Can you explain a bit more? Thanks, David...
Greg - Toronto? You've got a good software test community up there. If I recall correctly, Michael Bolton and Adam Goucher are up that way, yes? You could...
Greg, I've already posted to this list asking about the new thoughtworks tool, which is called twist. http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist It will be based...
Speaking for Greg (always a dangerous thing; but I'm pretty confident in the answers) ... He knows us both. :) (I worked with him for a number of years) ... ...
... I worked with Adam for several years; he's the one who suggested I ask the list :-) ... Our students all learn JUnit; I'm wondering what could be added to ...
... It looks interesting, but is it purely for GUI applications? Again, I'm wondering what should be integrated into a portal to help manage (track, execute,...
... I have had zero success finding "one test tool to rule them all; one test tool to bind them." Worksoft Certify is a keyword driven test tool that will...
... I'm not sure what I want --- I know that having nothing in a portal to help with QA is not helpful (kind of a tautology, that :-), and ... I didn't know...
David -- I learned lots in school. Most of what we consider traditional computer science was still fresh then and it was fun to see order form over the obvious...
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Hello, My name is Fred Huse and I have been working in a Scrum team in an agile development environment since August of last year. I have been involved in QA...
Hi Fred, Welcome! This is a great place to discuss ways teams can use Fitnesse - and other similar Agile-friendly test frameworks - effectively: general ...
Hi everyone, I just got back from STAREast where I was jumping up and down in excitement about a couple of things. First was Hakan Raberg from Thoughtworks...
It was encouraging to see how Twist made use of Eclipse, they had some good solutions for test maintenance. It's a great trend. Also nice to know tool vendors...