My company, Socialtext, offers wiki wednesdays, something like googles 20% time. Today I am experiementing with some load testing alternatives. Has anyone...
... I have been looking at using clouds for testing our distributed system but have yet to do so. One of the things that has stopped me so far is that testing...
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... My box tends to tap out at around 20-40 simulataneous users, depending on if the bottleneck is CPU or I/O (bandwidth.) That's why I'm looking at the could...
We have a cloud offering which we test on Amazon EC2 but obviously this is slightly different from what you are looking at as in this case the environment is...
Earlier I claimed that having to rewrite tests because of UI changes was nevertheless worthwhile because the tests were a checklist of things I had to continue...
Hi Brian, OK, how about this alternate explanation. I'll add design to what I'd limited to testing and checking. I think there is a fundamental switching at...
I love JMeter -- haven't used EC2 yet, but have heard positive things from "early adopters". That being said, I've not found a tool to date that I'd classify...
... I don't know. How will the world be meaningfully different if we talk like this versus old-fashioned lingo? What does this buy us over longer strings of...
I worry that terminology might be used to keep newbies on the outside of a profession. If they don't learn our secret handshakes, we won't talk to them. I...
... The thing to do when someone offers you a secret handshake is to say, "Oh. Um. That one. I'm afraid I've forgotten quite how that goes, because of, you...
I agree, I feel that the testing vs checking argument, although making a very valid point, is introducing the risk of diverging the Software Testing...
Hi All I have been working with functional testing automation since a few years ago but now i'm having problems with the scripts maintenance. Somebody Knows...
Dear All, I am doing my PhD in Agile Software Testing and doing a Survey, Kindly fill this question and help me. Thank you 1. What procedure is adopted for...
Hi Conrad Since I'll be working with SQA I ever use Open Source Testing Tools. This couldn't be the best but are my favorites and they gave me great results ...
Jairo, Are you able to be a bit more specic about the scripts that you use and what the specific problem is with them? For example is it the quantity, ...
We are able to manage the UI automation using keyword driven framework. As Adam suggested, it maintains the library of reusable functions which are called at...
I have a lot of resources on my www.testingspot.net to help non-technical testers learn some technical material. There are a lot of Ruby links, there is...
Hello Agile Testing practitioners, I am pleased to announce the first Agile Testing Meetup group meetup which will take place at Skills Matter on 3rd December...
Would you like to speak or be interviewed to help teach PMI members about AGILE TESTING? I am a PMI AGILE Community of Practice Rep....hosting webinars and...
At Agile Dev Practices last week, Ahmed got some of us involved in a study he's doing at the University of Memphis. The survey is super quick to fill out. --...
At the recent software test and performance conference and since, a number of people have brought up the issue of testing training. To be honest, I think test...
Hi... I have a page of links like foo view view view bar view view view baz view view view where each of the 'view' elements is an href link that has no 'id'...
Hey Chris, always nice to be in the position of adding additional testability! ;-) I'm not sure I understand the problem. Any id will work for /Selenium/, yes?...
Web testing is not my forte but, I would find it most helpful to name the links after what they do or what they link to. Knowing that your tests follow link...
Our DB test suite is using an Oracle XE instance. Now we've intentioned to migrate to an in-memory DB to make the suite executed quickly. Suggestions? HSQLDB?...
The Software Engineer will be responsible for writing technical requirements, developing, and implementing various tasks for the ProStores application. The...
... I've used HSQLDB for in-memory testing. I was also using Hibernate, and there was a noticeable lag the first time you initialize the session. After that,...
9th WORKSHOP ON TEACHING SOFTWARE TESTING (WTST 2010) JANUARY 29 - 31, 2010 MELBOURNE, FLORIDA At the HARRIS INSTITUTE FOR ASSURED INFORMATION CENTER FOR...
... Yes, Dave Each developer has a private (local) instance of Oracle XE, because in pre-prod and prod env there's a 10g Oracle instance. I'm viewing H2 for...