Hello-- I'm soliciting articles for the next issue of the Agile Times, the official e-magazine of the Agile Alliance. In particular I am looking for articles...
Hi Agileistas: TestMaker 4.2 is now available for downloading at the http://www.pushtotest.com Web site. TestMaker is my open-source framework and utility for...
I'm planning to get a job in the coming year and wondered what is the pay range for a quality professional? Here's my idea of the job for which I would be a...
What location or area will you be based? I would expect compensation to vary, say for example San Jose California vs. Denver Colorado (considering just the...
I'm rooted by children to Silicon Valley in California. Makes me wonder how much variation there is in the US for this kind of job. -Frank ... Frank Cohen,...
Hi everyone, I'm currently researching testing tools and I was wondering if any of you would have any suggestions. I'm looking for the following qualities in a...
I have been tasked with finding or building a testing automation framework for a legacy VC++ 6/MFC application. GUI level automation would be acceptable but is...
you could try using WATIR. ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/wtr/ ) download the tarball from cvs. This uses ruby to control Internet Explorer. Weve successfully...
... WinRunner takes more engineer time, because (reputedly) when the program changes the tests break. If your engineers practice Test Driven Development, they...
There is considerable resistance to automated testing in many software companies, let alone agility in general. It's very hard to convince them that it's...
... You can make it easy to use if you have a toolsmith supporting the tool. But no tool can do do all of the necessary engineering for you. I fear that if you...
I'm perpetually at a loss to answer questions like this one. It sounds to me exactly like this: "I'm looking for the following qualities in a carpentry tool,...
X P D A Y T O R O N T O 2005 http://www.xpday.info February 19, 2005 Are you looking for an opportunity to learn about Extreme Programming, but unsure about...
Better Software recently published a salary survey. It reports that 75% of the Test/QA Directors made over $90,000. Bret ... _____________________ Bret...
Michael, I had to laugh at your analogy. I suppose my question is a bit generic. I am looking for something that can automate functional tests. I am...
... User input to what, exactly? What kind of UI is it, and what kind of thingie lives behind your UI? (A web server? A COBOL server? A TCP client? A...
Slides from a lightning talk at the Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne AU: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/gmclean1/pstax/ It's primitive, but it...
... Glad that you took it lightly, which is the way it was intended. ... can automate functional tests. I am particularly interested in testing calculations...
JMeter is a good GUI-oriented testing tool that doesn't require coding. Details are at http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ Of course I should point out that...
... If you have a reasonably clean separation between presentation layer and business logic, it may be a good idea to make most of your tests interacting...
... How about "Use a sledgehammer and some strong words"? And if it doesn't work, get a bigger sledgehammer and/or use stronger words. :) For automated...
... Read /Working Effectively with Legacy Code/ by Mike Feathers. Then add tests for each change that you need. Add them by hook or by crook. If the class you...
There is no separation (and little organization) in the code currently. I was actually thinking of a bit of both here: do the UI automating (through MFC,...
... currently. ... Please accept my sincere condolences, and be prepared to find that automating anything but smoke test is simply not cost-effective. Unless...
Fortunately I do have the same access to the code that developers have so refactoring should not be a problem, it's just going to take a lot longer than anyone...
