We're building an Excel interface to one of our products. Nearly all of the functionality in our application that will be required by/driven by Excel is...
... An alternative approach is to automate Excel from a real scripting language via Win32 COM calls. Perl, Python and Ruby all have this capability. Grig...
... Indeed. http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ScriptingExcel has 99% of anything you'd need to do the job in Ruby. I've nabbed a lot of this code over the last...
I've been using Perl's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel stuff for one project lately, and Ruby's Win32OLE interface for another. The latter needs something more like...
Thanks for the recent responses on Excel testing. I was just reading Keith Ray's blog on testing http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/2005/12/04/: ...
... I would try to save the current expected value of the output in a database, or at least in a known file. Your tests will start by retrieving that value, so...
Sorry for the delayed reply: holiday, paying work, blah, blah, blah. ... It seems widely the case that UI tests are fragile. A test that's about X will be...
... any of the 137 ... of the tests change If a test is an executable specification, then it should only be changing if the specification changes, regardless...
If the specification for a method/class/test is changing OFTEN, then likely the design needs to be improve to separate out "the things that change" from "the...
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I have also encountered many situations where a transversal change affects many of the features/functions so tests have to be modified/added over a wide range...
... Define "couple" as "A must change only because B changed". Define "cohere" as "A and B share legitimate reasons to change together". Tests cohere to code,...
... OK, no problem. The ... I suggest that you don't have enough abstraction in your test framework. If you have to rejigger every test when the core ...
Well stated. This nature of coupling/de-coupling tests and designing/refactoring tests for speed/maintainability is one of the most difficult challenges that...
Situation: We're working on porting services in C++ to Java. Our customers/analysts are C++ developers, and the requirements are the inputs, outputs, and...
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Hello: I am a project manager for a software development company, where we use an agile process for our development methodology. I have been asked to look into...
Disclaimer: I work as a tester at Thoughtworks. ... For larger projects, Thoughtworks will break up the work into manageable pieces and distribute it among...
Hi Debbie. Let me be right up front and acknowledge that this email won't be of help in directly answering your outsourcing question - rather I'm going to...
I'll echo what everyone has said about the likelihood of success, but if you've got your heart set on it, Chris brought up the biggest problem I ran into: ...
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... customers/analysts are C++ developers, and the requirements are the inputs, outputs, and behavior of the old C++ services. This can be a pretty good...
As Misha suggests, I'll port this discussion to the agileaxioms list. This will be my only cross-post on this topic. I have responded to Misha's "Catastrophe,...
Interesting topic with some great points! Brian, have you worked in an environment that leverages offshore resources? ... From: agile-testing@yahoogroups.com ...
I have not worked at a company that leverages offshore resources. Note that per my response below, my answer was directed at outsourcing in general, not...
I would be interested to know how members of this group are agilely using test metrics and producing reports? For example: How many test cases have we for...
We have tried to keep our tracking relatively simple. We have a continuous integration machine that announces the number of tests that failed (we work hard to...
