Posts tagged "automation"

• Wrong in front of you.

  27 October 2011 · automation bias critical thinking gtac testing

  In 2008 I attended GTAC in Seattle, a conference devoted to the use of automation in software testing. Since their first in London in 2006, Google have been running about one a year, in various locations around the world. This post isn't really about the conference, its about a… more »

• Testing as War?

  29 September 2011 · automation exploratory testing security tactics warfare

  We are fighting an invincible opponent. The legions of bugs in our software far outnumber our attempts to find them all. Even the simplest of software releases, inevitably contains a 5th column of hidden pre existing bugs or quirks that combined with our changes could strike at… more »

• Are you sure you've "completed" testing? A Guardian Content API example.

  16 August 2011 · automation exploratory testing guardian tools unicode

  Testing doesn't complete, it might end, it might finish, but it doesn't complete. There's too much to test. If you ever need confirmation of this, test something, something that's been tested already. Better still test a piece of software, you know has been tested by someone you… more »

• Is your test automation actually agile? A Guardian Content API example.

  09 August 2011 · agile automation exploratory testing guardian random tools

  In my last post I discussed how test automation could be used to do things that I couldn't easily do unaided. In that example, execute thousands of news 'content searches' and help me sort through them. With the help of some simple test automation I found some potential issues… more »

• Test automation that helps, A Guardian Content API example.

  05 August 2011 · automation exploratory testing ruby

  Have you ever had to test an API that's accessible over the internet? or even one thats available internally within your organisation? They often take the form of a REST service (or similar) through which other software can easily access information in a machine readable form.… more »

• Random text tool

  29 July 2011 · automation random selection randomness testing tools unicode

  I recently blogged about some of the tools I use, and how some are so useful I keep using them. As I mentioned, randomness is pretty useful, and I have tools to help me generate random text. A few of my readers requested a copy of my simple random text generating script, so I've… more »

• Counting Strings

  11 January 2011 · automation tools

  If you've done the Rapid Software Testing course, then you'll probably be familiar with the Perlclip tool, from James Bach. If not, its a useful tool for generating strings of test text. In particular I find the Perlclip Counter string function to be pretty useful. Counterstring… more »