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Software Test Case Engineering: Treating Test Cases as a Product (or An Approach for Finding Defects that have Low Albedo Value) Software testing has become a self-governing and an important profession over time. As the software development process becomes a complex activity day by day, the demand to continuously evolve the software testing practices and keeping them aligned to the needs of software engineering is becoming important as well. |
Ajay Bhagwat
December 28, 2009 |
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Tips to Overcome Test Automation Challenges In her recent StickyMinds.com column, "Fool Me Once," Linda Hayes took a look at the difficulties encountered by those who dove into automated testing early on, only to be bitten by the record/replay shark. In this follow-up column, she offers some solutions to those who still struggle with making test automation successful. |
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XXX Automation In this article, Dion Johnson takes a peek at an automation approach that isn't for the immature or the inexperienced. It is, however, for testers interesting in improving their scripting technique. But don't let the title fool you—you can use Dion's "XML, XPath, and Xcitement" approach in broad daylight. |
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New Year, New Level: What's Next in Automation Sometimes we get so focused on solving the problem in front of us that it doesn't occur to us to ask if we are solving the right problem. Linda Hayes finds that starting a new year makes her think less about what has been and more about what could be. In this column, she offers her thoughts on the validity of the way we approach the most variable of all factors: the user. |
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A Word with the Wise: Assessment First with David Dang David Dang, a senior practice manager for Questcon Technologies, explains why you need think about the tool you select. According to Dang, the assessment of the project and its goals should always come first in test automation projects, otherwise, you risk maintainability issues down the road. |
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Warm and Fuzzy Automated tools are essential to software development. Tools can take the drudgery out of the more tedious development and testing tasks and let us get back to what we love: writing code (or in the tester's case, breaking code). This is especially true for security testing where the goal is not to prove that the software does what it is supposed to do, but rather that it doesn't do what it's not supposed to do. This is a much more difficult, if not actually an impossible, but, thankfully, we have some great tools to help us out. In this week's column, Bryan Sullivan covers one of the most valuable of these tools: the fuzzer. |
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Secrets to Automated Acceptance Tests Has your team been on the search for a fully automated acceptance test? Before you set out on that adventure, check out some of the accomplishments and perils behind the quest for complete automation, as explained by Jeff Patton in this week's column. Fully automated acceptance tests may seem like the solution to many problems, but you should know that it comes with a few problems of its own. |
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Training Test Automation Scripts for Dynamic Combat: Strikes Dion Johnson use the martial arts metaphor four common issues with automated tests and how test automation specialiasts can "train" their scripts to identify, capture, and handle these problems. In this week's column, Dion talks about how to make develop test automation scripts that handles dynamic paths within an application—which he call "strikes." |
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Peeling the Performance Onion Performance tuning is often a frustrating process, especially when you remove one bottleneck after another with little performance improvement. Danny Faught and Rex Black describe the reasons why this happens and how to avoid getting into that situation. They also discuss why you can't work on performance without also dealing with reliability and robustness. |
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Security Testing: What Fresh Hell Is This? Testing an application or code for security vulnerabilities is downright difficult—sometimes almost impossible. That is why Linda Hayes, a QA expert, is always searching for new tools that can help her test like a security expert. Linda discusses some of the challenges developers, QA analysts, and testers face when trying to ensure that software is secure. She also offers some solutions that simplify security testing. |
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