automated-testing

Best Practice for Cross-Platform Browser Testing for Intranet site for small team?

Hi, in my team usually one web developer creates the web app then does some alpha testing himself before passing the fuller testing to the only tester in the company. So you probably can guess that we don't have a lot of free pcs or resources available so we can't do the wmware or virtual pc thingy :( So based on the resources on this ...

Finding suitable tests for changeset

Dear All, We are using cobertura as code coverage tool. The tests are done using RFT-Rational Functional Tester (500 odd tests). Running RFT takes quite long time. To encourage developers to run the RFT tests, we are thinking of tool that is capable of listing the tests that cover the 'change set'. Approach is roughly:-> On integra...

How to use automation for testing application involving highly complex calculations?

Hi, I want to following things for testing a application involving complex calculations: How to use test automation tools for testing calculations?(using automation tools like QTP or open source tools) How to decide coverage while testing calculations, how to design test cases? Thanks in advance, Testmann ...

Automated testing for Classic ASP

Does anyone do automated QA testing for a Classic ASP site? I started looking at WatIn and MBUnit but not sure of the best way to structer the tests. ...

How to perform regression tests in embedded systems

What good practices and strategies are there for running regression tests in embedded environments or in other situations where the possibility to automate tests is very limited. In my experience a lot of the testing has to be performed manually i.e. a tester needs to push a sequence of buttons and verify that the machine behaves correc...

Automated Clicking Problem

I am coding up a program for automated testing which randomly clicks an open application window using various User32.dll library calls. My current problem is this, if a click would open a dialog, using Process.WaitForInputIdle() does not wait long enough for that dialog to be detected the next trip around the loop, which means several cl...

Automatically generating tests by recording and replaying how methods are called

Here is a program that I think should exist: When an application is running, it automatically records all calls to all methods. It then creates a test based on each call. (Such a test might be called a unit test, but I'm not doing so here because there is an issue of capturing state.) For a typical app, this program would generates th...

Any good testing framework with distrubuted environment support ?

I am looking form a test automation frameowrk which can work in Clinet/Server architecture (distributed env) and support a mix of operating systems like Windows, unix/linux and Mac I am currently evaluating and looking for only OpenSource solutions, I found just one framework STAF , any help on pointing out other similar framework would...

Automated testing for OpenGL application

I have a Java Application that uses JOGL to provide a large part of the GUI. Is there any tool which you know of, or have used which can automate the testing of OpenGL applications (or more specificly those using JOGL) Just to update: The tool can run on either linux or windows. ...

Jython exception handling within loops

Hi, I am using Marathon 2.0b4 to automate tests for an application. A shortcoming of wait_p, one of the script elements provided by Marathon, is that its default timeout is hardcoded to be 60 seconds. I needed a larger timeout due to the long loading times in my application. [I considered patching Marathon, but didn't want to maintain ...

Watij Replacement

Does anyone know of a good replacement to Watij which will allow automated tests to be written in Java? It looks like the Watij library isn't being developed anymore. ...

Good application for automated testing of .Net GUIs written in C#

Background The company I work for is developing a .NET Graphical User Interface (GUI) written in C# and we're almost ready to test it. Question Is there a list of standard accepted programs that do the following? Will be able to run automated testing of the GUI Integrate with VS2008 (not required) Create a log file of the test or ...

Automated running of games for test purposes

I would like to be able to run a playthrough of a game on a given machine for testing and benchmarking purposes. I have no control over the game itself, so I can't modify it in any way, it would have to be a normal unmodified off-the-shelf game that anybody could pick up for a local store. What I'd ideally like to be able to do is reco...

How can a compiled Visual Studio Test Project be run & results monitored without the IDE installed?

I'd like to copy a compiled Visual Studio Test Project (assemblies) to a target machine and run everything from there without having a license for Visual Studio on the target machine (note: only .net framework is installed on target machine). Considering Test Projects are compiled down to IL dll code I don't see it a big stretch to run...

Choosing an automated testing tool

My project is compatible only with Internet Explorer. I want the test scripts to get generated automatically as it is done in Selenium IDE. Can i use Selenium RC to test my application? I could not use Selenium IDE as it can be used only with Mozilla Firefox. ...

Is there a way to extract the message from a JavaScript dialog in Chrome?

I’ve been working on an extension for automating tests in Chrome, and I came across an obscure issue with JavaScript dialogs. The message shown in the dialog can’t be readily retrieved/copied. I’ve used the GetWindowText and InternalGetWindowText functions, but they only return the title of the dialog and the text from the buttons, not ...

Suggest a suitable Automated Testing Tool for my project.

Hi, We are in search of an automated testing tool for our project. As we are in testing department we prefer a tool which would have less programming in it. Please suggest some tools for us .Till now we are testing our application manually. Our project is being developed in Java. Is there any freeware tool that I could use or is it bet...

Automated browser testing: How to test JavaScript in web pages?

I am trying to write an application that will test a series of web-pages programmatically. The web pages being tested have JavaScript embedded within them which alter the structure of the HTML when they complete execution. It is then the goal to take the final HTML (post-execution of the embedded JavaScript) and compare it against a know...

What is a good programming language for testers who are not great programmers?

We would like to create some simple automated tests that will be created and maintained by testers. Right now we have a tester who can code in any language, but in the future we might want any tester with a limited knowledge of programming to be able to add or modify the tests. What is a good programming language for testers who are not...

Manual testing Vs Automated testing

Respected all, As many know testing can be mainly classified into manual and automated testing. With regard to this certain questions come to mind. Hope you can help... They include: What is the basic difference between the two types of testing? What are the elements of challenges involved in both manual and automated testing? What ...