qa

What would you recommend for integration testing on PHP web application?

Hi there, I have been testing for a web-application written in PHP and JavaScript, and I am looking for integration testing tools that can be well communicated with a continuous integration server, potentially phpUnderControl. As an integration testing tool, I have used Selenium with Rspec which works just fine. This produces html file...

Driving multiple browsers that interact with eachother

Hi, We have a complex web application which uses a lot of JavaScript along with XMPP and a Rails application. It has come to the point where we need to test the entire system end-to-end. We need to be able to ensure various tasks can be completed without errors, one such task would be to negotiate a 1-on-1 chat session with another part...

[PHPUnderControl] Failed to Open New Project

Hi there, I have started running PHPUnderControl and followed this tutorial to get start it. I managed to run phpundercontrol locally but when I try to access my_project which I made it myself, giving me the following error: HTTP ERROR: 500 cruisecontrol-bin-2.8.2/webapps/cruisecontrol/WEB-INF/work/Jetty_0_0_0_0_8080_cruisecontro...

Clarifying questions in testing interview

Hi, Should I ask questions to interviewer to fully understand the functional and non-funtional requirements of a product if interviewer asks me to test that product and does not specify any other detail? For example, if interviwer asks me to test a Search Button – should I ask the following questions: How fast the user should be able ...

Scrum master - should dev carry on with no QA resources?

I'm a developer working in a small team with another developer and a QA who is split across 5 projects and I've recently been given the title of Scrum Master. I've a few questions/issues which I was wondering if I could get a hand with: I've not found any good central place for information on my new role, can anyone point me in the ri...

How to effectively manage manual tests in project?

In our team we faced problem of manual tests management. We have a suite of unit tests that keeps the project stable but we also ocasionally test our aplication manually based on some scenarios (to check if everything is OK on the highest level). The question is: how to effectivelly manage manual tests scenarios? They can change from ti...

Virtual machine vs physical machines for QA/UAT? .Net Runtime bug on VM Slices

My IT department is pushing me to use VM slices for out QA and UAT testing. I believe we should be using identical physical hardware to Prod. Our prod setup uses 5 high-spec servers. For QA there would be 5 vm slices on a single high-spec machine. Apart from the performance difference I’ve also experienced .Net Runtime crashes on VM sl...

How to penetrate the QA industry after layoffs, next steps...

Briefly, my background is in manual black box testing of websites and applications within the Agile/waterfall context. Over the past four years I was a member of two web development firms' small QA teams dedicated to testing the deployment of websites for national/international non profits, governmental organizations, and for profit bus...

WCF service with a version for QA and PROD

Here is my scenario...I have a WPF app that talks to a WCF service. The connection string settings are in the WCF service. The WCF service can be deployed to two different web sites, one for QA and one for PROD (each with its own URI). I want my WPF app to be able to be run using QA data or PROD data. Basically, I would pass a pa...

QA methodology/software for website development?

Can anyone offer any software suggestions or best practices for QA'ing complex websites? To be specific, I have built and currently maintain a few sites, and I'm always paranoid about breaking something when I release a new version. Because of this, I've built a pretty solid development environment tied into svn. I feel like my planni...

Test Case Writing Software for Mac?

I am looking for recommendations on test case writing software for Mac. I am aware of Seapine's Test Track software as well as Bugzilla, but I wanted to see if anyone else out there had recommendations? The software that will be tested is mainly in the iOS platform, though some apps are written to run on Android and in the OS X realms ...

Emulate a click on Gmail for QA

Hi, I'm writing some scripts with Fake for some QA routines. However, I'm having some trouble with emulating the a click in Gmail. The basic idea is to activating an account with an activation link. So I'm pretty stuck with the QA routine right now. I thought Javascript can be a useful idea. Any ideas on that? Gmail's DOM is ID hell. ...

Emulate a click on Gmail for QA

Possible Duplicate: Emulate a click on Gmail for QA Hi, I'm writing some scripts with Fake for some QA routines. However, I'm having some trouble with emulating the a click in Gmail. The basic idea is to activating an account with an activation link. So I'm pretty stuck with the QA routine right now. I thought Javascript ca...