I am currently updating a java-based web application which allows database developers to create stored procedure regression test suites for database testing. Currently, for test setup, execution and clean-up stages, the user is provided with text boxes where they are able to enter SQL code which is executed by the isql command. I would...
We are using C to build a system on ARM core (i.e. an embedded system). The question is: how can we avoid reentry problem in a formal way so that we are confident all reentry bugs are removed. This may not be a practical wish but surely important for any system, I guess. Just for the discussion, I guess drawing UML diagram or have a com...
I'm trying to research a term for software testing. Specifically, that applies to the following scenario: You've got software "S", which is in version V S has functionality to "whiz," "bang," and "zoom" You find a bug with S's zooming You apply a patch to address the zoom function S can now zoom S can no longer whiz. My question: Wh...
I'm an impulsive coder by nature and have started learning the virtue of patience the hard way in programming. One of the areas I fare badly is when I'm modifying existing code. If I don't have all the details laid out before me I invariably miss certain avenues that sometimes lead to regression. I'm okay in coding but underestimated mai...
I'm looking for a visual regression testing tool for CSS refactoring and see whether or not there are any unintended cascading behavior in a website. Ideally, the tool that can crawl a website (even locally) and grab snapshots of each page and store it in a single repository. When run for the second time, it will show the pages that ...
For performance testing, I would like to capture some traffic from a production server and use that as a basis to replay the request to a test server in order to simulate a realistic load in our development environment. These are all stateless queries, so no issues regarding cookies, sessions, etc. The Apache log timestamps everything ...
I want set up automated regression tests for a website -- the user fills out forms and I want to check for correct responses. Can anyone recommend tools for automating this? ...
Everyone likes to talk about reusability. Where I work, whenever some new idea is being tossed around or tested out, the question of reusability always comes up. "We want to maximize our investment in this, let's make it reusable." "Reusability will bring higher quality with less work." And so on and so on. What I've found is that when ...
Hi, there are 3 regression bugs while doing a regression test for a software. "local","unmasked" and "remote". Does any one know the definition of each? thanks ...
Hi, I have a program, let's name it a.out, that reads input from a file and writes some output to stdout. For example a file contains the line 2,2 and my program "./a.out file" writes 4 at the screen. Now in order to be sure that a.out works well after the patch, I am looking for a good regression suite for Linux. I want for every fil...
Right now I plan to test on 32-bit, 64-bit, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Basic, and Windows 7 Ultimate ... all with the latest service pack. However, now I'm wondering if it's worthwhile to test on both AMD and Intel for all the listed scenarios above or would it be a...
I've got regression tests of a Java system that don't bring up any graphical elements but do make use of the AWT event thread. Is there any way I can set things up to run this test suite in the background on my workstation without it constantly grabbing focus from whatever else I'm working on? (I'm running this on a mac.) ...
Could anyone explain the word regression test in an understandable way? ...
Hello. I have recently started a new job in a company that depends heavily in an application developed with Apple Web Objects. It happens that this company does not have a way to make automated tests whenever a new update is received, weather with bug fixes or new features. We have no access to the code since it is a proprietary applica...
I'm looking for a tool to test web sites that will follow a simple script e.g. URL www.example.com/SomePage FORMFIELD MyFormFieldID = "Some value" BUTTON-PUSH MyButtonID or CLICK-LINK MyLinkID WAIT 2 seconds and capture browser window images for comparison against a known-good master image set, e.g. a command like: SCREEN CAPTURE T...
If I have a test that requires X widgets as a precondition, I'd like to avoid the tedious process of making X widgets in the test through the front-end. The main alternatives appear to be either having a stated DB dump that is loaded for each test run, guaranteeing a pre-determined state (the dump file is generated by doing the precondit...
Hey, I am helping to set up a regression testing suite for our python web application. Many of our tests are scheduling style tests where the current date is important. For example: create a recurring event that runs every week for a month starting on Feb 1. In order to test this, what I really want to do is override the current date so...