testing

What tools can be used to help multi-user testing

When developing a website, I often need to test scenarios like this: When user A logs in, she should see X button while user B can not And doing this kind of testing requires me to do a lot of log in and log out with different test accounts, which is by no means convenient. I wonder if there are any tool that can help me do this? ...

Can't use flash in ActionView::TestCase when I want to test my helper class

I wanted to test a method in my helper class but when I do something like: require 'test_helper' class ApplicationHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase def test_flash_messages flash[:notice] = "Hello World" assert_equal "<div class=\"message-notice\">Hello World<\/div>", flash_messages end end than I get "NoMethodError: undef...

How can I automate testing installation OS to specific hardware?

Hardware is a x86-based platform with two network, usb, vga, and ps/2 ports. I need to test self-assembled linux-base OS. Installation is without any GUI. How can I automate this proccess? ...

Simulate clicking the button

How to simulate clicking button outside the form in Rails? This button performs some javascript operations that add some elements to page. How can I test this? ...

test command in Korn shell (ksh)

I have a question on the test command in the Korn shell (ksh). I know -ne is for comparing integers and != is for comparing strings. How will the test command behave if one argument is a string and the other is an integer. I have below conditions in my code and both are working properly. myCount=1 myCount=`expr $myCount+ 0` temp=`ps -a...

Testing a method that implements IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest

So I have a method that implements IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest. It accepts an HttpContext parameter. This parameter is just a form that is filled out with some XML. Here is the HTML that I am using to generate the post context: <html> <body> <form name="form1" method="post" action="http://localhost:7703/api.ashx"&gt; <textarea name="XML...

After having 2 years experience in Software Testing is it worth taking risk to move to Development

I have 2 years of experience in Software Testing. I have worked on both Manual as well as Automation forms of testing. But, this time I have a got a chance in my company to become a Software Developer. I know opportunities like these rarely come in life and I want to make use of it. I could not get any job early in my career in the field...

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 ...

How to test software installations on clean Operating Systems?

I want to test the installation/deployment of my software on a variety of Operating Systems. Is my only choice to do the following? Purchase VMWare Workstation Purchase the discs for each of the operating systems I want to test against ...

Why the 'Moq.Proxy.CastleProxyFactory' type initializer exception when using NET40-NoCastle?

So I copied the sample code from the Moq home page pretty much verbatim, and am getting a castle proxy exception. Here's my code (as a console app for an easier sample) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Moq; namespace MoqTestConsole { public interface ILoveThisFramework ...

How can I test JQuery UI Sortable with Cucumber

I'm tryting to write a cucumber/capybara test to reorder some items and then save them back. Any thoughts on how to best do this? ...

How to eliminate usernames and passwords from source code in Test Automation?

I write test automation and scripts that require windows authentication to the domain to access. I don't like keeping them in the app.config because they are available in plain text. I don't like prompting for input because then it isn't automated anymore. If I hard code them in the assembly they are visible from .Net Reflector and they ...

Test planning, results, search, compare and reports

I'm looking for a Tool to do Test planning Inserting test results Searching previous tests and results Comparing multiple test results Making reports out of existing test data The tests could be almost anything. For example testing performance of a specific software in a specific hardware. The point is that it would be possible to se...

Staying DRY while testing a controller, authorized via CanCan

I'm retroactively writing some tests, using RSpec, for a Rails project. I'm using the CanCan gem to provide authorization. I decided to write a spec that will test the ability.rb model. I then went on to test my remaining models. I've moved on to controllers, and I've run into a huge snag: I'm testing my abilities all over again! Basi...

WPF UI Automation With Infragistics Controls

Does anyone have any good pointers/examples/links for writing WPF UI automation tests with applications utilising Infragistics controls? ...

How to run tests conditionally in NUNIT?

I'd like to be able to set a condition from which to decide whether certain tests run in NUNIT. For example if a global variable x = 1 then only run the tests from a certain class/assembly or only run the first test. Is anything like this possible? How would one go about doing this? Thanks!! ...

Python: unit testing socket-based code?

I'm writing a Python client+server that uses gevent.socket for communication. SAre there any good ways of testing the socket-level operation of the code (for example, verifying that SSL connections with an invalid certificate will be rejected)? Or is it simplest to just spawn a real server? Edit: I don't believe that "naive" mocking wil...

Transaction rollback on Spring JDBC tests

I'm trying to get JDBC transaction rollback when using Spring-test without success. When I run the following the SQL update is always committed. package my.dao.impl; import org.junit.Test; import org.junit.runner.RunWith; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.test.annotation.Rollback;...

iPhone test automation - benchmark tools?

Hi we are expanding one of our projects in a major bank to include access via mobile devices. We are evaluating a few tools - inc. perfecto mobile, experitest and deviceanywhere. From our initial evaluation perfecto and device anywhere cover a larger set of handsets inc feature phones. Experitest on the other hand is strong and simple to...

Testing file uploads in Rails: can't convert ActionController::TestUploadedFile into String

Hello, Having problems testing a (working) upload in my Rails app (using 2.3.8): class ProfilesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase test "creates a new profile" do fixture_image = fixture_file_upload("#{RAILS_ROOT}/test/fixtures/files/avatar.jpg", 'image/jpeg') post :create, :profile=>{:username=>'johndoe', ...