selenium vs windmill
Selenium vs. Windmill, what are your experiences, what do you recommend? ...
testing
Testing Ruby Gems under Rails
I'm creating some gems that can be used within Rails controllers and views. I'd like to be able to test the gems independently. But I've not been able to figure out how to create an instance of Rails inside the gem to test that the gem will work inside a Rails app. I strongly prefer to use RSpec, but could probably adapt a Test::Unit so...
Code coverage for people (manual) tests?
Are there any code coverage tools for manual testing? For example, if I write 30 new lines of code, compile, then run, is there any way to quickly verify that all 30 lines were run? Also, later, after I've checked the code into an official build, is there any way that I can verify that the test department hit on all 30 lines of code ...
how to test logging in with openid using selenium
Is there a way to test logging in to a site with open id using selenium? In selenium all the tests live in the server, so once fill the open id url in the appropriate field in the web page and am taken to the 3rd party web page for entering the credentials my test can't run any more. Is there a way around this? ...
Top things to look for when testing web pages/site
Hi, I was looking to get a prioritized list of things to look for while doing web site testing. There are things we could do to improve the performance of a site and there are things which affects the performance. Is there a guide for developer and testers to follow strictly which will deliver the best website experience? Related: W...
Recommendations for Soap Webservice Testing Apps
I was looking for some recommendations for testing SOAP webservices. I want to be able to create requests from WSDL, see those requests, and inspect responses. I would also like it to work with WS* compliant services (such as when using WCF wsHttpBinding). Any suggestions? ...
Autotest inifinitely looping
I've run into a problem using autotest with a Rails project, that when a test fails (ie, I modified a test file and autotest automatically runs the test), autotest continously tries to run the test (failing each time of course since the file hasn't yet been modified), instead of waiting until the file is saved again. And with growl notif...
Why did post fail in my Rails functional test?
When I run a post in my Rails functional test setup do post :create, :user => Factory.attributes_for(:user) end and it fails, I don't get any feedback as to why. I know that it fails because my assertion to make sure that there's one additional record in the database fails. I tried to do setup do post :create, :user => Factory....
How to fail tests by default if a dialog appears in watin
Whenever a dialog appears and there is no attached handler, watin auto closes the dialog. This is helpful when you don't want to add code for different/several simple confirmations the application might have. The issue is that using this default behavior can cause simple issues to go unnoticed, like a confirmation dialog appearing in t...
Testing ClickOnce Applications
What method would you use for testing a new version of a ClickOnce application (side by side with the current version) amongst multiple users? Are there any best practices (especially as the applications depend on different servers for the live/test versions of SQL / web services etc). We use internal DNS to set up http://application.ou...
VoIP test environment
I want to build a VoIP test environment for a student project. It should use SIP. My first idea is to use Asterisk, OpenSIPS or FreeSWITCH for the server and SIP Communicator, Minisip or Linphone as softphone clients. Does anybody have experience with setting up such an environment? Which combination should I use? Are there any tutor...
Debugging JBehave scenarios
I'm having trouble debugging my jbehave tests. I cannot get maven to start the jbehave tests and stop at a breakpoint. I have this in my pom: <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.jbehave</groupId> <artifactId>jbehave-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.1</version> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginMa...
Castle Windsor: How to test that all registered components are resolvable?
I would like to write a test that just ensures that all components registered to my WindsorContainer can indeed be resolved. Anyone have any ideas how I can do that? ...
Automatic testing of web sites from a user's point of view?
Are there tools available that will simulate going to a web site, clicking links, filling in forms, submitting those forms, all the while comparing output to expected output until it finds a problem? ...
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...
Data Viewer for AppEngine (Java) development server
The Google AppEngine development server simulates Google's backend database with an embedded database. It creates a file on you local disk that you can delete to clear the DB. Is there a tool that allows to browse and edit this data, similar to the Data Viewer that you get for deployed applications? Clarification: I am asking about the ...
Looking for web site test architecture with SVN
We are looking to do two things: Set up an offline web test platform, and Implement version control with SVN. The posts I've seen suggest the SVN repository should exist as a separate data store from the test and live platforms, probably on a different server. Can anyone point me to articles/posts on how to properly stage code be...
testing with selenium
I'm a complete selenium newbie. Where should I start if I want to learn how to use it? ...
Testing models with multiple database connections in Rails using ActiveRecord
What is the best way to test a model that is using a different database connection in Rails. For example I have a model FooBar that is read only: class FooBar < ActiveRecord::Base establish_connection configurations['foo_bars'] # ... end Are there any good conventions, hacks, or plugins out there? ...
visual studio team suite : How to web test programmatically?
Good day, I'm new to Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite web testing. Here's the action i'm trying to achieve. On a webpage, I have a dropdownlist that is populated from a simple database table. In my tests, I want to click on each items of the dynamically populated dropdownlist, and after the postback, check if a label is visible on the pag...