I'm beginning a book discussion with my fellow developers, and the first book on the slate is The Pragmatic Programmer. Several members of our QC team have expressed interest in these discussions, and I'm wondering if there's an equivalent book for software testers. These folks aren't necessarily programmers (though some have some back...
I have a system to which I must apply load for the purpose of performance testing. Some of the load can be created via LoadRunner over HTTP. However in order to generate realistic load for the system I also need to simulate users using a command line tool which uses a non HTTP protocol* to talk to the server. * edit: actually it is HTT...
I really like the way fakeweb in Ruby can be used to fake http requests when testing. Is there a similar library or an alternative for Python? ...
Just attended a presentation where a testing company stated that V-model testing can be used in an Agile development team developing with java and c#. I would prefer testdriven development and automation of acceptance testing before V-model testing. Not sure if V-model testing and Agile testing can be considered the same. Looking for y...
I am doing A/B testing and I am facing Simpson's paradox in my results (day vs month vs total duration of the test). Does it mean that my a/b testing is not correct/representative? (Some external factor impacted the testing?) If it is a sign of problem, what are the directions to follow? Thanks for your great help. Further reading: ...
The following code is used to execute doctests in a Google App Engine app. How would you do this for tests written as unit test asserts rather than as doctests? #The solution and tests are untrusted code passed in to the GAE app. solution = 'b=5' unittest = 'assertEqual(b, 5)' #Here is the doctest version as a reference. solution = ...
I'm writing my first Rails plugin, and I'm quite stuck testing it. In simplified form: module Flashbulb def flash_messages() return <<END <!-- some HTML --> <script type='text/javascript'> #{update_flash_messages()} </script> END end def update_flash_messages(args = { :page => nil }) update_flash = lambda { |...
I like the idea of using an In-Memory Database such as SQLite when testing instead of creating Mocks for my Repositories. This way I can also test the code of my Repositories without any performance issues. What are the pros and cons of this strategy? ...
For a testing usage of not very complex WPF applications I often don't make installer - just, after building project, copy Bin>Debug folder content of a VS2008 project folder to a hard drive of a user computer and put an icon to a desktop. No records to windows registry. Are there any drawbacks of such a way of using windows application...
Do you think a tester should be a great programmer, or someone who just knows how to use computer, with no programming experience required? ...
Hello I have downloaded the latest iphone sdk 3.2 beta and my problem is I cannot test my apps on the device because the device (iphone or ipod touch) runs the firmware 3.1.2 any solutions? if their is no answer just tell me how to develop iphone apps compatible with 3.1.2 using the SDK 3.2 thanks ...
Hello, I have implemented In App purchase in one of the existing application. I have also created SandBox account for testing it. I have run the application and tested it, its working perfect. Since, I have tested it, by buying the feature, it means I have bought that feature. Now, there is a change in code and I want to re-test it (In...
is there any tool that can help in automation testing of PDF forms ? any help appreciated ...
In order to release a device to the market, You need to run the Compatibility Test Suite given by android...I need to know how to download and run it.. ...
We are currently in the process of evaluating a couple of iPhone development shops and we're putting together a list of questions/topics that we'll be asking them about when we meet. To make sure that we have the most relevant areas covered, what would you ask when evaluating an iPhone developer or development shop? Our main areas are:...
I've been assigned the task of testing our database. It's a test database and we can do anything we want to it and easily roll it back. I've been given this task because we're still in design phase'ish (meaning any changes at any point in time of the project can happen... renaming the Person.FirstName column to [First_Name] and later ren...
Hi all, I use VS 2008 Team Suite Enterprise, and Team Explorer...for connect to TFS. I have a solution with 34 projects. There are 4 Tests Projects, but Now I can view de Test projects... It appears only the folder (the csproj) but NO the list of files of csproj. When I click on properties of csproj, I get this error: object referen...
Hi! I´m receiving a very strange error with NHibernate 2.1.2.4000 GA and latest version of FluentNHibernate. I can save an entity but can´t load it back after a call to Flush() and Clear(). This is my entity: public class Application { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string KeyName { get; set; }...
I'm currecntly developping a sample orders management solution using VB.NET 2008, NHibernate, FluentNHibernate and Linq for NHibernate. On runtime, I get the following error: Failed to queue test run [...] Test run deployment issue : The location of the file or directory 'C:\Open\Projects\Examples[..]\FluentNHibernate.dll' is not t...
Hi, I am working in a project which is quite complex in terms of size (it's to make a web app). The first problem is that nobody is interested in any products which could really solve the problems surrounding the project (lack of time, no adjustments in timescales in response to ever changing requirements). Bare in mind these products a...