I have written previously about my general automation philosophy. The automation philosophy represents what I believe to be a universal truth of any automation if viewed from a human perspective. This article applies this truth specifically to software testing. It is easy to see that software testing provides a full spectrum of work from routine […]
I have a simple philosophy when it comes to automation and I wanted to share it. The simplicity of this idea does not come from reductionism, it comes from what appears to me to be a fundamental law of knowledge work. Most work can be divided between two wide categories; routine and eccentric. Routine work […]
If you have undertaken any amount of testing with Selenium WebDriver you will have come across the desire to run your suite of tests against multiple browsers simultaneously. To make this easier in .NET projects, I have started up a project called “Selenium Super Driver“, which is a drop-in replacement for an IWebDriver. Using the […]
Here is a quick step-by-step example of how to get started with BDD in IntelliJ. You can also follow these examples if you are using other IDEs, but some of the automatic good stuff may not happen (like auto-downloading plugins to help you edit the feature files and prompting you to import new Mavan dependencies). […]
No sensible person is using JavaScript to perform simple form validation any more. If an input element is required, you just add a required flag. If you need to validate minimum and maximum values, there are attributes for that. If you need to check a complex pattern, you can supply an attribute for that. Essentially, […]
If you are using Selenium WebDriver to automate your browser testing, you will almost certainly have come across a variation of the following code. In fact, in many cases you will have found this kind of thing scattered all over the place. IWebElement nameInput = driver.FindElement(By.Id(“name”)); If you are using this to grab elements all […]
If you are running JMeter tests against software running on a computer or server, the chances are you’ll be manually matching your JMeter results with a graph of CPU or Memory Usage from the server. You can make this process a whole lot easier using the PerMon Metrics Collector, which is a listener that communicates […]
Here is a quick tip about JMeter’s throughput shaping capability, when using the jp@gc Throughput Shaping Timer. If you want to test, for example, 8 messages per second, the Throughput Shaping Timer will adjust the rate to make sure that: You send no more than 8 messages per second on average You send no less […]
If you are installing something with a dependency that needs a C++ redistributable, your best bet is to make sure your installer supplies that dependency. This is pretty simple to do as there are merge modules for the C++ redistributable (and they are likely to already be on your computer…) You will find the merge […]
WiX is great – but sometimes complex. Most of the complexity comes from needed to adjust things in many places to make a single thing work. For that reason, I feel the need to document the many steps required to do the following: Declare a property in the installer Allow the user to enter a […]