Posts Tagged ‘testing’

Let’s see what Data Driven testing is? “It is an automation framework where test input and/or output values are read from data files. The different data files may include ODBC sources, csv files, Excel files, ADO objects, etc. The data is then loaded into variables in recorded or manually coded scripts.” Now let’s take an […]

“A Test Automation framework is a set of assumptions, concepts and tools that provide support for automated software testing”. So why do we need Automation framework. Can’t we just record the steps of any test case using the automation tool and playback whenever we want to execute the testcase? The answer is ‘NO’. Let’s see the Record/Playback Myth. […]

What is Captcha? Sounds like a core technical jargon, which in reality isn’t. “Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a human being.” You might have noticed in some registration pages, at the end of it there is an image which has some letters displayed on […]

Before I start, let’s discuss why do we need automation? A very common answer would be to reduce human effort, time and most importantly to do regression testing again and again. I am working as an Automation tester along with the manual testing team. My task is to create regression test scripts in Selenium and deliver the […]

If you’ve been around web security for a while you know that some of the more technical flaws can take some time to uncover. Heck, many of the issues take some time to just understand. Web application security testing is both an art and a science. It requires deep creativity and strong analytical skills. With […]

In this blog post I examine the methods and tools to test APIs for mobile and cloud. Post on The SOA Blog

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When talking about the automation test tool for web applications, Selenium often comes to mind. Selenium is a very popular open source tool used to test web applications, which supports most popular browsers like IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. I’ve been using Selenium 2 (Web Driver) for a few months now, and during this time, I […]

I often am asked by clients to evaluate the configuration of a BI delivery team and point out any changes that seem prudent.  Usually this is pretty straightforward, but over the years there’s some not-so-obvious roles I’ve come across that would make the cut on my dream team. So, without duplicating the many, many “roles […]

As we know, when doing load, services testing, we will find tools to automate business scenarios which human cannot do manually.  While for functional testing, shall we automate it? The answers will vary from projects.  When we are thinking about automation, firstly, we shall consider whether they are dedicated and professional resources to work on […]

During work on our in-house lightweight metadata repository (MDR), I’ve started to use DBFit for database acceptance testing and have been pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the tool and its ability to deliver on its promise of low entry cost testing. DBFit is a part of FitNesse, itself an implementation of the FIT acceptance […]

On our business intelligence team, we use a document to display what we call the “cross walk” for Source Tables, Mart Tables and Reporting Layer objects. And from this document, we can know the ETL mapping between source columns and mart columns, and we also can know the ETL mapping between these mart columns and […]