Some useful Xpath expressions
Here are some useful Xpath expression which were a little hard to figure out for a newbie like me so I am making an attempt to document them. Here are 2 of them,
Last Updated on Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:45
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What are webtests in Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team System 2008 offer variety of tests that you can create depending on the application and your testing needs. I recently came across a scenario where I want to test basic functionality of our home grown proxy server. The testing focus was to make sure that the server behaves as expected on the GET and POST requests send to it. I quickly figured out that I am going to need some tool with with I am able to record/capture HTTP request going to and coming from the server. OpenSTA was an obvious choice, as I knew I can do that in OpenSTA, but when you have a powerful tool like VSTS, you may want to think twice. Also, as all the other tests for the project were in VSTS umbrella, it made more sence to include these server tests to the same suite. VSTS offers a kind of test with which you can record/capture the HTTP/S traffic to your webserver or website or for that matter any such server that is communicating on HTTP protocol.
Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:21
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( 1 Vote ) TRX to HTML using XSLT and JavaScript
Here is another simple way to generate HTML reports from Visual Studio Team System 2008, test execution result files (.trx). I have already described how you can use only XSLT to convert TRX to HTML in my earlier write up - Generating HTML reports from TRX using XSLT. This article describes another similar method which requires xslt, but using JavaScript on the HTML page. Now, the difference here is to make the trx and xslt files independent.
Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 11:23
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( 1 Vote ) Choosing the right UI test automation tool
Okay, this may sound like a topic which has been talked about just too many times. But I am still going to express my views here. I can fairly say that people looking for this topic have quite a bit of (bitter) experience with UI automation. Let's not talk about good and bad of UI automation and keep the focus on the tool selection process, yeah, it sounds pretty heavy but it is indeed a "process" in itself before you decide to go with a particular UI automation tool for your project. Of Course, if you want to succeed! ( 1 Vote ) Issues related to Remote Desktop Connection on Vista
Now a day’s all new laptops come up with Windows Vista Operating System. Microsoft has launched Windows Vista Home, Premium and Business editions. One of the major problems with Vista is not being able connect to a Remote Desktop.
Last Updated on Monday, 01 June 2009 13:09
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There are few tests you can do to identify and resolve the issue
Introduction to QTP
Here is a compile of some learning I had on working with QTP on one of the projects, believe me, I have used a lot of tools within very small amount of time. I always had a challenge to master the tool to make the project - "test automation" project a success (at least for me). So every time, I learnt a new tool, I used to prepare such key notes that one should know to start working on the tool. Here is one for QTP, this was built on QTP 6.5 version which might be outdated now, but the core simple concepts that you need to know are still the same, so take a look, ( 2 Votes ) OpenSTA quick start guide
Four years ago, I was given a task of setting up performace testing lab for one of the projects. I had no clue about performace testing. So I stated with the basics, I read through the documentation I can get my hand on. Next task was to suggest a tool we would use for performace testing of a web based application. After trying numerous free tools, I settled on OpenSTA as it offered me what I was looking for. I was looking for customizable and smart script. It is little difficult to script in OpenSTA initially but once I got a hand, it went real smooth. Here is a quick start guide I have prepared on OpenSTA. I have taken most of the documentation from OpenSTA.org documentation
Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:20
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( 1 Vote ) TRX merger for Visual Studio Team System 2008
People working on test projects that involve test management and execution from Visual Studio Team System 2008 and who do not have a TFS server for reporting will find this a handy utility. I have already shown how one can generate a simple html report from a .trx - Visual Studio result file in Generating HTML reports from TRX using XSLT. But what if you want your html report to show test results from different testers in your team or you just want to overwrite the existing results with the latest? Without a TFS, this remains a challenge. Last Updated on Monday, 18 May 2009 14:53 Read more...Generating HTML reports from TRX using XSLT
Visual studio Team System 2008 can give you all kinds of reports for different kinds of tests you ran. This is possible only when you have a TFS - Team Foundation Server installed and configured. What if you do not have a TFS set up? In that case, you have to have VSTS in order to be able to open the test result files. VSTS uses a propritory format for results and it has extension .trx. If you look inside any .trx, you will find it to be an XML file. If you have VSTS on your computer, you can easily open this .trx file and do all sorts of filtering to analyze the results. But not all on your team would have VSTS installed, most of them would be your bosses who would be keep to see these results. Last Updated on Saturday, 16 May 2009 08:38 Read more...Converting Excel-based tests to VSTS manual tests
Managing test cases in Excel spredsheets is the most usual practice in test management. We all know the beauty and power that Excel provides. But, with Visual Studio Team System 2008, things are a little different. VSTS as it is called, uses a different file format for managing manual tests and also another major difference is, every manual test is a separate .mht file. I was faced with this situation of converting all my excel based test cases into VSTS compatible manual test cases. I had around 500+ tests and converting them into VSTS manually would have probably taken more time than to develop them afresh. I quickly pulled out a new C# project to do this task. It is pretty crude but works! and saved me days of manual work. Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 12:40 Read more... |
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