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!
Last Updated on Sunday, 07 June 2009 07:00
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Issues related to Remote Desktop Connection on Vista
Sunday, 31 May 2009 23:18
Archana Deshpande
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.
There are few tests you can do to identify and resolve the issue
Last Updated on Monday, 01 June 2009 13:09
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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 Here is one for QTP, this was built on QTP 6.5 version which might be outdated now, but the core simple concepts that you need to know are still the same, so take a look,
Last Updated on Sunday, 07 June 2009 07:00
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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
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
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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
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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
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SilkTest Guidelines
Probably most of you (SilkTest savvy) people will agree with me that working with SilkTest and creating a reliable UI Test Automation suite with SilkTest is not an easy task. Though SilkTest has usual record-playback feature, it is much more powerful than that. Following are some of the tips/guidelines to take your SilkTest automation one step closer to success (now, how we measure test automation success is a whole different topic..:) and not covered here).
Last Updated on Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:33
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Custom generation of identity values in SQL Server
An identity column in SQL Server creates an auto-incrementing numeric sequence of values. When an insert is made into a table with an identity column, a value does not need to be put in the identity column. The value of the identity column is automatically filled in.
Identity columns are used when it is required to automatically number each row as it comes into the table. The identity column’s seed (starting value) and increment can be set at the time of creation of the identity column. So every time a row is added to the table it is assigned a number obtained by adding the increment to the old value (this value will be the seed for the first row)
Last Updated on Monday, 11 May 2009 19:55
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Retain a Microsoft.NET site’s ranking with search engines with the help of 301 redirection
Web sites on the internet need to undergo technological changes or revamps. This results in the same features and functions to be available at a different URL.
If visitors to your site have bookmarked such pages of the site prior to it undergoing the revamp, their attempts to access the site after the revamp are going to result into 404 (page not found) errors.
This causes the site to be black listed / de-ranked with search engines.
Assuming that your new site is built using Microsoft .NET, this document is to illustrate an easy way in .NET to retain a site’s ranking with the help of a 301 re-direction.
Last Updated on Monday, 11 May 2009 19:55
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