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LINQ to XML

Monday, 19 April 2010 17:31 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - C#

After I built the TRX to html report generator, there was a little obvious need to have it centrally available so that team members can upload the results to a central place and manager(s) and PMs can view them. The requirement was a web-based report viewer. I could have built it using the same old tool with some web-pages to give links to the reports, but I also wanted to take out the tester's dependency to have the html generator tool. I turned to develop a simple web-app to do the job.

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Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 18:03 Read more...

Sample of Pivot SQL

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 14:16 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - SQL

As a part of reporting, my friend faced a simple looking problem. He was struggling for almost half a day to solve this by a SQL query. When he showed me the problem, I just realized that it is something that we usually do in excel called pivot tables and I asked him to look over the internet if there is something called "pivot query" and to our surprise there is something called as that...we just didn't know, so I am going to document it.

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Some useful Xpath expressions

Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:43 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - ASP.NET

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,

Get unique values using xpath
Get leaf node only using xpath

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Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 13:44 Read more...

What are webtests in Visual Studio Team System

Thursday, 06 August 2009 22:46 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Testing - Test Automation

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.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:21 Read more...

TRX to HTML using XSLT and JavaScript

Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:27 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Testing - Test Automation

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.

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