tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371774432011-11-28T01:48:42.787+01:00and (other) stuffChristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-1969700379372820772008-04-06T15:36:00.009+02:002008-04-13T13:21:57.715+02:002008-04-13T13:21:57.715+02:00

"Green IT" has been without doubt one of (if not the) the main hypes of this years CeBIT. The discussion about CO2 emissions has let the automotive industry all the way from a hype to a point that you'll be able to get even a Porsche with a hybrid engine in the near future. Regardless what one might think about that current hype, i think "green" technology is a good thing (no need to argue about

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-36620049471237538852008-03-18T14:59:00.003+01:002008-03-18T15:19:37.216+01:002008-03-18T15:19:37.216+01:00

I just received a phone call from a colleague at work asking me if one of us test engineers could help her out with some J2EE XML development gig. The funny thing is no one of us has worked as a developer for years... ok, we still do some programming and scripting to support our testing efforts and play around with some cool stuff in our free time but that hardly makes us experienced software dev

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-15610082189138736242008-03-14T14:16:00.003+01:002008-03-15T21:15:10.855+01:002008-03-15T21:15:10.855+01:00

The company i'm with recently made a partnership deal with those guys:obviously they rock (sort of) ;-)

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I finally got the time to play around with Ruby 1.9. It seems like Ruby can handle escaped unicode sequences now (finally! after all the pain we went through dealing with this encoding with Ruby 1.8.x...) :-)puts "\u00fc"=> üThere have been some improvements regarding the speed. This benchmark went down from 12 sec (with Ruby 1.8.x) to 5 sec on my sweet Mac Mini (1.5 GHz, Core Solo). Ruby 1.9

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-22324379094460383762007-10-28T11:46:00.000+01:002007-10-28T11:58:32.745+01:002007-10-28T11:58:32.745+01:00

Startet to work on a new project at a german autombile manufacturer last week where we'll work with commerical test tools again. It will be very interesting to compare the experiences we made with Ruby/WATIR earlier this year to working with tools like QTP this time.

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it kinda made his way through the blogosphere already, but in case you missed it, heres the link. I didn't have t he time read any of the articles but i looks pretty promising

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-69229520142731922472007-09-26T19:51:00.001+02:002007-09-26T19:55:24.695+02:002007-09-26T19:55:24.695+02:00

for those who missed it on the mailing list: Allen Hutchison has made the presentations from gtac avilable online

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We had some trouble with ruby and some unicode testing lately @work. While the ruby based library for IE test automation Watir still is a great tool in my opinon, Ruby became a real pain :-( My decision to use Watir for that project in question also made the decision for ruby ( so much for the simple logic ;-)). At first i really enjoyed the great flexibility ruby gave me while implementing our

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-50361478378701189862007-08-29T21:34:00.000+02:002007-08-30T10:18:34.212+02:002007-08-30T10:18:34.212+02:00

The videos of the talks from last weeks Google Test Automation Conference (gtac) in NY have been on YouTube for a few days now (you can find a playlist here or use the embeded viewer below). I haven't had the time to watch them all yet, but i hope i'll be able to catch up soon. Many Attendees of the conference have blogged about their experience at gatc. Kumar McMillan gives a nice summary on his

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-2375617532783666682007-08-26T15:38:00.000+02:002007-08-26T16:04:32.520+02:002007-08-26T16:04:32.520+02:00

While a colleague of mine used to listen to Ennio Morricone during the execution of a load test - i always prefered rather harsh sounds like Death Metal when i was watching my army of virtual users marching into battle ;-)Now that i'm older and (not that much ;-)) wiser it's Prog Rock what i enjoy most as soundtrack to my daily work. I noticed this the first time when i was working on automated

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-76200251199822771282007-08-23T21:14:00.000+02:002007-08-24T08:54:01.566+02:002007-08-24T08:54:01.566+02:00

After my little Rant the other day, lets talk about something really cool. Having worked on a few load tests projects (mostly "enterprise" software like CRM and ERP), i find it quite remarkable how sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg or LiveJournal can handle (extremely) high traffic with lots of inexpensive hardware and mostly open source software. The enterprise products on the other hand are

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alright, it has been a while since my last posting to this blog... well, here we go after several months of absence ;)Chris McMahon talks in the last post on his blog about something that seems to be symptomatic for our business nowadays: There are too many managers around and everyone (well, almost everyone...) wants be one of that lot. OK, getting paid like a manager certainly doesn't seem to

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-62009154276832616502006-12-04T22:00:00.000+01:002007-09-21T07:01:28.788+02:002007-09-21T07:01:28.788+02:00

&otAfter recommending those nice open source test tools such as Watir and Selenium to my colleagues @work (and to my boss of course) for quite some time, I begin to see certain dangers which come along with the availabilty of free high quality test tools. This fact combined with all those success stories all over the net, which state how easy to use those tools are or how fast a newbie could

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-87312077004364610122006-11-07T17:23:00.000+01:002006-11-07T17:28:08.628+01:002006-11-07T17:28:08.628+01:00

Today I found the a hint on how the nice Selenium tool got its name on some slides by Neal Ford:– Selenium is the key mineral which protects the body from mercury toxicity (from www.thyroid.com)– Selenium compounds medicate mercury poisoningfunny ;-)

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-1162765540085290372006-11-05T23:22:00.000+01:002006-11-07T17:29:31.272+01:002006-11-07T17:29:31.272+01:00

as Elisabeth Hendrickson sums it up in a recent post on her blog: there has been a big change in the acceptance test automation tool landscape. With frameworks like Fit and FitNesse and tools like Selenium and Watir test automation engineers finally got some of the powerful solutions they always dreamed of.Have you ever made a feature request for a commercial test tool or fought with the support

Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541074102029630913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37177443.post-1162740067238763602006-11-05T16:11:00.001+01:002006-11-07T17:22:17.332+01:002006-11-07T17:22:17.332+01:00

"Hello World". This is my first post on blogger :-) While the adventures of my real life still will be blogged on the nice blueblog (in german) I would like to share my thoughts on software testing, test automation and related topics here.

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