Teknologika - The software testing blog of Bruce McLeod

Agile Testing at the Microsoft SDC

Bruce — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:10:30 +0000

This is the video of the presentation that I gave at the Microsoft Solutions Centre open day.The full day of presentations is also available up at microsoft.com.

2010 Test Management Tool Survey

Bruce — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:01:22 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about testing tools lately, and have my own (biased) ideas on what tools are great and which ones suck. I thought that it would be interesting to create a survey and throw it out there to see what everyone else thinks and is using. So … here is a link to [...]

A peek behind our curtain

Bruce — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:02:06 +0000

I am pretty proud of our WatiN stack, it is in it’s third major version now and is an absolute joy to work with. After seeing some other’s code samples online I thought that I should share some of the details so people can improve what they are doing. We recently hit a new one day [...]

McWatin – can now open and close firefox by itself

Bruce — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:05:16 +0000

With the latest commit to the http://code.google.com/p/mcwatin/ repository can now open and close firefox all by itself. The next feature to add is detection if a browser is open with jssh running and to re-use that browser instead of always launching a new one, or close as appropriate. On thing that I have noticed is [...]

Making progress on the WatiN mac os x port

Bruce — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:52:34 +0000

So I haven’t worked on my WatiN Mac os x port for a few days, but I got back into it last night. The main hurdle at the moment is that the System.Diagnostics.Process class is not fully baked on Mono 2.4 on the Mac platform, because it doesn’t implement the /proc filesystem that linux does. The [...]

Using Monte Carlo simulation and bug fix rates to calculate when the product will ship

Bruce — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:20:41 +0000

Generally there are two key factors at play here: requirement delivery and bug fix rates. The simple way The simple answer is to average the number of bugs fixed per day, and divide the total number of bugs by the average. That is approximately how many days until you reach zero bugs. So, if you are fixing [...]

Browser compatibility testing

Bruce — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:58:42 +0000

What is website browser compatibility testing? The goal of browser compatibility testing is to ensure that the site renders without error on the target web browsers. Some minor rendering differences are expected from browser to browser, or within different versions of the same browser. The image below shows the rendering differences between Internet explorer 5.5 (which is [...]

Become a HTML testing ninja with the new Safari web inspector

Bruce — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:51:22 +0000

The latest nightly builds of webkit, includes the new improved web inspector. It includes great new features such as: - A Javascript debugger - A Javascript profiler - A resources panel so you can find where your page takes time to load - Support to look into HTML 5 databases For all the details check out the post here, then [...]

Brilliant beta testing, Safari webkit

Bruce — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:24:31 +0000

If you want people to test your beta software you need to make it as easy as possible to obtain and test. WebKit makes testing their nightly builds an absolute snap. All you need to do is to download the build and then run the exe. That’s it. Webkit exists as a dynamic library so the [...]

Implementing the Braidy Tester’s automation stack

Bruce — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:30:55 +0000

Twelve moths ago, before my last project started I went on a journey. The intended destination was test automation nirvana. The way to get there, or so I thought was to combine WatiN with The Braidy Tester’s Automation Stack. The end result, I hoped would be the Deep Thought of test automation. It didn’t quite [...]