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Does Automating Your Manual Tests Give You Good Automated Tests?

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:46:26 +0000

Question by: testerab I notice that the tag wiki for the “automated testing” tag contains the following sentence: “Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that [...] The post Does Automating Your Manual Tests Give You Good Automated Tests? appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Which is Better: Manual or Automated Testing?

admin — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:43 +0000

Manual testing is better than automated testing. Even when automating a test scenario, you have to manually test it at least once anyway to automate it, so automated testing can’t [...] The post Which is Better: Manual or Automated Testing? appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Start Using Selenium WebDriver with Java

admin — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:34 +0000

by ALAN RICHARDSON This course covers the basic setup steps required for anyone starting out with Selenium WebDriver and Java. You will learn how to install: Java Maven Ant Firefox [...] The post Start Using Selenium WebDriver with Java appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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How to do Data Driven Testing in SoapUI

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:48:36 +0000

Learn how to do Data Driven testing in soapUI with this easy-to-follow tutorial. Go to http://www.soapUI.org for more tutorials on using soapUI, or to download a trial of soapUI Pro. The post How to do Data Driven Testing in SoapUI appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Velocity Slowing? Then You Need JET (Just Enough Testing)

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:21:58 +0000

Article by Nick Carroll The quickest way to get code into production is not to write tests. [Waits for reader to stop shouting "That is blasphemy!".] Now hear me out, [...] The post Velocity Slowing? Then You Need JET (Just Enough Testing) appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Principles of Painless Test Automation

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Article by Marton Meszaros Test automation causes massive headaches. Period. I’m pretty sure that every one of us who ever tried it knows what I mean. We end up with [...] The post Principles of Painless Test Automation appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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How to Write Effective User Stories

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:10:14 +0000

Writing a User Story for a scrum product backlog is easy … if you understand how. These slides were put together for a PHPLondon lightening talk which was given on [...] The post How to Write Effective User Stories appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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What About Priority and Severity?

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:21:08 +0000

Article by BY DANASHBY04 I wanted to write about the consistently hot topic of “severity vs Priority” – which I’ve noticed that many people seem to get confused about, and [...] The post What About Priority and Severity? appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Who Should Write Automated Acceptance Tests – Developers or Testers?

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:36:41 +0000

The benefits of having the programmers in your team writing and maintaining these tests is that they will be maintained and executed as soon as any change occurs, so they’ll [...] The post Who Should Write Automated Acceptance Tests – Developers or Testers? appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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Why Executives See Software Testing as EpicFail

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:31:40 +0000

Scott Barber shares 4 reasons why executives often view software testing as an “EpicFail” based on his consulting experience. The post Why Executives See Software Testing as EpicFail appeared first on Testing Excellence.

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