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Can you paste your script here or attach it? There could be a whole host of reasons for the time out. It's not clear to me what the 'view' is, could you clarify that? Thanks, Mark.
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Hiya All,I attended a great workshop with Gojko Adzic the other week covering 'live documentation', the workshop was called "Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing", check it out on his site (http://gojko.net/).At the testing consulta…
July 15
No idea, depends how you're defining testing techniques... ;] How about this as a model for starters: Testing Practice = Approach + Test Types + Test Case Design Techniques + Execution Methods Approach: Ad-Hoc / Random / Exploratory / Scripted / R…
July 13
QA is somehting testers shouldn't do, according to Michael Bolton, http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/05/testers-get-out-of-the-quality-assurance-business/ Mark.
July 13
It's an analysis / measurement technique you'll (hopefully) never apply directly yourself as you'll get a code analysis tool to do it for you. What you would do when you'd completed the cyclomatic complexity analysis is assess what and how many test…
July 13
Some of the problems often faced: - Video/ Image/ context based testing - Spurious behavior on browsers other than firefox (IE, safari) - Need IDE for IE as well
June 4
Tricky thing is that, tester must have good knowledge of any supporting language to use Selenium (like Java, Perl or Ruby etc). Beyond that when tester goes to create testing setup for Selenium RC, s/he have must have knowledge of Add-ins to obtain…
June 4
June 4
Hi, We use YUI components in our application, which creates dynamic ids for elements whenever there is a YUI alert or pop up. Note yet able to figure out how to identify the elements of that pop up, as they always get generated with dynamic ids (yu…
March 29
@ priyanka Also go through webaii tool from telerik for silver light applications. Regards sowjanya
March 26
Facing problem while testing "Silverlight projects"... How to test those applications?
March 26
hi, normally record the test case and play it. If your captacode is 1 + 2 = 3 means, you plz wait for the next level of captacode 1 + 2 = 3 comes. U didnt need to change the code. just wait for ur turn to return Jeeva
March 15
The Cost of Quality is a mythical concept that everyone claims to understand but never applies. It's good to know to sound like you know stuff but you'll never get to apply it to the level you really want so best to avoid it. Oh, wait... that's non-…
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About Me
I'm the Head of Testing Practice at NMQA Ltd. (www.nmqa.com) a software testing consultancy based in London.

I specialise in review of the testing process, change management of the testing function, implementation of testing solutions, enablement of teams through training and 121 mentoring.
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An Introduction to Web Test Automation with Selenium and Ruby

An Introduction to Web Test Automation with Selenium and Ruby

As readers of this blog and other random ramblings of mine across the internet will know - for more than 8 months or so I’ve been working a lot with Selenium and Ruby. It’s been a joy and a pain at the same time. Beguiled by how easy the Selenium tools were to use I got started only to discover that they weren’t as accessible as they at first appeared. A definite case of ‘easy when you know how’… Continue

Posted on September 1, 2009 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

Mark Crowther

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and the Testing Profession

I posted earlier in the year about BDD. If you’ve not encountered BDD have a wander over to http://behaviour-driven.org/ and take a quick read or hit YouTube and watch Dave Astels (http://techblog.daveastels.com/) Google TechTalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOFfHzrIDPk. BDD isn’t some kind of Flavour of the Week new thing, it’s been around a good fe… Continue

Posted on August 9, 2009 at 9:22pm —

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At 9:55am on May 6, 2010, Ajithkumar G said…
Hi,
Join the community selenium users
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At 11:18am on July 23, 2009, Jaya said…
Thank you for the appreciation.
At 2:27pm on July 7, 2009, Yogesh said…
Hi Mark,

This Is Yogesh... Actually i want to know about any tool which would help me in automating character based UI like 'Command prompt' in window and linux.

Is it possible to use Selenium as a tool for this purpose.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards
Yogesh
At 1:05pm on July 7, 2009, Jaya said…
You have a very positive attitude. I should learn from you.
At 1:05pm on July 7, 2009, Jaya said…
I'm sorry that I offended u by my reply yesterday.. Thanks for adding me..
 
 
 

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