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jQuery

Taking Screenshot of a Specific Web Element in Selenium

6 Sep 2016 by Nithesh AN

This tip explains how to take a screenshot of a particular web element in automation testing using Selenium and C#.

Dev

Architect

Testing against QWidget Appearance Regression in PyQt

16 Nov 2016 by schollii

Recipe that can be included in a pytest or nose test suite to compare a PyQt widget's appearance with a reference saved on disk, or generate the reference if it does not exist.

PyQt

Selenium Series Part 4: Killing Laying Around Browser Processes for More Consistent Selenium Testing

25 Jun 2018 by Sean Rand

This is an article to help you clean up browser processes during automated Selenium testing.

24 Dec 2011 by RaviRanjanKr

It's better to read Software testing[^]I suggest you to use Software testing with Intel VTune Performance Analyzer[^][Edited].."Visual Studio Test Professional 2010". have a look there-[Introduction to Visual Studio Test Professional 2010][^] for detailed description.

31 Jan 2012 by OriginalGriff

Because test engineers are independent of the code: they have no idea how the code works, or should work - their job is to test the functionality of the code against the specification.Developers have a vested interest in the code, and expect it to work in a particular way. They have also...

31 Jan 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You will find the answers in this famous and interesting article by Joel Spolsky:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000067.html[^].—SA

Performance comparison test suit

19 Aug 2013 by Kosta Cherry

Code to easily compare performance of code variants.

Windows

what is whitebox testing

9 Sep 2013 by Rakesh Meel

visit here..White Box Testing Technique[^]

Getting Unit Testing to fail

6 May 2014 by Betclic Tech

How to avoid the benefits of unit testing and continue to code as a decade ago ! I don’t consider myself as a software craftsman, nor a good programmer but there are a number of good practices that I try…Read more ›

Prolific: the New Way of Using Jasmine for Tests

4 Jul 2014 by Paolo Moretti

Let's see how to use prolific to make better, more effective jasmine tests

Jasmine

Improved Facade Design Pattern in Automation Testing v.2.0

11 Oct 2015 by Anton Angelov

Explains in details how to use the Facade Design Pattern in automation tests so that its class to follow the dependency inversion principle.

Testing Discrete Fourier Transform Program

18 Oct 2015 by Andreas Gieriet

Each meaningful test consists of stimulus, expected result, actual result an a comparator that compares the expected and the actual result.If you compare the actual versus the expected result here, you see that you have a precision issue.The expected result seems to be on three figures only....

data

Testing Discrete Fourier Transform Program

19 Oct 2015 by nv3

To me it looks like your results are correct to 15 significant digits, which is what was to be expected calculating in type double. So there is nothing to complain about. I assume your reference results were taken from a book and only the first three digits after the decimal were printed. So...

data

Posting Externally Derived TFS Test Case Results

28 Jul 2017 by ergohack

This is an article on how to post automated test results to Microsoft's Test Manager Infrastructure from external sources (e.g. your home grown automated test harness).

Unit Tests for Code that is Supposed to Not Compile

21 Jun 2018 by John M. Dlugosz

How can an automated test program test that something is rejected at compile time?

UTPP - Another Unit Test Framework

1 Feb 2022 by Mircea Neacsu

An easy to use unit test framework

Using the Builder Pattern to Help Your Unit Tests

31 Jul 2021 by Jason Sultana

Using builder pattern to help unit testing a service with more than just a couple of dependencies

dependency-injection

How to set run time values in unit test

6 Jan 2011 by Not Active

You need to use the Mock Object patternhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163904.aspx[^]

VS2010

Unit Testing - No Time for Sleeping

22 Jun 2011 by Andrew Rissing

A simple trick to remove the delay of Thread.Sleep for unit testing.

C#4.0

threads

23 Dec 2011 by Monjurul Habib

If you are looking for Software Testing Methodologies:Software Testing MethodologiesAnd if you are looking for Software Testing ToolsAll over hereThe place over here and here

23 Dec 2011 by thatraja

Also check theseTestability: Test before Testing![^]Black-box Testing Techniques[^]White Box Testing Technique[^]FYI Codeproject has section for Testing and Quality Assurance[^] so browse itYou can find more in Google

How to execute unit test programmatically

19 Jan 2012 by RDBurmon

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465192.aspx[^]

31 Jan 2012 by CPallini

Because test engineers are better in doing tests?Because developers shouldn't test their own created code?Because developers are busy developing?There were a time when job title gave an hint about the actual job.Test engineers are in fact useful (could we say the same of project...

Website stress test with JMETER

13 Aug 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

To answer one part of this question: you need to pass a full path to "java.exe" to the command you use in the batch file. Alternatively, modify PATH environment variable to add the path to this file. If Java is not installed at all, install it.As to the number of users set for Apache JMeter,...

performance

Visual Studio 2010 Unit Testing. Testing a Function Which Returns Datatable.

25 Sep 2012 by Dave Kreskowiak

What's the problem?? Arrange the method call, using Fakes if you have to, call it (Act), then Assert the resulting return value for the existance of an object, it's correct type, expected data, ... It's not much different from getting back a simple value type.There's little else anyone...

ASP.NET

How to Spring Clean Your Static Analysis: 10 Tips

7 May 2013 by c_a_dunlop

Get 10 tips for revitalizing your existing static analysis implementation—no matter what static analysis tool you're using.

Security and Vulenerability testing tool for .Net application

10 Jul 2013 by Espen Harlinn

Here is a bit of reading material: Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Version 3.2[^]Tools:Attack Surface Analyzer[^]SDL Threat Modeling Tool 3.1.8[^]As CdnSecurityEngineer mentioned you should try out BackTrack, Kali or something similar.Metasploit[^] is definitely...

How to test WCF Service Client

3 Sep 2014 by Raul Iloc

You could create a new "Test project" and create unit tests classes inside it for testing each WCF client method.Note that you should copy in the app.config of the "test projects" the WCF settings from the App.config of your "WCF client project".

WCF

Recommended Testing Tools

29 Oct 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see my comment to the question. Your question is well too wide to discuss the topic seriously. You can start...

Reflection about Software Testing

1 Nov 2014 by George Jonsson

1. You SHOULD never stop.That is of course the principal, but for economical reasons it might not be worth putting in the man hours to find a bug that happens every 10000 times compared to the development of other more pressing needs. Resources are limited.2. Yup. However, an experienced...

Reflection about Software Testing

9 Nov 2014 by Mohammad Zahid Hasan

Thanks for your interest in Software Testing. I just like to discuss about your questions.Question#1. We need to stop testing in a certain time. It may be depends on the following conditions:- Stop the testing when the committed testing deadlines are expiring.- Stop the testing when we...

Web Service Performance Testing Vs 2013 Ultimate

11 Nov 2014 by Member 10922498

Hi all, I have just finished a web Service(.SCV) with 5 methods and it's running with out any problem by using WCFTestClient. I successfully invoked all methods with the right expected result.In order to insure of performance and stability of all methods, i'd like to make some stress and...

WCFServices

Testing (stressing) hard drive, RAM and video memory

12 Apr 2015 by Frankie-C

Hard stressing will always remain a relative definition, because in spite of all your efforts there will be a condition for failure that was not touched in the test ;-)Apart from Murphy's law, if there is something in particular that you want test it's better to concentrate on it instead.you...

HDD

memory

Best Method to test millions of DB2 records

9 May 2015 by OriginalGriff

"Can i use threading?"We can't tell you: the problem is that we have no idea what your calculations are trying to do. If they are independent, then possibly you can use threading within individual steps, but to my mind Step 3 depends on Step 2 completing, Step 4 depends on Step 3 completing,...

SQL

DB2

Reasons to Use Interfaces over Extension when Testing

1 Aug 2015 by Seb Carss

Reasons to use interfaces over extension when testing

Java

Page Objects that Make Code More Maintainable

27 Jan 2018 by Anton Angelov

Through the help of interfaces, extension methods and partial classes, 3 page objects variations are presented that lead to more maintainable code.

Angular Testing Part 2: Jasmine Syntax

7 Jan 2016 by Dave Ceddia

Angular Testing Part 2: Jasmine Syntax

Setting Up Unit Testing

1 Feb 2016 by Gaston Verelst

How to set up unit testing

Integration tests with Travis CI

22 Sep 2016 by Sander Knape

Do you write integration tests? What about unit tests? I believe that more people say “Yes” to the second question than to the first. Which is kinda weird – for many applications, it really isn’t that hard to write integration tests. It might not even be necessary to setup yo

Use Selenium WebDriver UI Tests for Load Testing in the Cloud

12 Feb 2017 by Anton Angelov

Use Selenium WebDriver UI tests to create load tests executed in the Azure cloud. We will use PhantomJS and configure a load test through Visual Studio IDE.

Snapshot Testing React with Jest

4 Apr 2017 by Dave Ceddia

Snapshot Testing React with Jest

Organizing Service Mocks in Unit Tests

6 Nov 2017 by Bob Crowley

Minimize mocking code while still providing all necessary scenarios to exercise your business logic unit tests

All-Topics

ETL Testing, If Only An Automation Rule Testing Engine was Possible …

1 Feb 2018 by Member 11127135

ETL Testing and data-validation, dynamic SQL rule generator

Automated Visual Regression Testing on Cloud for Beginners

9 Nov 2023 by Suhagkumar Vamja

In this article, we see what visual regression testing is and how it shapes the automation testing world with the help of automated visual regression testing tools.

cloud

Wisej.NET

What is the difference between Test Plan and Test Strategy?

24 Jun 2010 by CPallini

The difference is between plan and strategy (test is just the 'scope'). Please, let me google that for you [^].

Load Testing

27 Jun 2010 by Sandeep Mewara

Try here:Google: Load Testing Tools[^]Personally, we have used Microsoft's VS Perf Tool. It looked/worked good!

Where is a good place to go to find people to test software I made before deploying it in my office?

27 Aug 2010 by Christian Graus

Surely the people in your office who will use this program are the best people to test it, as they know what they want it to do, and they are the only ones who can test their ability to understand your UI ?

encryption

HI Freinds Please Share Your Views on NUnit

24 Oct 2010 by Pete O'Hanlon

While NUnit is an excellent framework, one of the main drawbacks for me is that it doesn't have a native mock objects support built in - you have to use a separate framework if you want mocking support.Support for testing threaded applications could be easier to implement as well - if you're...

Manual Testing -Test Manager 2010

3 Jan 2011 by Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Manual tests are erhhmmm, how shall I put this, done manually. A manual test consists of a set of instruction for the tester to follow and at the end the tester specifies if the program passed the test of not.If you meant anything else by "manual testing", you'll have to explain a little bit...

How to set run time values in unit test

6 Jan 2011 by Sandeep Mewara

Have a look here: Loading Test Data from a Database[^]Full details here[^].Also look at this one: MSDN: Unit Test Mock Views[^]

VS2010

Test Last development: A primer for unit testing of legacy code.

27 Jan 2011 by caloia

Many teams have not yet fully embraced TDD or have legacy code in their codebase. This article is for teams that need to get test coverage of legacy code or developers who write tests after the fact,

architecture

JsTestDriver running but 0 tests....

26 Feb 2011 by Joshua Hepworth

Hi,I've been trying to get up and running with JsTestDriver to support continuous integration with my JS tests however when I run the tests I just get a report saying that 0 tests have been run.I've followed the numerous guides:1. Installed Java (C:\Program Files\Java\)2....

integration

HttpUnit and manipulating data for specific website.

10 Mar 2011 by fjdiewornncalwe

Why don't you try the HttpUnit sourceforge site. They have this awesome little section called "Tutorial" that you might find useful.

Java

What is Cyclomatic complexity testing in OOAD

13 Apr 2011 by Dylan Morley

Well then google[^] and read!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity[^]http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cq03316/[^]Cyclomatic Code Complexity Analysis for Microsoft .NET Applications[^]http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CyclomaticComplexityMetric[^]

OOP

What is Cyclomatic complexity testing in OOAD

13 Apr 2011 by santosh dhanawade

First try google for this then asked question,What is cyclomatic complexity?[^]Basically cyclomatic complexity testing techanique is used to insure that every part of software must tested.to find of cyclomatic complexitythere are three way1)FLOW GRAPH2)By using Edges and nodes ...

OOP

Performance Tests Between Multiple "multi-key" Dictionary Implementations

24 May 2011 by Aron Weiler

Performance tests between multiple "multi-key" Dictionary implementations

All-Topics

performance

Include a binary file in your source code as a byte array

3 Jul 2011 by Dr.Walt Fair, PE

You can also use the method in the following article to insert any sort of binary file in your project resources and retrieve it. Create a blank Jet database[^]

alpha testing process

16 Jul 2011 by Richard MacCutchan

See here[^]. Google is always the first port of call for general questions such as this.

programming

Data warehouse testing

11 Aug 2011 by Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Feeding some the terms from your "not quite yet a question" to google (data warehouse testing concepts) gave me a plethora of suitable hits. To save you the annoyance of having to google this yourself I'll present you with a few select...

23 Dec 2011 by uspatel

seeTesting_m...

23 Dec 2011 by srinivas vadepally

Hi Dolly,Software Testing Tutorials[]

unit testing questions

9 Jan 2012 by Ganesan Senthilvel

Unit testing is executed by the developers of the application. Unit testing is the first level of testing, followed by integration testing, system testing, stress testing, load testing, etc.NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages.

31 Jan 2012 by Rajesh Anuhya

hi, Testers are very first users of your software. They don't know how it is developed, but they very much know how it could be. They are very helpful to release a bug free application at final. Thanks--RA

Getting Started with Jasmine Tests in FubuMVC Applications

21 Feb 2012 by Artem Smirnov

Jasmine is one of the most popular BDD-style JavaScript testing frameworks.

how to test web application security with watir.

24 Aug 2012 by Manas Bhardwaj

I am not sure if many people are aware about this framework. I would rather do what they say on their support page.http://watir.com/support/[^]

Freeware tool to automate GUI Testing

13 Jan 2013 by Valery Possoz

Hello,See here, there are plenty to choose from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools[^]There is an interesting article on Codeproject that describes how to use the White framework to perform the tasks you want to do.White: An UI Automation Tool for Windows...

SQL-Server

GUI

Freeware tool to automate GUI Testing

13 Jan 2013 by Andreas Gieriet

To consider:Assuming you have separated the GUI from the business logic, I strongly suggest to test the businesslogic independent from the GUI. E.g. in .NET by means of MVVM and run tests based on the provided commands.GUI Test is then only for checking if the GUI properly connects to the...

SQL-Server

GUI

Does Service Virtualization’s "Shift Left" Burden Developers?

21 May 2013 by cynthia_dunlop

Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing & a curse for developers. Learn how to minimize the burden on development to achieve maximum acceleration of delivery cycles.

If I am using Firefox what kind of add-on are available which can find bugs in a website?

5 Jun 2013 by Prasad Khandekar

Hello,You can use Selenium IDE. This link also lists some other tools for finding security related issues and are worth considerations.Regards,

How to test a Windows Form Application

4 Jul 2013 by bbirajdar

You should start here What is software testing[^]

What types of Fault severity are in software testing?

10 Jul 2013 by Omer Zia

What types of Fault severity are in software testing?I've found these types on internet;Fatal F: This type of fault may cause system crash, db crash etc Major M: Field level violation, integration failure, some important functionality missing, or what make software functioning not...

Security and Vulenerability testing tool for .Net application

10 Jul 2013 by CdnSecurityEngineer

There are a number of tools out there it depends on how complex or non complex you want, it also depends on whether you want to pay for them or not. Simply ZAP - Proxy from OWASP is a good too to get started with. Burp Suite - Again a good tool but a license will cost you 300$. If you...

I want to install IE9 in my windows XP 32 bit how can i do this?Is it possible ?

25 Jul 2013 by Sushil Mate

Its not possible.Quote:WHY DOESNT IE9 WORK ON XP ?Because Internet Explorer 9 uses Direct2D for hardware acceleration which is unavailable in Windows XP. If you want to use a modern browser, use a modern operating system.why-doesnt-internet-explorer-9-work-on XP[^]

difference between CPPUNIT and NUNIT

28 Aug 2013 by Fredrik Bornander

NUnit[^] is a .NET unit test framework, if you're targeting the .NET framework then using this makes sense.CppUnit[^] is a C++ unit test framework, it's applicable for pretty much anything written in C++ (with the possible exception for managed C++).Hope this helps,Fredrik

what is whitebox testing

9 Sep 2013 by TheUltimateDebugger

Try to google onceWhite Box testing[^]

[Not a question] manual testing tools to do testing manually

11 Nov 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Not a question. And it's not clear how you can even pose a question about having some tool for manual testing. The work "manual", in simple English means "by hand". That said, that if testing is manual, the tool is you hands. However, this term is somewhat misleading, especially when it is...

Need Good .Net webbased Application for testing

6 Dec 2013 by Pradeep Gupta

Hi, I have found the one. It is open source It has a quality code with all the necessary validations and authentications. It is perfect website for performance testing. Please try http://www.nopcommerce.com/downloads.aspx[^]

performance

How to make project report

24 Dec 2013 by joginder-banger

This is [Not a Question] you can try in google.I have searching on Google some Link find check out this i Hope this is usefull for you. First is http://carmaux.cs.gsu.edu/~mweeks/project.html[^] and more is...

How to make project report

24 Dec 2013 by Peter Leow

You are reverse engineering. Not right. These are SDLC processes and documentation that should have been followed and done before the actual development work, especially 1,2, and 3. If you have done the project yourself, then should have no problem producing the report (especially if you have...

About Software Testing

1 Jan 2014 by Mohammad Zahid Hasan

Najim... You have asked for three different testing tools. These are vary in there functionality and working approach. I like to discuss the basic things of the three (3) tools with you. I think it will help you to choose a tool.First of all, LoadRunner is load testing tool that is developed...

broken link testing for intranet website.

2 Jan 2014 by Mohammad Zahid Hasan

Ali... You may use Xenu's Link Sleuth to detect the dead link of your site. It is free. So, you can start now.

Test Case Generation / Design tools needed

31 Jan 2014 by Mohammad Zahid Hasan

You may use Conformiq Tool Suite from www.verifysoft.com/en_conformiq_automatic_test_generation.html Or Test Case generator from http://testcasegenerator.codeplex.com for a test case creation.

Updating Test and Production Servers

21 May 2014 by Kevin Marois

I am working on a .Net 4.0 WPF application targeting SQL 2008R2. There are 2 WPF UI's - A desktop UI and Windows 8 Tablet UI. There is also a web app. The UI's and web app all connect to the backend via an MVC 4 Web API running in IIS on both mine and the client's servers.I use my server for...

production

Can I Do Sw-Testing After Doing Work In Mis Executive. I Have Done Be In Computer Field

16 Jul 2014 by Richard MacCutchan

How could a bunch of strangers on the internet possibly answer such a question? We have no idea about your skills or experience, or what openings are available in your area. Look at the jobs advertised by companies you would like to work for and try a few applications. Talk to your manager and...

How Do I Write A Unit Test For An Event Being Triggered?

27 Aug 2014 by Valery Possoz

Hello,You could do it using delegates in your unit tests.for example: [TestMethod] public void EventShouldBeRaised() { ClassToTest classToTest = new ClassToTest(); bool eventRaised = false; classToTest.EventRaised +=...

How to test WCF Service Client

3 Sep 2014 by Rajesh Kumar Chekuri

Hi,We have Service Wrapper project to aggregate all service(local) clients and we are consuming in MVC.My problem is I want to test my ServiceWrapper client methods.Is there any way to test client methods.

WCF