Testability?...This term can have relation to any software artifact: code, documentation, architecture, design, interface, structure, product and so on. In fact, the testability metric can b… Read More

I’m follower of building automated testing by analogy with s/w development in most of practices. Some practices are being grown initially from testing or properly improved in testing a… Read More

Hey friends,it looks like my time on blogging decreases day by day. I have less and less time to think up and then write something novice and interesting on test automation. Is it writer's b… Read More

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I think if one claims that they have test automation, I mean full-fledged test automation, it must imply not only automated tests per say but it should include process automation. Automated… Read More

Post-mortem, yearly reports, metrics, KPIs, predictive analysis, graphs, %%%%. Again big reporting for big managers!My 5 cents which hopefully could help to run off all that nightmare invent… Read More

The slides from meetup "Why Test automation guys should have hacker mindset?!" are now available for everyone: Read More

Hey the test automation world!The blog At4QA is recognized as the best one in this year by Automated Testing Institute.I’m proud and excited to be a part of this honor and being standi… Read More

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Just imagine you are going to sell your test automation project to Project/Test/QA management in a way as sales managers/engineers present, propose and account a solution. Under solution we… Read More

I'm running a short research devoted to synthesize various techniques, framework and practices in automated testing including Unit testing. Why am I doing that? Don't know, and I'm not going… Read More

I don't use "Advanced Unit Test" but it looks pretty and beateful solution.First, read a view of Unit testing patterns. I found it interestinghttp://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/autp5… Read More

The starting point to get confidence over JavaScript OO (object-oriented approach) full support take a look at this post (http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk/archive/2006/05/object-oriented-javasc… Read More

What this guy can give you? Answer: the class allowing to generate a custom (predefined by pattern or type) string. The code is fully compatible with TestComplete - just add it as library t… Read More

This simple VBS script can be used to health monitor your infrastracture. Each monitored machine should have turn on RPC service.The provided code should be saved as .vbs, e.g. HostsHealthMo… Read More

TestComplete has lots of built-in features to operate with properties and methods of tested object. As was mentioned in a previous section, all wrappers over controls of AUT are implemente… Read More

I found tasty presentation on JS (Java Script) code test automation (Unit) in LinkedIn. Well, as fan of JS, cant's skip it to be shared. Enjoy this overview with frameworks comparision and v… Read More

Why We use “FAIL” for many reasons? Really why we are so restricted by test automation tools such as Mercury QTP and AutomatedQA TestComplete and other popular ones give us ju… Read More

Guys did their best to highlight clearly in detail the approach and organization of framework over Selenium IDE. Actually I worked with 3 frameworks relying on XML. The difference is only th… Read More

For those who AJAXing and work closely with JS this intercahnge format is essential. For those who things it's tricky - check out first the origianl site devoted to JSON - json.org and then… Read More

If you are working within .Net and other MS's platforms, you probably should be happy having Visual Studio Team System as part of Visual Studio IDE. This is getting more interesting if your… Read More

Google's guys that their Testing (take a look into the link to see the purpose) and Mocking (take a look into the link to see the purpose) frameworks can provide ligtweight and rich solution… Read More

The world changes continously, just so software code should pass through changes too. Basically lifecycle is following:Prototype or simple modelDesign as skeletonDesign refactoringSome stuff… Read More

Hey guys,the voting of this poll http://at4qa.blogspot.com/2010/05/poll-best-test-automation-ide.html is closed. Thank you all who participated and responded!!!Shortly - facts: there were… Read More

This post is just short manual or reminder on generic system-available objects in Windows environments.10 So let's go and begin for instantination. In order to unify and isolate external obj… Read More

Hey test automation gurus and those who just in the beginning of this challengeable road!After reading http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2010/04/googles-innovation-factory-and-how.html I&rsq&hell…Read More

Data migration/transformation projects are actual in s/w industry especially because systems mature, systems integration, needs in transforming data from legacy systems, for data improvement… Read More

Preface: to be on the same page, it's recommended to review the following WP articles:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distributionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_errorshttp://en.w… Read More

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My article is get published in June'11 issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine! That is cool news - check that out: http://www.automatedtestinginstitute.com/home/index.php?option=com_co… Read More

Hey there, what's up with API nowadays?They are hot topics wherever you go. No API = no product for now. Well, Soap UI is on a wave of this trendy tech flop. Why? Let's see:Easy to get into… Read More

I really amazed by this great trend which really flips and flops giant software enterprises. This is why they hurry to purchase small start ups and little companies with one but awesome prod… Read More