Testing Ramblings #5

Set top boxes automation   -  http://stb-tester.com/

Dagger  - Light weight Robust web UI framework with web driver and Testng - https://github.com/NetEase/Dagger

Fluent Pageobject another page objects framework https://github.com/djangofan/FluentPageObject

Another page object gem   Cheezy - https://github.com/cheezy/page-object

Cucumber-Jvm and jenkins nice reporting  - https://github.com/masterthought/jenkins-cucumber-jvm-reports-plugin-java

Another Mobile automation framework for cross platform   - https://github.com/appium/appium

TraceGL – A new flow diagram for the js applications to know code flow  https://trace.gl/index.html

Testing Ramblings #4

Java's Mockit similarly in php its called Phake  https://github.com/mlively/Phake

Automate your phone for NFC Tags  - http://lifehacker.com/how-to-automate-your-phone-for-every-room-in-the-house-473409963

Facebook R&D project  - https://github.com/facebook/buck

Gradle packaging tool   -  https://github.com/gradle/gradle

Compile C# code online  - https://compilify.net/

View your website in different screen resolution   - https://github.com/juliangruber/review

Love this Unicorn when tests passes across the screen   - https://github.com/daytonn/unicorn-formatter

Cucumber – 1.3.1 released   - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/

Testing Ramblings #3

PHP pageobject saunter.php   -  https://github.com/Element-34/saunter.php

Selenium webinar -  http://seleniumsimplified.com/2013/02/28/second-selenium-webdriver-webinar-released-to-youtube/

Android and cucumber    -   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-HudsS0c7Q

Debugging web driver tests   - http://blog.spritecloud.com/2013/04/easy-debugging-of-your-test-automation-watir-webdriver-scripts/

Meteor apps end to end testing  - http://blog.xolv.io/2013/04/end-to-end-testing-for-web-apps-meteor.html

Selenium on Android using choice of browsers   - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meh1E2gNn8U#!

Testing Ramblings #2

Webdriver:

Automatic email reports  - http://assertselenium.com/2012/11/13/emailable-reports-for-selenium-scripts/

Selenium for Objective-c  -  https://github.com/penguinho/selenium-objective-c

Scala and Webdriver   - http://mkaz.com/solog/functional-testing-with-selenium-webdriver-and-scala

Limitations on mobile cross browser performance testing   - http://wrla.ch/blog/2013/03/eideticker-limitations-in-cross-browser-performance-testing/

Selenium   - http://arrgyle.com/blog/selenium-users-anonymous/

Misc:

Six mistakes to avoid in testing  - http://blog.utest.com/6-testing-mistakes-to-avoid-like-the-plague/2013/02/

Node.js and .NET in one process  - https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge

Chronos UI  - http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos

Etsy  -   https://github.com/etsy/feature

Testing Ramblings #1

After long... long... time i decided to update my blog.. from now onwards i will be publishing my online findings inspired from the seleniumhq.wordpress.com, Decided to post my ramblings/finding here on my blog.  Hope this helps someone 

BDD:

Another  Alternate to Cucumber -   http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/21494223079/turnip-a-tasty-cucumber-alternative

StoryQ alternative to specflow  - http://storyq.codeplex.com/

IOS testing framework - https://github.com/playup/zucchini

jenkins and cucumber jvm plugin for reports -  https://github.com/masterthought/jenkins-cucumber-jvm-reports-plugin-java

Sample cucumber-JVM project  - https://github.com/GallifreyanCode/cucumber-jvm-examples

Specflow on Ubuntu   - http://blog.perbrage.com/2012/04/19/using-mighty-moose-with-specflownunit-on-mono-net4-ubuntu/

Performance Testing:

Jmeter alternative gatlling  - https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/First-Steps-with-Gatling

BigBench - http penetration tool  - http://southdesign.github.com/bigbench/#install

Performance timing tool   - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21462

Performance Testing slides/videos    - http://scott-barber.blogspot.se/p/slides-multi-media.html

Which tool to select - http://alexanderpodelko.com/blog/2012/05/10/load-testing-what-tool-to-chose/
amazon ec2 for jmeter - https://github.com/oliverlloyd/jmeter-ec2
jmeter analysis maven plugin  - https://github.com/afranken/jmeter-analysis-maven-plugin

Mobile Testing:

Dynamically add selenium support to android   - https://gist.github.com/hugs/2493103

Automation Misc : 

UI Automation Test runner  -   http://bendyworks.com/geekville/lab_projects/2012/4/introducing-bwoken

Front end unit testing with JS  -  http://dannycroft.co.uk/front-end-unit-testing-with-javascript/

A light weight Webdriver for node.js     https://github.com/sebv/node-wd-sync

Another tool   - caphub  -  https://github.com/railsware/caphub

Microsoft Test Team tool Set for helping Testing process

Microsoft Testers has created some tool set for Testing community which helps in the testing process.

1 Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4

2. Spec Explorer

3. Windows CE Testing Tools

4. Exchange Load Generator - 64-bit

5. Web Stress Tools

6. Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Testing (PICT) Tool

And many more click here

Load testing from different parts of World..

Have you ever thought of doing load testing from different parts of world to see how web pages are responding from different parts of the world, then you should try this tool from AOL

Load test

Want to view how it works

Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest from Dave Artz on Vimeo.

1. It gives very clear detail of statistics when it comes to component level

2. Detailed Waterfall, Optimization check list, and Screen shot of web page tested.

3. Repeat view helps to execute the same load test without cache.

4. And it gives clear report of things which needs to be changed.

Quality center in IE8

If you are having a problem of accessing quality center in IE8. Follow the below steps by opening the Internet Explorer 32 bit version

1. Navigate to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab
2. Scroll down to security section of Advanced tab
3. Deselect "Enable memory protection to help mitigate online attacks"
4. Restart the browser and navigate to Quality center
5. Install the activex .. you will straight away see the quality center opened without any problem

Update:

Note: 1. For doing above steps you need to Open Internet explorer 32 bit version with administration (Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer and right click on Internet Explorer and run as administrator)

Update2:

After following above steps if you are still getting OTACLIENT.dll not download Error then you need to install "HP Quality Center Connectivity" plugin from Quality center addins page

Initial glimpses of Google Chromium OS

Just been playing with the Virtual box installer of Google Chrome OS (download).

1. If you get "unable to connect to network" problem. try using user name :chronos and no password

2. If still the problem persists then Turn off the Ethernet and Turn it back on. There you go it should straight way start recognizing your network and you can play around with Chrome OS


Understandingly many crashes while launching these dashboard applications.

Wonder about these free Software testing tools

I know most of the software testers are aware of Selenium, Fitneese, Test link and other Open QA tools. But there are many other free tools which require attention as well like
a. CTE -XL
b. ZETA Test
c. Unified Test pro
d. qa manager
e. Generatedata.com
f. Jkool profiler
g. The Grinder
h. Xqual Studio
i. Testopia
and many more..

Google Spreadsheet .... Does not work in IE8

Yes.. Intrestingly Google Spreadsheet does not work in IE8. Is this a business strategy from Google by forcing the user to use Non Microsoft browser :) . Javascript error blocks the user to use Google spreadsheet in IE8

Luckily it works fine in Firefox ..

Firefox Add-ons for Software testing

Just wanted to share the firefox add-ons which are really helpful for software testing

1. Firebug - With this you can edit the CSS, HTML, Javascript and inspect for the elements

2. YSlow - This is the integrated plugin within Firebug, which really helps for checking the performance of the individual components such as Javascript, image download etc

3. W3C Page Validator - This Add-on helps to validate the webpages for w3c compliance or not.

4. IE Tab for firefox - This little add-on opens IE tab within the firefox window, which is really helpful while doing some layout testing. But this renders differently compared to IE

5. Firesizer - This Add-on helps the tester to test the applications in different sized windows.

6. Web Developer tool bar - This add-on as important as Firebug. This toolbar is equivalent of IE tool bar in IE. This tool bar does everthing that is required for validating the webpages (css, HTML, XHTML, Acessibility, Meta data information and many more)

7. LinkChecker - When a page is having many links and to check for broken links on the webpage this add-on is really helpful

8. Flash Switcher -If you are testing the flash based application with different versions of the flash plugin on your browser, so this is the right tool for performing the desired task.

9. Flash Block - Again to test fall back page when flash plugin not installed in the browser, this is the good add-on

10. SQL injection - This addons helps tester to identify the sql injection vulnerabilities

11. HTTPFOX - This is the good add-on to know and dig into the request/response of the webpage.

12. HACK BAR -this is the good add-on for finding the SQL vulnerables, XSS vulnerabilities and DOS attacks.

13. Add N Edit cookies - This add-on is really useful if you some want to test the webpage after tampering the cookie,.

14. Tamper Data - This add-on is helpful to tamper the header of the Request/response data.

15. Measureit This is the great utility when you are testing the application design consistancy.

Statistics time !!!!

Know the Market share on the browsers, Operating system, Screen Resolution, search engines from Market share website


Statistics

This will help setting up the Browser matrix for any product development.

Quality center - Stand alone Explorer add in

Accessing Mercury Quality center through the IE browser gives an Activex download error now and then. For that purpose.. good alternative is use the Standalone Explorer addin for Quality center

Install this explorer addin and follow the instructions on the website
http://updates.merc-int.com/qualitycenter/qc90/others/qcexplorer/index.html

Google mail - Error

Just wondering google has also failed to give the proper mail box. See below.



No doubt... Google needs good software test engineer :-)

Web CEO

It's been a while i have posted here... all these because of the Agile methodology.. :-)

Alright... after coming from the clouds of agile testing, i have found a great utility for the testers called WEB CEO.

It includes all the following features
1. SEO Testing
2. Link popularity
3. Traffic analysis
4. Reports generation.

more importantly it is an Freeware.

web CEO can be downloaded from

Visual studio Team suite 2008

Just came across the visual studio team suite 2008 edition. I have installed this. this is a becoming very handy webtesting tool for the testers as well. It is having my cool features integrated into single suite

Supports different test types such as

a. Unit test: Use a unit test to create a programmatic test in C++, Visual C# or
Visual Basic that exercises source code.

b. Web Test: Web tests consist of an ordered series of HTTP requests that you
record in a browser session using Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can have
the test report specific details about the pages or sites it requests, such
as whether a particular page contains a specified string.

c. Load Test: You use a load test to encapsulate non-manual tests, such as
unit, Web, and generic tests, and then run them simultaneously by using
virtual users. Running these tests under load generates test results,
including performance and other counters, in tables and in graphs.

d. Generic testA generic test is an existing program wrapped to function as a
test in Visual Studio.

e. Manual test: The manual test type is used when the test tasks are to be
completed by a test engineer as opposed to an automated script.

And also VS TFS supports Profiling/code coverage/ Load testing/ data driven test. It is having inbuilt bug tracking system/Project management system everything in one tool

Click here to download


i am loving'it :-)

Screen Capture utilties

Many users are trying to grab the screen capture utilities. This post belongs to them

For freeware and shareware screen capture utilities follow below link

http://www.etrusoft.com/screen-capture-software-reviews/

Another awesome add in for firefox users - Yslow

Yslow for firebug is a great utility for analyzing the web pages and based on some set of rules


To download
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

One URL covers many tools

Just found one URL which can cover more than 100 tools

Here we go....

http://tester.jonasjohn.de/