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 ..