July 3, 2011December 27, 2022Automation Giving tests a second chance If you’ve ever maintained a large suite of GUI automated tests, then you’re probably familiar with this scenario: You run your suite […]
March 18, 2011December 27, 2022Automation, Tools A website appears before you! Adventures of a clicky thing I’d had this idea in my head for a while to create an automated script that would take any web application and […]
January 19, 2011December 27, 2022Automation Attaching Gallio test reports to TeamCity using MSBuild This is just one of those things that took a while to figure out, and there wasn’t much information about it on […]
December 7, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Tools Go faster! Linking data generation to hotkeys Sometimes testing is like pouring a bucket of confetti on a snow leopard. Have you ever tried pouring a bucket of confetti […]
November 23, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Test cases, Tools Automating in Gherkin syntax with Specflow I’m quite a fan of Gherkin’s Given-When-Then syntax for test cases, so I was pleased to discover Specflow. Specflow is a .NET […]
October 18, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Test cases, Test Management, Tools Make your tests agile too: wiki This is a story about my experience in using a wiki to manage test cases. Over the past few years, I have […]
September 6, 2010December 27, 2022Automation The trouble with GUI automation It’s difficult I think people have a tendency to greatly underestimate the difficulty of writing a good GUI-automation suite. It’s not as simple […]
September 5, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing Testers and developers – blurring the line I’m a tester who used to be a developer. I find my developer skills to be very useful in my job as […]
August 13, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Tools Testing with emails Testing a product like Campaign Monitor means dealing with a lot of emails as test data. Here are some things I’ve learned […]
July 30, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Performance testing Off the beaten track You learn a lot more when things don’t quite go to plan, than when everything goes smoothly. So here’s a story I […]