Effective UI Testing with FlexMonkey – An Interview with Stu Stern

Published January 25th, 2010 Under Flex, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Gorilla Logic CEO Stuart Stern talks to DZone about FlexMonkey, an Adobe AIR application used for testing Flex- and AIR-based applications. FlexMonkey also generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that you can easily include within a continuous integration environment.

Complete transcript of the interview

Hacking Selenium

Published January 21st, 2010 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

In this presentation, Jason Huggins discusses why Selenium exists, Selenium as a functional testing tool, problems with using Selenium, the history of Selenium, JWebUnit, DriftWood, JsUnit, Fit, Selenium core, Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control, Selenium Grid, issues encountered doing functional testing in the browser, and Selenium hacks to work around these issues.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/huggins-hacking-selenium

Achieving Web Test Automation with a Mixed-Skill

Published January 20th, 2010 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Test automation is commonly perceived as a technical job, which should be done by technical people. In reality however, a considerable amount of non-technical activities contribute to the creation and maintenance of an automated test suite. Whilst test engineers are arguably competent at non-technical testing tasks, they may not be as competent or even as motivated as people who come from a manual testing background. Furthermore, in the context of most systems, especially web-based systems, automated testing would also benefit from people with primary skills outside of testing. These include developers, information architects, business analysts, customers and so on.This talk explores ways of harnessing the experience and skills of people with different backgrounds and channeling them towards the effective test automation of web-based systems.

Javascript Stories

Published January 6th, 2010 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Javascript Stories: The Animal, Mineral or Vegetable guide to testing javascript in web applications. Rob Holland describes his talk as follows: The talk will cover how to use capybara with cucumber to easily write and run stories including javascript functionality. The talk should be useful to people who don’t currently test their javascript, or those who are already doing so with another framework.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/javascript-stories

Crawljax – A Tool for Automating Web Application Testing

Published December 22nd, 2009 Under AJAX, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Crawljax is a tool for crawling any AJAX/GWT application. It uses WebDriver to navigate through the different states of a web application. With plugins and invariants Crawljax can be used to perform various automated tests. For example: security testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, cross-browser testing…

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