QA & Testing

If you are testing network traffic you are probably familiar with Fiddler. Fiddler is a nice, easy to use tool for monitoring network traffi...

A lot of discussion goes into browser statistics. Whenever a company is creating a new web application they need to decide which browsers w...

I was recently pointed to a nice list of Selenium/WebDriver blogs. If you are looking for more information about Selenium/WebDriver you shou...

Every once in a while someone is looking for a file of a specific size. Occasionally, it must be real data. If you are transmitting the file...

Recently I was asked if all the different implementations of WebDriver allow for screen captures. I had a look at the source code and see th...

I'm a hacker. Not the breaking into systems and doing damage hacker. To me a hacker is someone who learns things by trial and error. I w...

What is a unit test? Wikipedia describes unit testing as testing individual units of code in isolation. If the code has external dependenc...

One of the things I see people getting into automation doing is selecting what to automate or how to test an application based on what the a...

From time to time I see people asking questions about how to use an automation tool to do something the tool was never meant to do. For exam...

After years of software testing I have found one constant... there is never enough time to test everything. So how do I pick what I'm ...

Floating point numbers can be a great source of error. When we think about pure mathematics it includes the concept of infinity. For example...

I was just reviewing some documentation for my new job and came across the term soak test . I had never heard the term before and tried to i...

I've seen a few people post questions about using the Selenium waitForCondition method. If you read the documentation for the waitForC...

My general approach when testing a legacy system is to use the customer data in the system for testing. I'll often find the application ...

What makes a good defect report? Let's look at the flip side. A bad defect report is a defect report with insufficient information. If...

I'm not talking the state of your desktop. Whether you have pizza boxes, open bags of chips and a bowl of jelly beans is another topic a...

In a previous entry I blogged about how to reduce code duplication. My solution is using libraries. Let's say I have a web applicatio...

Are you doing manual testing and want to break into automated testing? Are you doing something completely different and want to get a job in...

Someone on LinkedIn was asking about becoming an ethical hacker. Back before I got into computers I understood the term hacker to mean som...

I have been recently reading xUnit Test Patterns by Gerard Meszaros. Excellent book with a lot of things I learned the hard way. I also foun...