The test data challenge
Getting it, masking it and re-using it. How do you go about obtaining data for testing. There are only so many ways… Full restore or copy of production Extract data subsets via SQL or via a tool Copy records Generate …
Getting it, masking it and re-using it. How do you go about obtaining data for testing. There are only so many ways… Full restore or copy of production Extract data subsets via SQL or via a tool Copy records Generate …
Output should be easy to understand and interpret. A colleague of mine is not long back from a weekend in Vegas with some friends. He played the tables over the weekend and struck lucky coming home with winnings that certainly …
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Output should be easy to understand and interpret. QA need to make the decision as to whether something has passed or failed quickly and act accordingly. To allow this to happen it is important that the automation being used creates …
10 factors for a successful regression test. #10. Output Analysis Read more »
Meet the outdoor gear specialists and park rangers of test automation I was lucky enough recently to spend a little time in Utah checking out various national parks and participating in some excellent hikes. Some of these were gentle walks …
The main reason automation efforts fail into disuse is the lack of people, and time, to correctly re-align the automation created. With QA personnel changes, or in fast-paced development environments, it is essential that automation can be manipulated without any …
10 factors for a successful regression test. #9 Full UI regression Read more »
Being able to create the automation quickly increases the efficiency. One area of testing that lends itself to automation is regression. Automation allows repeatability, and re-use, over the more mundane tasks required. An automation test can be run hundreds of …
10 factors for a successful regression test. #7 Automation Read more »