We are organising a Rapid Software Testing course with James Bach in Cambridge, UK. Developed and taught by James Bach, this 3-day, hands-on class on March 7 – 9th 2012 in Cambridge introduces you to rapid software testing, a complete testing methodology designed for a world of barely sufficient resources, information, and time. Based on [...]
Another STC Meetup is born. Kevin Kapell got in touch with us a few weeks ago about wanting to do an STC Meetup. He had already started a local Rochester NY community with regular meetups, but really wanted more testers to come along. Hopefully by partnering up we can get a nice and more active [...]
So the first STC Meetup in Cambridge (UK) happened last week and it is only now that I’ve had a chance to sit down and write about it. It didn’t take the attendees long to realise that the location and name of the venue was very well suited to our profession. The location wasn’t very [...]
Last night saw a small gathering of Software Testers (and one Project Manager!) gathering in the historic City of Winchester, Hampshire to talk all things Testing. With a severe lack of planning (my fault) we still managed to bring together about 10 people. There was no real agenda, but we mingled for a short time [...]
Up to now I’ve only written here about using Selenium with the handy Firefox add-on, which provides the ability to just record-and-play. There are limitations to just using the Selenium IDE, and only a few of these are addressed by using plugins. There’s likely to become a time where you just need to graduate from [...]
We started the Software Testing Club Meetups earlier this year. The mission has been to get testers to meet face to face in an informal way. So far they have or are going to happen in Nottingham, Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Cambridge and Liverpool. These are all based in the UK. But now we have our [...]
An introduction to extending the features of Selenium IDE via plugins Selenium IDE is great for basic record-and-playback within Firefox, however it certainly has some limitations. Back in December 2009, Adam Goucher started to write a plugin API for Selenium IDE. I believe Adam’s main reason for doing this was to allow the features of [...]
Recently, I ventured out from the humdrum of tester life and discovered a group of testers holding a “meetup” in Nottingham. Later on I travelled to London and met even more software testers who were excited about their craft and enthusiastic about meeting other testers. These events inspired me to organise a meeting for local [...]
Identifying all of the requirements for any system is almost impossible, however there are certain requirements that almost every system needs. All too often, even given their importance, these requirements are overlooked. As with any requirement, implementing too late increases development costs. To help with this, here is a list of 7 Requirements you should [...]
Unlike other tools used for testing web applications, Selenium controls a real browser. This allows Selenium to interact with web applications in much the same way that a user does — particularly useful when dealing with dynamic sites using techniques to load content without causing a new page to load. Despite this, I often see [...]
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