Eric Pugh got notified today that he’s been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search engine testing entail? Great search implementation isn’t just about installing Solr and making it run a millisecond faster. It’s about setting up the conditions to ensure [...]
My article on the role of Continuous Integration as helping be the bridge between the Developer and Automated Test Writer who continually engage in a Tug of War was published in the September issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine! It’s been a couple of years since I wrote an article for a magazine, and this [...]
Karen N. Johnson gave the keynote after lunch on the topic of Story Telling. I love these kind of topics that at first don’t seem very related to our field, but then end up being relevant. I like to say that software development is like writing poetry. We as software developers create something out of [...]
I don’t normally post about another blog article, but Agile-Friendly Test Automation Tools/Frameworks by Elisabeth Hendrickson is spot on about the challenges of Test Automation in an Agile world and well worth reading. A couple year’s ago I worked on a LIMS system, and we had extensive regression tests written using Selenium. We used the [...]
During FOSE, I was surprised to find that FedBizOpps had completely changed its format, look, feel, and usability. I found out about this because I had bookmarked several pages to look at responding to potential RFPs, and none of them worked. So, instantly, I had a predisposition against the new FedBizOpps, even though I consistently [...]
Yesterday Yonik committed my first contribution to Solr. It was a simple simplification of the test code infrastruture. Some of the tests depend on Java System properties, however if you are not running the tests from Ant, you don’t have them… For example, running them from Eclipse. The advice was to pass them in using [...]
A colleague pinged my on how to do a file upload from a Selenium script. My smart ass reply was “Did you look at the file_upload tag?”. And then I realized that File Upload is one of those things that the JavaScript security model in browsers makes very difficult. You have to explicitly select a [...]
Notes from the Code Metric’s session: What kind of code metrics do you collect? Complexity Coverage Dependencies Documentation Code Style # of unit tests, line of code Code Duplicates Volatility Velocity Great first metric is volatility or churn: the number of commits in a specific area contracted to complexity. Volatility comes from version control data, [...]