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Web UI Testing with Selenium, Pt. 3
Last two posts explained the process required to get Selenium up and running, and to execute tests on one or more machines in parallel. The major drawback with the explained methods however were that each machine needed to be configured individually, which required either physical access to the machine, or a remote desktop session. Once … Continue reading
Web UI Testing with Selenium, Pt. 2
Last post dealt with the basics of getting up and running with web UI testing using Selenium Python WebDriver API. This post will deal with using Selenium Server to receive test commands, and writing a multi-threaded controller to run many tests in parallel, and thus simulate a load on a server. Installation In addition to … Continue reading
Getting Started with Web UI Testing Using Selenium, Pt. 1
The last few days I’ve been working with implementing testing a web application using Selenium. The tests I wrote are relatively simple; what made them complex is the fact that I am tasked with load testing an application through UI testing using a real browser instance (for now limited to Firefox and Chrome, though Selenium … Continue reading
Why do we #DataModel at all?
People in the Database world take Normalization and Data Modeling as something that should be done without question. I compare it to best practices like versioning software. No one expects that anyone would create software without version control anymore.But more often recently I do get questioned and challenged on why we need to normalize and model … Continue reading
#Agile Data Modeling – still a ways to go
I have wanted to write a Blog entry on Agile Data Modelling for a while now. It combines the two prime areas of interest for myself as I really started as a DBA/Data Architect and then moved on towards Project Management and Agile Project Management. But truly, Data Modelling has been and will always be … Continue reading
#Agile Code Reviews
I must admit I was never totally sold on Pair Programming from the start. But I have started to come around and I was looking forward to discussing Pair Programming versus Code Reviews with a fellow co-worker who had done a lot of Pair Programming at his former employer. In the project we are both … Continue reading
HTML5 and CSS issues
I’ve been playing around with WordPress and customizing some themes for it recently. Part of this required testing it out in IE8. One of the additions in HTML5 are semantic tags such as article, section, nav, and more. They allow you to do cleaner page design layouts as illustrated below and give more tips to SEO algorithms. HTML4 … Continue reading
Java is Dead? Not by a long shot…
As a developer, I often hear of Java referred to as ‘The Next Cobol’. If I had a nickel for every time I read an article entitled ‘Java is Dead’, I’d be retired. In fact, searching for articles that contain the exact words “Java is Dead” returns 63,100 results. All this noise could make a … Continue reading
SDEC 2011 – A conference for practitioners by practitioners
Re-posted from http://bornagainagilist.wordpress.com
Join the Anti If Campaign
Please join the Anti If Campaign. http://www.antiifcampaign.com/ Please help eradicate nested ‘if-then-else’ structures. Oh sure it was fun at the start to see just how far the indenting could go, but now it is just making the the compilers cry. Friends don’t let friends code Ifs. Re-posted from http://bornagainagilist.wordpress.com
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