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Archive: February 2008

Functional Web Application Testing with Selenium IDE and RC

February 26, 2008   -   1 comment   -  

Introduction (How can testing make our lives easier) What is Selenium? Selenium IDE Trivial Example A Less Trivial Test Case (and some useful commands) Selenium RC Setup An example using Python The Future Additional Resources Reference Tutorials Testivus Introduction (How can testing make our lives easier) Testing is important, saves time, and makes our life

Testivus

February 26, 2008   -   1 comment   -  

Although we are striving towards integrating testing more closely into our development process we still have a long way to go. I thought this article does a good job of explaining testing philosophy in a fun way. http://www.developertesting.com/archives/month200705/20070502-000424.html To summarize: All code needs to be tested. Ugly tests are better then no tests. Write tests

SQL Server Gal and Virtual Labs Guy

February 22, 2008   -   0 comments   -  

I’m in shock, slightly amused, and mostly disgusted… they should hire bryan borst to come up with names for these action figures, at least they’d have some personality.

Nu Analytics

February 11, 2008   -   0 comments   -  

Using Javascript/Ajax we can build significantly better UI’s and create a much better user experience. Many companies still can’t effectively translate a better user experience into value ($$$). The biggest reason for this is that the statistics captured and reported by many are still page views. Enter the Web 2.0 Anaytics offerings: French company Alenty