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Summary Requirements Coverage In Mercury Quality Center

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:18:23 -0500

This post is aimed at a specific group of us that need to show full test to requirements coverage in Mercury Quality Center or Test Director.

I've always been annoyed that Test Director and now Quality Center will not let you designate a requirement that is just a category for holding real requirements as something that did not need to be covered by a test. This always led to questions by management and processs auditors as to why we didn't have 100% coverage when they looked at our coverage graphs, even though we had all the real requirements covered. If you have a complicated tree, those requirement holders can eventually add up to a high percentage showing as "Not Covered", and it can be difficult to prove quickly that all uncovered requirements are just categories.

SAMIE + HTTP::Recorder - Creating SAMIE scripts with HTTP::Recorder module on fly.

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:58:35 -0500

How would you like it if this happened? Have HTTP::Recorder to create scripts on fly to work with SAMIE module. Personally, i think it would be great to have such recording functionality. But as we know, HTTP::Recorder doesn't support SSL or javascript.... would that effects your tests? really?... Think again...

One way of avoiding/bypassing SSL restriction i could think of is to simply record the scripts with SSL disabled, and then manually just go in and change http to https....

Mercury NYC Local User Group

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:40:44 -0500

On Tuesday I attended Mercury NYC Local User Group. There were two presentations from Mercury – product update and business process testing. Most people were interested in functional testing.

Some things that were interesting for me:
- Mercury plans integration with the new VisualStudio, no details
- New TestDirector (for Quality Center 8.2) is re-written to J2EE, multiplatform now
- Quality Center 8.2 includes Actuate reports

TextTest: text-based functional testing

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:26:50 -0600

TextTest is an application-independent tool for text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode binary in lots of different ways, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behaviour of that application.

Atlassian FatCow: Web test cases inside Confluence

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:03:32 -0600

FatCow is a set of macros for use with Confluence. FatCow allows the user to simply write web testcases within a Confluence page. Tests are defined in a table and allow the user to perform functions like navigate to a url, assert values on a page, fill-in and submit forms and click links on a page. Once the tests are run FatCow produces an aggregated report of the test results.

Latka: HTTP requests testing tool

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:04:39 -0600

Latka is a functional (end-to-end) testing tool. It is implemented in Java, and uses an XML syntax to define a series of HTTP (or HTTPS) requests and a set of validations used to verify that the request was processed correctly.

Pounder: testing Java GUIs

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:45:21 -0600

Pounder is a utility for automating Java GUI tests. It allows developers to dynamically load GUIs, record scripts, and then use those scripts in a test harness. Pounder differentiates itself from other utilities by allowing you to examine the results of a test run in source, while maintaining a separate GUI script that can be re-recorded if necessary.

Functional and Browser Compatibility Testing Framework - Selenium

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:37:44 -0500

From the home page: "Selenium is a testing tool for browser-based testing of web applications. It can be used both for functional and compatability testing. Selenium tests run directly in supported browsers, just as real users do."Driven by test-definition tables, similarly to FIT/FitNesse, it provides simple keyword driven interactions with the web-application front-end.Se

Selenium - an exciting advance in open source functional testing frameworks...

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:29:40 -0500

[textile]From "the selenium home page":http://selenium.thoughtworks.com/index.html

Selenium is a testing tool for browser-based testing of web applications. It can be used both for functional and compatability testing. Selenium tests run directly in supported browsers, just as real users do."

"Bret Pettichord's post, announcing Selenium":http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2004_10.html#000224 hints at other new and exciting developments from "ThoughtWorks":http://www.thoughtworks.com in the near future. (Thanks for the heads-up Bret!)

Rational Functional Tester: automated functional/regression testing tool

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:26:27 -0500

An advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing Java, VS.NET and Web-based applications. Provides novice testers with automated capabilities for activities such as data-driven testing. Advanced testers have a choice of scripting language and industrial-strength editor (Java in Eclipse or Visual Basic .NET in Visual Studio .NET) for test authoring and customization.

Badboy: IE capture/replay testing tool

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:26:48 -0500

Badboy is a capture/replay testing tool capable of dealing with complex dynamic applications. It embeds Microsoft's Internet Explorer and monitors and controls its actions to provide you with a superior, turbo charged browser for testing and development work.

XEUS: XML for easy UI scripting

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:14:53 -0500

XEUS is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) automation test tool. Most GUI automation tools are very cumbersome to use, only work for 1 specific programming language, and require costly programmers to write the test scripts. They also necessitate lots of training just to learn how to use the automation tool effectively, and in many cases involve learning a whole new programming language.X

SAMIE: IE browser automated framework

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:25:33 -0500

S.A.M. for I.E. is a Perl module (SAM.pm) that allows a user to automate Internet Explorer. This free tool is designed for quality assurance engineers that need to run automated tests for their browser applications (Windows only).

WebTester: automated testing and validation for web-based applications

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:19:46 -0500

Webtester is a collection of java applications that can be used to record and playback test cases for either static HTML or dynamic web applications. It is intended to provide a way of performing end-to-end regression testing for existing websites.