Evil TesterA different view of software testing
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Looking through the archive of blog posts, I can see that I mentioned various tools for Xpath construction, but none for CSS selectors in Selenium. Let’s change that now… Firefinder helps you test your css selectors and XPath statements before committing them to Selenium code.
I use XPather to help me write my automated tests, and other people seem to like XPath Checker. But today I needed something a little harder hitting and something which didn’t sit in the browser to help me write some batch processing xml tests. I found SketchPath, a fantastic free .net written tool.
I recently had the good fortune at work to have tested an Amazon cloud hosted application. And this led to the test team having to investigate alternative performance test tools. We settled on BrowserMob and we have loved it.
I wish BrowserMob had an affiliate program, then I might get some cash if I send you off to their site. But they don’t, and I’m only writing this because I think they have a great tool and want to draw your attention to it.
You know the annoying situation when you walk down the street minding your own business when suddenly someone stops you and says “Hey You. Are you a tester?” Well, in this informative public service broadcast I present the verbal and non-verbal techniques you need to know, to cope.
On this, barely my third day of self-publishing an electronic ebook. I somehow feel qualified to pass on a few tips to anyone thinking of going down that road.
I quickly learned that I should not use lulu.com to build a wee self-contained community, where you can keep your beta customers up to date with future releases, because lulu.com doesn’t tell you anything about the people that bought your book (or if it does, I could not find the option).
I have just released a beta version of my ‘Automated Web Testing with Selenium & Java’ tutorial over on my ‘other’ site.
At the moment “Selenium Simplified” has 210, A4 formatted, pages presented as a pdf ebook.
I haven’t quite finished it yet, but it seems ‘good enough’ to get someone started on their journey to test automation splendidness.
Question: With two Agile Testing books out now, which one should you read?
Answer: Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.
No contest.
The following contains a true life summary of some recent testing to illustrate the use of Fiddler and some test thinking in action.
I know I have mentioned Fiddler 2 before and how I could not test web sites without it (OK, so I could but I’d use something like BurpSuite instead), but I like Fiddler because of its ease of use and flexibility, as I will explain…
I mentioned that Fiddler forms an essential part of my web testing toolkit, and recently I had a hankering for knowledge of Security Testing. Somehow I found my way to a Fiddler plugin called Watcher from Casaba Security. This lets me slowly learn about security testing in the course of my normal testing.
Simple to use: enable Watcher using the new [Security Auditor] tab that appears after installing watcher, and test normally, then check the Security tab and see the warnings Watcher has flagged.