Comments on: Exploratory Test Assistant – a tool for recording your exploratory testing notes

By: TestingMuse

TestingMuse — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:20:52 +0000

Great little tool and very intuitive to get to grips with. Currently I do all my noting, bug drafts etc in Notepad2 but there’s no clear cut way of separating log items as your tool provides.

The ‘only’ thing I dislike is the lack of new line between log items, e.g.:-

#BUG
===
Raised: 04/02/2009 03:14:14

My bug
NOTE
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04/02/2009 03:14:28

This is a note!

Ideally there’d be a line break between ‘My bug’ and ‘NOTE’ above to make it clearer when looking at a log (I’m not skilled enough to write a perl parser etc) ;)

Anyhoo even with that niggle I still think it’s phenomenal so nicely shared, thanks!

All the best,

Thanks for the comment TestingMuse. AutoIt is easier than Perl so you could amend it to add a new line – or amend the template so that it has a new line in it.

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By: Ivor Mac

Ivor Mac — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:51:42 +0000

ETA.exe… hmmm…. Why not call The Evil Tester’s Axe or something along those lines.

How can you not be evil and not hear the MMMMWWWWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA every time you log something that may be a bug!!! Or a Risk or an Issue!

Only kidding, thanks for the utility. I’ll slap it on my system on a keychain.

I’m currently evaluating an exploratory testing tool that seems pretty good so far. Don’t want to mention the name as I don’t want a clatter of people slagging it off or praising it to high heaven. If you want to know, just call me ok, we’ll do lunch yadda yadda yadda. However it works out, maybe ET will accept a post of the report?!?!?!

Anyways, back to never never land!

I never thought of that as a missing feature but a configurable option to play a sound when making notes would count as anti-social, and not evil.

You picked up on my subliminal message hidden in the ETA.exe, :) but of course I
never wrote a subliminal message because such things do not exist and if we ever
saw one then it obviously wouldn’t work. And don’t go looking for it y’all, because in
this text there obviously ain’t no hidden this message in here. (or is there more than
one?). Please – do – not – waste your time. Now, – time to say thanks.

Thanks Ivor :)

By: Jonathan Kohl

Jonathan Kohl — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:30:57 +0000

Cool. A programmer friend and I have been developing something similar in Java as an open source project. We should be releasing our beta version quite soon. Maybe we can compare notes?

-Jonathan

Thanks for the comment Jonathan – always happy to compare notes – full source code is in the archive as well so you can have a look.