Archive for May, 2011

Use Real Words to Communicate, Not Testing Phrases

I think people use ‘standard’ testing phrases too much. e.g. System Testing Testing Performance Testing Functional Testing Non-functional Testing Black box testing Unit Testing etc. etc. The user of each phrase holding the assumption that the reader/listener of each phrase understands the phrase the same way as the user. They don’t, they have their own [...]

When automating, do you wait before or after the event?

As I worked on the code for my “migrating to selenium 2.0” workshop at Tony Bruce’s Skills Matter event recently. One of my automation challenges involved waiting for an element to have clickability. It existed in the DOM, visible, and all other rendered event style isCondition()s. But when clicked on, it could not respond to [...]