Evil Tester

The Software Testing Club have a competition running in the March 2011 issue of The Testing Planet to win a copy of Selenium Simplified. You can find the competition on page 9. Right after the review by Michael Larsen. I’ve been waiting for the pdf version of The Testing Planet to be released so that [...]

Well I have learned a lot about the self-publishing process. Any testers thinking about going down this route feel free to email me with questions and I’ll help you avoid the mistakes I made. The delays in the process were primarily my misunderstanding of the process. I have finally received a proof of Selenium Simplified [...]

Selenium Simplified was on Amazon, and now is awaiting copies – why? Because I took it out of print to make changes. I was embarrassed by the number of spelling errors and obvious grammar errors in the text so I made a revision. I’m waiting for a proof copy to come through from the print [...]

Both my and David Burns’ books are now available on amazon: Mine: Selenium Simplified   [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk] published by Compendium Developments David’s: Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools   [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk] published by Packt

When I use TestNG for my Selenium tests, I really like the BeforeSuite and AfterSuite annotations because then I can share a Selenium session amongst the tests. With nested JUnit suites I can achieve a similar effect, and I can also go some way to grouping my tests to make it easier to create browser [...]

A reader asked for recommendations on how to use Selenium’s "Highlight" command. Now I personally don’t use the highlight function. Never really have. When I debug my tests, I step through the script in Eclipse (I write all my tests in Selenium-RC using Java). But, by using reflection to automatically generate code for a java [...]

Why would you want to change the JavaScript of a web application you have to test? Well, if you want to test that events get triggered correctly and the basic structure of the page rather than the actual functionality implemented by the JavaScript. Perhaps the JavaScript does something that you can’t handle with the automation [...]

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 [...]