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Replace Adobe Acrobat Reader FOREVER!!!

Posted on July 6, 2010. Filed under: Tools |

You know what pisses me off?  It’s the little things!  To quote the grunge band Bush, “It’s the little things that kill, tearing at my brains again.”  Why?  Because they seem to irritate the most–irritate you to death.  It’s the fly buzzing around while you’re trying to relax.  It’s the splinter in your hand.  It’s [...]

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Selenium RC In C# as a Console App: Another End-To-End Example

Posted on February 2, 2010. Filed under: Tools,open source,test automation |

The purpose of this post is to show people how to wrap a Selenium RC test up into a console app (*.exe) so can been executed from the command line.  This is a solution makes it where you don’t have to have NUnit involved. Déjà vu all over again! Another basic Selenium example. What the [...]

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What I Learned by Contributing to FitNesse

Posted on January 4, 2010. Filed under: open source | Tags: , , , |

by Marisa Seal As of today, I am officially a contributor to FitNesse. I contributed a new feature idea and its implementation (the initial idea was borrowed from FitLibrary’s SequenceFixture but morphed a bit based on suggestions from Bob Martin), and also worked on Slim version detection. I am not a developer by training nor [...]

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Selenium RC in C# using NUnit: An End-to-End Example

Posted on September 10, 2009. Filed under: Tools,test automation | Tags: , , , , , , , |

This may come as a shock to many of you, but I’m kinda a dummy. (Collective gasps echoing through the Web.) I know! It’s hard to believe, but that’s why I’m such a great tester: I don’t take much for granted. I hate technology tutorials that kind of wing the details. The devil is in [...]

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Useful Non-testing Tools: Part III

Posted on August 4, 2009. Filed under: Tools | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

As a quality assurance component of an organization, there’s a pretty strong possiblity that you might be called upon to make a presentation of some kind.  No, I’m not going to give you some lame tutorial on using Powerpoint.  Life is too short.  Instead, I’m going to show you some tools to add to your [...]

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Useful Non-testing Tools: Part II

Posted on July 31, 2009. Filed under: Tools | Tags: , , , , |

How do you like the 1st set of testing tools? Any good? Or do they suck? Post your comments; let me know what you think. If you liked the first set, here’s more: Slick Run (Quick Command line Prompt) http://bayden.com/SlickRun/ Slick Run is an always on-top,  floating command line tool that allows to you designate [...]

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Useful Non-testing Tools

Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: Tools | Tags: , , , , , |

After writing two philosophic testing blog entries that smacked of a bourbon fogged night (I promise; I was sober!), I decided to give the people something with some meat.  I have compiled a list (no warnings or errors) of some of the best non-testing tools that testers can use.  These are tools that aren’t directly [...]

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