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Siege is a stress testing tool for Web servers

15.04.2011

Siege is a utility for stress testing webservers. It was created to give developers the ability to check the resource consumption of its code in conditions close to real. Siege

Selenium 2 makes automation debugging easier

28.03.2011

One of the parts of Selenium 1.0 that I never enjoyed was debugging automation that didn’t work. I had to faff about creating custom Firefox profiles with Firebug installed and

Selenium Auto Accept Self Signed SSL Certificates and Basic Authentication

19.03.2011

One of my biggest annoyances and unresolved issues with Selenium is the self-signed SSL certificates. This was a huge issue for me on the last project when we had dozen

Unit Testing SharePoint with TypeMock (Part I)

17.03.2011

As a developer testing isn’t necessarily fun but it is an essential aspect of what we do. I find it’s always a challenge to find the best approach that balances

WebMethod testing with iTKO LISA

15.03.2011

What are webMethod /Software AG? webMethod suite is a software for process improvement, SOA enablement, IT modernization and business and partner integration. To ensure integration projects deliver expected business results,

Running Selenium Server Using Custom Firefox Profile

07.03.2011

Let’s create custom firefox profile at first: 1. Close all running copies of firefox 2. Start => Run 3. Type firefox.exe -ProfileManager -no-remote, other often offer to run command firefox.exe

Interview Questions of Selenium

05.03.2011

1.    What is the difference between an assert and a verify with Selenium commands? 2.    What Selenese commands can be used to help debug a regexp? 3.    What is one

27% of QA Teams Don’t Use a Bug Tracker

04.03.2011

Note: the article was updated in June 2018. According to a Data Research conducted by Testuff, a provider of solution for test management activities, 27% of test management tool users

Apache JMeter Basis

03.03.2011

I’ve been doing some self-training for a few weeks. This time the choice fell on performance testing and specifically on a very interesting and useful open-source tool from Apache. I

Adding Custom Result Types in TestLink

24.02.2011

We actively use TestLink as the management system for testing. It is also very convenient to use it in conjunction with the automated tests. A little later I will tell

E-mail Distribution of Test Results Obtained from Selenium + TestNG

If you have to run a bunch of automated tests using Selenium + TestNG, the results of running the tests can be easily sent to all interested parties automatically. It