Eurostar 2011 – Interesting Books, software and websites
Last week we attended all Eurostar 2011 keynotes and many presentations (tracks). We came back home with lots of useful information! Most of it we already shared in our previous Eurostar 2011 blogs:...
View ArticleNetbeans 7.0.1 and Selenium 2.15.0
In this blog post I’ll describe how for Netbeans 7.0.1, I got the existing Selenium plugin (which uses Selenium server 2.0) to use the latest Selenium version, 2.15.0. But first, some context. At...
View ArticleIT Quality – A Question of Discipline(s)!
People tend to talk a lot about software quality, but what is it exactly? Sure, there are a number of tools that promise to measure your software’s quality level. Some of them are certainly quite good...
View ArticleValori automated testing event – Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server and...
Yesterday, march 6th 2012, my colleague Barri Jansen and I attended Valori’s “thema avond” (theme night). The subject for the evening was “New generation software for automated testing”. The event was...
View ArticleEJB 3.1: Concurrency Management and (Avoiding) Synchronization
At Avisi we use a custom built EJB 3 based application for scheduling and running (automated) regression tests. This involves a queue from which objects are taken. These objects contain metadata...
View ArticleStress Test Lessons from the Banking Industry
Our international economic system is highly dependent on the stability and quality of numerous individual banks. In Europe the main banks are submitted to so-called ‘banking stress test exercises‘...
View ArticleTesting with Selenium & Saucelabs
A very important part of our software development cycle is functional testing. Luckily, functional testing techniques have evolved tremendously since the dark days of old school testing. Back then,...
View ArticleConsistent performance testing with Oracle, is it possible?
Ever wanted to improve a badly performing Oracle 11 database, or parts of it? How would you know for sure the performance improved for end users? An Oracle database is a complex entity. It has all...
View ArticleMitchel Kuijpers on testing frameworks
A couple of interns started work at Avisi recently. Everyone of them is working on an interesting assignment. We will introduce them in the coming weeks on the blog. Today we are featuring Mitchel...
View ArticleTesting your GigaSpaces XAP application
Very often when I deliver a GigaSpaces training I get asked “I like the technology, but how would you recommend we test our XAP application?”. This happened most recently during the GigaSpaces XAP...
View ArticleConstruct your test objects safely and easily
I am currently working on an application that has very high test coverage, which usually means applying changes is a safe and relatively easy task. Still, I felt that I was losing a disproportional...
View ArticleUsing personas in software testing
Meet ‘grandmother’ Wilhelmina Petronella van der Linden-Zaagsma. Born on a leap day (February 29, 1928), she was bound to become a very special lady. She is a loving and caring person and especially...
View ArticleGet more out of Bamboo with Docker – Part 1
If you search in Google for Docker and Bamboo and skip the Atlassian links, then you will find numerous links on how to create a Docker container for a Bamboo remote agent. Nice to know but what is the...
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