Test automation around emails is pain, if not done properly.

Almost all the user facing web applications require user registration with the email and email usually serves as username in the system – which should be unique.

There are two main problems in automating email functionality –

• Generating unique email addresses
• Accessing inbox and content of the specific emails to check correctness of content and delivery

When I discussed this with evil tester, he pointed me to his blog post on getting disposable email addresses . When I followed the link to lifehacker ,from his blog post, first problem was solved.

It was easy enough to generate a random number such as current time stamp and amend it to any gmail address after adding a plus sign to create new email addresses which will go to the same inbox. So example @ gmail.com, example+123 @ gmail.com and example+321 @ gmail.com are ...

If you are involved in doing any kind of test automation for web application, I am sure you are either using, or have considered Selenium for your test automation efforts. Well, if you have not considered, then maybe it’s time to give it a shot…

For folks who are familiar with or are using Selenium / WebDriver in any form, I hope you are aware that Selenium conference is happening from 16’Th to 18’Th April in London.

Last year, I travelled all the way to San Francisco from London to attend the conference and presented Magic of Modular Test Automation and this year I am presenting One Step At A Time (Will publish slides after the conference). BTW, I also wrote laziest experience report of Selenium Conference 2011 to share my experience … and to summarize my last year's experience in one word - Selenium Conf 2011 was AWESOME ...

Continuous performance Monitoring

Performance testing is an important and integral part of most testing projects. This type of testing corresponds to Q4 of the Agile testing quadrant. You can find interesting insights on the agile testing quadrants in this post by Lisa Crispin.

Usually performance testing teams are different from functional testing teams and their reports / data etc are not easily available to to the entire team. I wanted to have more visibility, integration and feedback about the performance of application - essentially I was looking for Continuous Performance Monitoring.

In this post I will discuss what is continuous performance monitoring and how useful it is to report performance trends for every build.

In my current project, I am using TeamCity as the build server. TeamCity supports custom charts for any data. I thought, It should be possible to have performance data from all the teams in a particular format and ...

Disclaimer - This post is about the announcement of my pet project - http://www.iCheckWebsite.com

From past few weeks I was focusing on my pet project, iCheckWebsite.com. I was wearing many hats - product owner, scrum master, designer, occasional developer and tester. It was fun and our shiny new version is live now :-) Wearing so many hats was/is difficult and to be honest - it probably means compromising little bit. But hey, it’s okay for self funded start-ups to compromise a little bit. Iterations are not long and hopefully in every new iteration - product will become better and better.

So let me explain what is iCheckWebsite, it’s core idea and how it could be extremely useful for testers working in the web application domain.

iCheckWebsite is an on-demand test automation and content monitoring tool for websites . iCheckWebsite makes it extremely easy to test and monitor content of websites ...

Okay, I admit - I was a bit lazy to write, but hey I had a baby boy in Feb and took time off to play with him and took him to our native place in India. All important stuff right?

Okay so about the conferences - I was in USA for close to three weeks and attended STP Conference in Nashville and WATIR day and Selenium Conference at San Francisco. I started my vacation right after Selenium Conference and I am back again in UK now. I am following LIFO (Last In First Out) to cover Selenium Conference in this post and will cover WATIR day and STP Conference in due course.

Selenium Conference was completely sold out and even for workshop day on Monday - there were little over 300 people in the room. It was a bit of challenge for everyone to follow workshop because of the network related issues ...

Web applications are everywhere and most of us test them to earn our bread and butter. Broadly speaking, there are two types of web applications or websites - One which provide service and another which provide content. Web applications such as emails, facebook, bank or blogging platform provide a specific service and BBC, Times and many such sites provide content.

Irrespective of the type of web application, all of them need to understand user behaviour on the site and gather key usage pattern. One common way of doing this is with the help of analytic code. As a tester, it is important for us to understand how it works and how it can be tested. In this entry, I will discuss this in more detail and show you how iCheckWebsite can be used to test analytic code.

So what is Analytic code? Analytic code is usually a java script snippet which ...

Last month Komal Joshi and Patrick Martin presented @ GTAC 2008 conference in Seattle, USA. Google Test Automation Conference is one of the best conference for testing / automation and it was certainly a good experience for TestingGeek to present this at GTAC.

This presentation will give you basic information on how simple tools like SVN, batch files and task schedulers can be used to create Continuous Integration for mature desktop applications.

Solution like these are one of the best way to move teams towards more mature continuous integration environment. Using this approach, teams can start to see and appreciate benefits environment like this will bring to the projects.

Hope this presentation will be easy to follow and you will understand the basic concept behind this. Please subscribe to our newsletter if you want to remain on top of whatever is published on TestingGeek.

Rick Mugridge, Author of the famous book "Fit for Developing Software" explains the concept of story driven development, executable specifications and FitNesse. In this presentation, he addresses four main issues involved with software development and how FitNesse can be used to address following issues

1. How can we improve test coverage on a legacy system without discouraging its evolutio
2. How can QA be involved earlier and more effectively?
3. How can product managers better utilise their expertise?

Testing Mobile Handsets with FitNesse - Uffe Koch & Mark Boxall

In this lecture process and problems associated with developing mobile applications is discussed. Specifically, what kind of problems are associated with testing mobile applications, what type of test cases you need to write for mobile applications and how FitNesse can be used for mobile applications testing.