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(A conversation snippet from the hogfish.net archives, circa 2007)
Trish says:
aw man
Trish says:
/me tries to remember what the file made yesterday was called
Trish says:
/me sifts through files called things like jam.xml, ponymeat.xml, pork.xml, rais…

I’ve heard that people can identify with either visual, auditory or tactile methods of learning, or some combination of the three. This is called Fleming’s VARK model of learning. The concept is pretty simple. Visual learners learn best with visual…

If you’ve ever maintained a large suite of GUI automated tests, then you’re probably familiar with this scenario: You run your suite overnight and everything passes except for a couple of tests which fail unexpectedly. When you re-run them, they pa…

Bruce McLeod and I have just launched our new podcast, Testcast. In episode 1 we talk about automation, testing communities, the famous parking calculator tool and finally answer the age old question – just what is purple box testing?
Listen to it ov…

Last year, James Martin and I wrote an article for The Testing Planet about low-tech dashboards. Even though James has now left Campaign Monitor and flown to the other side of the world, the power of the internet has enabled us to bring you this nostal…

In case I haven’t spruiked it enough yet, we’re currently looking for a new tester here at Campaign Monitor. From previous hiring experience, I know that it’s tough work to find a good tester, especially here in Australia. Writing job description…

So a few weeks ago, I gave the green light for my team of testers to start fixing bugs.
Contraversial, no?
“Sweet mercy, what have you done?!” I hear you cry. “If testers start fixing bugs, they won’t want to find them anymore and the develope…

Want to work with me in a place that gives you your own private office, free catered lunches and flexible work hours? Good news then – we’re hiring a tester! If you’re awesome and you can test and code C#, then I want to hear from you.
Click here…

I’d had this idea in my head for a while to create an automated script that would take any web application and click on every link, looking for big obvious errors. So when I found myself with a bit of time on my hands, and a task to test every page i…

This is just one of those things that took a while to figure out, and there wasn’t much information about it on the internet. So I’m adding that information to the internet now.
I have a large suite of automated GUI tests. I wanted them to take scr…