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We need more manual testers… no really…

by on February 5, 2013 in automation, No Comments »

There will always be a need for manual testing. Certain types of interactions within an application are always too unique, too complex and too costly to develop automated test economically.

The Enterprise can learn a lot about testing from developers

by on February 5, 2013 in automation, No Comments »

Cucumber is often used by a test driven developer to insure proper code functionality.   He can write test cases and then code while using the test cases to insure the code works as designed.  This also insures a couple of things for the developer.  First it insures that he understands the business functionality; Second his [...]

HP ALM and Awetest

by on January 24, 2013 in ALM, Integration, No Comments »

Contrary to the “QTP Must Die” school of though, we believe that HP tools will continue to maintain their stronghold inside the Enterprise and we’ve taken our first steps to plug into this ecosystem.

Using ‘Pry’ to debug your automation scripts

by on November 16, 2012 in automation, No Comments »

One of the major pain points of developing and maintaining automation scripts is debugging script failures. Often times, when I’m trying to fix an automation script I would make a webdriver code change, run my script, try another webdriver command, and run the script again. I would continue this process until the script is passing, [...]

Testing in Multiple Browser Windows with Watir and Watir-Webdriver

by on August 2, 2012 in automation, Blog Series, watir, webdriver, No Comments »

There are many occasions, using Watir or Watir-Webdriver, when we need to do some testing in one browser window, open another, possibly close it, and return to the first. Watir handles this a bit more transparently than Watir-Webdriver. With Watir you are dealing directly with IE through OLE and IE handles windows and tabs differently [...]

Use a website to distribute your iOS app for Beta Testing

by on July 13, 2012 in automation, Mobile, Mobile App, Mobile Device Testing, Molibe Testing Tools, No Comments »

Steps to Distribute an iOS App using a Website One of the challenges that exist in an iOS dev shop, is how to distribute your app to devices for Beta testing. The Ad-hoc process that Apple supplies for creating an app for distribution is well documented.  But how do we actually get the app on [...]

Beta Testing by Distributing Your iOS (simulator) App

by on July 11, 2012 in Mobile, Mobile App, Mobile Device Testing, Molibe Testing Tools, No Comments »

One of our Mobile App customers had mentioned what a challenge it is to distribute iOS apps for Beta testing and as an going commitment to supporting iOS app testing we have come up with a simple solution to this problem. To understand this challenge you have to understand that today if an iOS app [...]

Using Symbiote to Inspect the DOM on Mobile iOS Applications

by on June 19, 2012 in automation, industry news, Mobile App, Mobile Device Testing, Molibe Testing Tools, Testing Tools, No Comments »

If you have been looking for a firebug like application for inspecting an iOS mobile application DOM, let me introduce you to Symbiote from Pete Hodgson. We discovered this tool as we were adding support for the Frank Mobile Automation Testing into our Awetest Framework. Symbiote is an embedded web server that is added to [...]

Leveraging Calabash for your Mobile Automation Needs

by on June 19, 2012 in automation, Mobile App, No Comments »

As the mobile application market evolves (and explodes) we have been working hard on expanding Awetest’s Mobile App Testing capabilities and that’s when we discovered Calabash. As documented on the Calabash Github page, Calabash is an automated testing technology for Android and iOS native and hybrid applications. The creator of Calabash, Karl Krukow, has written [...]

Automation Best Practices: Tips for Better Management and Maintenance of Test Cases

by on June 5, 2012 in automation, Best Practices, Blog Series, code examples, screenshots, No Comments »

Visit this post for an index for our Blog Series: Best Practices for Achieving Automated Regression Testing Within the Enterprise Manage: Tips for Better Management and Maintenance of Test Cases With maintenance on automated test cases taking up a good portion of our clients time we thought it would be a good idea to layout [...]