Research & Development for 3D & the Web

In the world of web, having a specification document is pretty much essential. How can you make promises and come to an agreement with a client if they are not documented and signed off on? Not having a specification document would be a nightmarish mistake. This very fact is great as a tester because it means that so long as you have access to the specification document you can plan ahead and create a test plan which should address each and every section of the specification. The benefit of this Read more [...]

Logging Bugs Effectively as a Tester I've only been at it for a short while (just under 4 years as of the date of this post) and it may come as a surprise that logging a bug as a tester is not really that difficult.. Doing so effectively on the hand can be somewhat more of a skill. Something doesn't work the way you it should or the way you expect it to work, you tell the developer or designer right? Right. Well kind of... There's a right way and a wrong way to do this and the difference is usually Read more [...]

Introduction to Testing Testing is a very important part of any kind of software development cycle. Having software tested in the right way throughout the development cycle can save a company and their clients a heap of time and money. Finding issues can happen at any point in development, from as early as the proposal stage to as late as someone calling in with a support issue which turns out to be a bug in the software. Finding a possible issue in the proposal document is much more ideal than Read more [...]

Beginners guide to setting up Selenium for automated testing I glossed over what Selenium is and a little of what it can do. Now it's time to take a real look by installing the Firefox add-on and putting it through its paces. If you don't have Firefox, go grab it. I'm not bothering to link you to the Firefox site because if you are here looking into how to do automated testing and you don't know where to get Firefox or what it is, then for you unfortunately this is a NO THROUGH ROAD, TURN AROUND Read more [...]

Bromine  is a Web Testers best friend. Browser compatibility is such a pain in the neck and testing things across all browsers out there is a nightmare. Thankfully Bromine eases this pain substantially. Bromine marries up with Selenium to allow you export tests from Selenium in various programming languages which can be altered as needed and then uploaded into a Bromine test suite for each and every website you are required to test. Although the set up involved with Bromine is quite intense, Read more [...]