Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I recently attended the 2008 conference for Continuous Integration in Melbourne, and mixed with like minded professionals involved with all aspects of CI and testing in general.
In short this is a great (free) opportunity to attend a conference using an open session format. By that I mean the conference ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
If diff -u or wdiff isn't cutting it for your correlating requirements when scripting load harnesses, you might want to try daisydiff as an alternative ... * Works with badly formed HTML that can be found "in the wild".
* The diffing is more ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Went to the third RailsCamp held in a scout hall near Gosford NSW last weekend; my brain has just about got back to normal after 3 solid days of drinking and coding =)
RailsCamp is a get together of mostly Rails developers, but also a fairly eclectic mix of Ruby hackers ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
By now you've probably heard of watir or Web Application Testing In Ruby, a great automation framework which supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, and recently came in at number 3 as a popular oss tool on this blog.
I've been using this tool mostly from a windows box, and knew of the ...
Posted in Ruby, Automation, watir | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Recently had a requirement to construct a LoadRunner harness that could sftp files (over ssh) to and from remote servers. As some of the harnesses were already written in Java (for loading of JMS queues) it made sense to use a Java Vuser to achieve the result required.
A work colleague ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Recently I noticed some discussion in the watir user group about trying to capture screenshots when running automated tests.
For such a simple requirement, it's frustrating that solutions available either cost money (such as the purchase of SnagIt) or are a tad complicated in implementation requiring the installation of some out ...
Posted in Ruby, Tools, Programming, watir | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
This is a short post on how to establish JDBC connectivity to a MySQL database when using the Java Vuser type within LoadRunner. Stuart describes a situation in which you might want to do this here. I'm not sure why but the example code is missing from his site, so ...
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