FlexMonkey – first questions, first steps…

1. What about modals ?
Nothing extraordinary ! Modal windows are only another type of components container. We must have the knowledge that automation API agent is looking for components in our modal and underlaying container ! So if we have button “Save” in Alert and “Save” in toolbar FlexMonkey will click only the first declared [...]

FlexMonkey 1.0 – Complete Testing Solution ?

Serveral months ago I reviewed FlexMonkey as a test automation tool. Great stuff but with no official release > 1.0 Now we have to download fresh and ready 1.0 version from http://code.google.com/p/flexmonkey/
Changes ?

Fluint / FlexUnit 4 Test Creation
New GUI
Snapshots !
Ant and Hudson / CI Support
Property and Bitmap Verification

Adobe article : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexmonkey.html
Give FlexMonkey [...]

Test Case Management in JIRA #1

Once you have ready and running JIRA instance, which deals with our products issue handling, we would like to do more, especially we have free and waiting great Enterprise version features like custom workflows, plugins, user defined fields, etc. Often issue handling process is placed inside quality assurance department, which manages the tests, if we [...]

7 Ways to Quickly Rate Website Quality

From time to time someone requests a glimpse of the website quality. Our expert judgement may be insufficient, we must support it with several pages report. How to write such document, where the data take from ? Basic information can be gathered from free to use online tools. Below is the list, composed with a [...]

FlexMonkey – Flex Test Automation Tool Review

My review plan regarding tools for automated testing of GUI applications written in Adobe Flex, starting from the most promising, easy-to-use FlexMonkey.
The program is based on a sample application AutoQuick made by Adobe, available to present opportunities for Flex Automation API. We are dealing with a typical  Record and Playback application with a small but [...]

Three fresh links – Free Flex Automation Tools

I am preparing to review all the opensource Flex automation frameworks for now we have the three fresh links for three software worth to try.
Tools are based on Flex Automaiton API.
Flex Monkey
Provides record and replay features. Easy integrates with continuous integration process. Very promising.
FunFx
Great for Ruby lovers, based on Watir experiences. FunFX is the result [...]

Three fresh links – Testing Tools

I’ve decided to follow Nat Torkington in giving You a few valuable and fresh links (three not four because I’m not such great blogger :)), which summarize single topic.
Deconstructing Our Tools by Danny R. Faught
He describes software testing area in application lifecycle management, then He tries to count and name tools that we propably need [...]

Desktop Applications Performance Testing Automatization

We know, nowadays, how to automatically examine the performance of web applications or simple web pages, it is based mainly on how the web server can cope with a large number of simultaneous sessions/users. There are plenty of professional and open source tools: JMeter, WebLoad, etc., the most of them are targeted to a new [...]