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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:58 AM

Random string generation…Update!

One of the biggest challenges in input testing is the sheer amount of potential characters and the virtually infinite number of permutations of those characters in different character positions in a string. Even if we know about the myriad of language
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:27 AM

Data-Driven Testing

I am generally not a big fan of static data in test automation, but being a pragmatic person, I know there are clearly times when using data-driven testing is just plain common-sense. For example, data-driven testing is an effective automation approach
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:58 PM

Temporary test files

There are occasionally times during an automated test needs to create a temporary file during the execution of that test. The problem is that often this file is left behind on the system, or even worse stored in some obscure directory on a server. I say
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:06 PM

Test Automation: Simple Automated Test Case Templates

Templates can be useful tools to help increase individual efficiency and team consistency. Yet, I am sometimes quite surprised that some organizations lack standard templates for such daily routines such as bug reporting, status reporting, and even test
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:31 AM

Test Automation: Programmatic Platform Profiling

Occasionally, the execution or outcome of a test depends on the operating system version on which the test is executed. Platform profiling is important because subtle differences in operating system platforms can affect how certain tasks are carried out,
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:59 AM

Automation Foibles Unveiled: Coding Guidelines Part 1 - Basic Layout

It has been awhile since I have written about test automation, so I thought I would start the new year off with a post about test automation. More specifically, I wanted to start talking about coding guidelines. Just as many development teams have adopted
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:40 PM

Babel - A 'new' random Unicode string generator test tool

For some time I have wanted to add surrogate pair character support to a tool I developed called GString, and this week I managed to find some time to do that work and more! As I developed the methods for surrogate pair support I rewrote (refactored in
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:03 PM

Why we automate

I never really understood why so many people external to Microsoft seem to be against the Microsoft strategy to increase the amount of automation we rely on to test our products. Test automation has become sine qua non at Microsoft for many valuable reasons.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:16 PM

How long will it take?

When getting close to shipping a product and the team discovers a critical defect that must be fixed one of the first questions asked by the management team is, "how long will it take?" From a testing perspective they generally want to know 2 things;
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Friday, June 08, 2007 4:12 PM

Emotional Test Automation

In April I hosted a session at the Software Testing and Performance conference entitled Why Test Automation Fails . I actually tried out a new delivery style for me similar to a town hall format where I attempted to elicit participation from the attendees.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:42 PM

Random test data generation

I am not a big fan of static test data, so this month's issue of Software Testing and Performance magazine published an article I wrote outlining one approach for generating random string data (although the basic concepts can be used for generating other
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Sunday, December 24, 2006 7:54 AM

More on generating strings with random Unicode characters

Well, for those of you living outside the Pacific Northwest you are probably unaware of the recent wind storm with winds gusting to 60+ miles per hour that left more than 1 million people on the eastern side of the state without power. The damage was
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