Each day presents something new to learn.

I ran into a problem today where some french and spanish characters were being displayed strangely. And this made my test to fail, After some poking around in google i can across a post that suggested adding require ‘cucumber/formatter/unicode’ to the env.rb and that seem to have sorted the problems i was having. Hopes this saves you some time.

In my last blog post, i described how i have used jmeter-plugins at my current client site, now i am faced with another problem , i need to be able to run these performance test from command line, in other for these performance tests to be executed in a CI environment such as teamcity. A quick search brings to light the ant jmeter task which is an ant task for running jmeter test.

Jmeter is a well known open source performance/load testing tool and to be fair it does a lot of stuff really well. if you wants to do some quick performance testing without a whole lots of infrastructure around it then it is great. I started out my task with jmeter with some objectives: <li> A tool that i could integrate into a CI tool such as teamcity</li> <li> Meaningful graphs that could be easily interpreted by any one in the team</li> <li> Able to integrate the graphs into teamcity</li> <li> Able to monitor the performance of the website under test.

Sometime i would use my blog as a place to keep interesting stuff for future exploration. I came across the chrome net internals today and i think it exposes a lot of useful information that might be useful to testers when testing a web application. To access the chrome net internals, navigate to chrome://net-internals/ on a google chrome browser. I would be spending some more time in the future exploring this but for now its back to work.

In my the few years, where i have pushed for testers developers to write acceptance test before development or implementation commences, I’ve had testers come up to me say its difficult to achieve this when you dont know what the UI would look like. This post would attempt to decribe how i have done this in the past and i still do this at the moment. NB: Ideally i would write my test using page object pattern, if this was a new project, I would start creating page objects

I have been working at this client where i am opportuned to use cucumber, watir-webdriver and i came across this problem today. The application i am testing is an e-commerce site and i am writing test for a page on which i click on an item and the item appears on the shopping basket area of the site. My code look like [code] def select_item(item_name) @browser.li(:text => /#{item_name}/).link(:class_name => “addOptions”).click Watir::Wait.

I moved my blog from the blogger one to wordpress and i wanted to ensure that people that have bookmarked post on my old blog get redirected to the new one on wordpress as i wouldnt be update the old blog anymore. I found a lot of effort by different people and all the stuff that was suggested using javascript didnt work for me, what i got was regardless of the page you are on my old blogger site, you would be redirected to my homepage on the wordpress site which is not very helpful.

Having just finished an engagement with a client where the development practices include kanban and BDD. Kanban for us meant that we give priority to work on the right side of the board. So as a tester, I would rather spend my time doing some manual testing on a story that is in the QA queue, than writing automated acceptance tests for a story in the queue for Acceptance Tests.