Automated Testing Institute

1. A Course on Software Test Automation Design (pdf)

Summary: This is an article relative to software test automation design.  

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 517 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

2. A Course on Software Test Automation Design (ppt)

Summary: This article actually provides slides relative to software test automation design.

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 770 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

3. A Discussion on Process, Metrics, Automation, and Outsourcing

Summary: The goal of this paper is not to discuss the process, metrics, automation and outsourcing in great detail but to understand them well enough to hopefully find a common sense approach toward a workable solution of today's complex, demanding...

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 406 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

4. A Hammer and A Nail

Summary: Automation is a great thing properly applied, but most companies lose sight of the value good manual testing brings. This paper uses a simple analogy to try and stress the importance of good basic skills and the tools to support them....

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 296 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

5. A New Context Driven Approach to Software Test Automation

Summary: This article describes a new context driven approach to software test automation. The content deals with how testing with context dramatically affects the issues of script reliance, script failure and maintenance compared to existing...

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 252 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

6. A Way of Improving Test Automation Cost-Effectiveness

Summary: Test automation has become more and more popular as the market demand for more complex software, involving higher risks and using the same or fewer resources in development, has increased. However, testing automation is as uninviting, as...

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 294 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

7. Advanced Data Driven Testing (ADDT)

Summary: Test automation can be thought of as "writing software to test other software." Using one of the commercially available automated testing tools, test scripts are written that drive the application under test--execute keyboard, mouse actions...

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 214 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

8. Advanced Test Automation Architectures: Beyond Regression Testing

Summary: When most of us think of Test Automation today we picture computer systems quickly running through a battery of regression tests. This picture may have more or less sophistication, but it nearly always starts with taking existing manual...

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 262 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

9. Agile Test Automation

Summary: A lot of test automation is a quagmire. To fix the quagmire, get agile. Here's one vision of how to use an agile toolsmith(s), paired with tester(s), to get test automation real test automation results really fast.  

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 | 415 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

10. An Automated Random String Generator

Summary: Regular expressions are an important tool, but what's been missing is the ability to randomly generate strings that match an expression. Steve Widom lays out this powerful technique in this article.  

Wednesday, 17 December 2008 | 225 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more