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May 7, 2009 0

Why Thinking ‘Inside the Box’ Is Sometimes Effective for Test Automation

Many automation projects often have boxes of time that are deemed more critical than others. As a byproduct, project members may only give attention to test automation implementation and its ...
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Mar 24, 2009 0

Using Java to Import and Manipulate Microsoft Excel

JExcel is an API that allows manipulation of Excel spreadsheets from Java applications. JExcel API is a stable open source product that has been around since 2003. The ...
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Mar 4, 2009 0

Google Tech Talks on Agile Testing

Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the statutes of the agile manifesto, treating software development as the customer of testing.  Here's an excellent video from Google ...
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Mar 3, 2009 0

How to Regression Test a relational database

Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) often persist mission-critical data which is updated by many applications and potentially thousands if not millions of end users.  Furthermore, they implement important functionality in ...
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Mar 1, 2009 0

What to consider when testing databases

The easiest thing to get your head around is the need to validate the logic implemented within a database. Relational databases contain code, in the form of stored procedures, triggers, ...
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Mar 1, 2009 0

How to use JMeter for performance testing

Apache JMeter  is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test client/server software (such as a  web application  ). It may be used to test performance both on ...
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Feb 27, 2009 0

Deploying Separate User/Site Configurations with ClickOnce

Microsoft's ClickOnce framework is a powerful tool for deploying and updating Windows forms applications. Learn how to deploy separate application configurations via two methods: installing and updating from ...
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Feb 26, 2009 0

10 Tips for Successful Agile Transitions

This video is a distillation of knowledge acquired from helping organizations transition to Agile methods for nearly a decade. Topics covered include readiness assessments, organizational antibodies, project community, ...
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Feb 24, 2009 0

Five Ways to Keep Up With Linux

Keeping up with Linux is a time-consuming endeavor. Linux is frequently changing, and it’s so large and widely-used that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all the evolution. ...
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Feb 24, 2009 0

Simple strategies to keep quality visible

In most projects, testers are the keepers of quality. Sharing the vision of quality with the entire team helps everyone involved in a project play a more active role in ...
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Feb 13, 2009 0

Automating software testing with Microsoft Hyper-V

If you have followed Microsoft's latest server features, you might have heard that Windows Server 2008 has built-in support for virtualization. Surely, you could download Virtual Server and install it ...
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Feb 13, 2009 0

Simple guidelines for building test cases for Regression Testing

Regression testing compares two builds or versions of the same target-of-test and identifies differences as potential defects. It thus assumes that a new version should behave like an ...
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