Test Automation

  • I am happy to announce the Arjuna 1.1.0 production release. Arjuna 1.0.0 production release happened on May 12. In a short span of around 1.5 months, Arjuna has come a long way with an expanded feature set to serve test automation needs. Following is a list of major feature additions: HTTP Automation Arjuna now wraps

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  • Pattern thinking is one of the most import skills to learn. Patterns tell us repeatable ways of solving a family of problems. Anti-patterns tell us what to avoid unless we want to land in trouble. Designing and implementing a test automation framework takes more than knowledge of coding, basic constructs and popular documented ways of

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  • The article was published in June-2015 edition of Tea time With Testers. You can read the same along with other testing related articles by downloading the magazine here. Given the web context, I decided to include the full text of the article on my website as well. This is the first article in my series

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  • I presented a research paper under Innovation category at UNICOM’s Next Generation Testing conference, held at Bangalore on 11th July, 2013. My paper was able to generate a lot of interest in people’s minds for my company Test Mile and what we can offer. My paper was titled – Design of Test Automation – Principles

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  • Translation, Adaptation, Merging, Extending and Exemplifying using analogy as well as specific examples are essential learning techniques that I have explored as a tester. I am in the process of building expertise in my company – Test Mile – on the area of white box testing as well as India’s first white box testing course

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  • This is the third installment in the Notes on Test Automation series. So far I have published one article in this series about Test Encapsulation, which focuses on making tests the most powerful part of a framework, and one about Distributed Testing Models, in which various types of implementation of distributed testing and their pros/cons were discussed. In this

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  • In the first article – Test Encapsulation – published in the Q3/2010 edition of Testing Experience, I explained how the design of a test automation framework (from now on referred to as TAF) should start by thinking of tests first and then the surrounding features. In this article I’m going to address another challenging area in the design of TAFs

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  • I am going to present a half-day tutorial – “Designing and implementing a Common Test Automation Platform” as a part of STeP-IN SUMMIT 2011 at the following locations: Hyderabad – February 11, 2011 at Taj Deccan Bangalore – February 16, 2011 at Taj Residency Please find below the details of the tutorial. You can find

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  • I delivered a talk on Test Encapsulation at QAI’ STC held at Chancery Pavilion, Banglaore. I’ve uploaded the slides @ SlideSahre. Welcome to the colorful world of test automation! Test Encapsulationhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=testencapsulationrahulverma-101124072545-phpapp01&stripped_title=test-encapsulation&userName=rahulverma81 View more presentations from Rahul Verma. Rahul

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  • Test automation is one of my favourite subjects as a software tester. I have been planning for long to write a series – “Notes on Test Automation” – through which I can document and share my learning from designing and implementing test automation frameworks as well based on the literature I read for the purpose

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