Michael In our project, developers use watir for validating a build -- basically regression testing to demonstrate that the build is viable and worthy of deploying in the test environment. Testers use a disfferent tool. Their job is made simpler because they don't wate time on a build that has one of those dumb breakages that stops testing because a page gives Error 500 or some essential feature is broken and prevents accessing a whole area of functionality. It automates what developers needed to do manually before. It makes life better for everyone; developers dislike regression testing; testers hate broken builds. John
On 8/18/05, Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My developer chums and I use Watir as part of our test-driven development. > As such, we're giddy to be able to finally write unit tests for the UI. But > the presence of these developer written UI test scripts raises questions > about what impact, if any, they will have on what our QA engineer will focus > on. It's tempting to suggest that there is a whole set of functionality > that they simply don't have to test manually anymore. But clearly this is > just wrong, wrong, wrong. The developers will only write tests for the > things they think of, and we all know that developers tend to be optimistic > about their code. In addition, the unit tests themselves can have flaws > that cause a test to pass when the code is not, in fact, functioning > properly. > > So, it seems that we still need the QA engineer to do a full manual QA pass > on the software. At what point do these scripts allieviate some of the QA > engineer's manual testing burden? > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > -=michael=- > > > -- > Michael Kelly > Sr. Software Engineer > Eleven Wireless Inc. - The Possibilities are Wireless > http://www.elevenwireless.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
