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Hi Michael I am the sole QA grunt for our company,
and there are several ways that Watir has helped alleviate my testing burden: 1 – I use Watir scripts to update
our baseline data to try and mimic the client’s use of our application so
our testing data is up to date. 2 – I run a scripted timed test
which performs the same tasks each time and logs the amount of time it takes
for those tasks to finish. This allows me to identify if a change in the code
is making a certain process run faster or slower then it did in a previous
version. 3 – I am still developing some
simple regression test scripts. These will be used on areas of the site that
virtually never change and are a pain to run through manually. Of course there is nothing that can
replace the ‘real user’ testing – at least that’s what
I’m basing my career on! There are many functions in our application that
are way too cumbersome to automate as there are too many combinations and permutations
of the results. These functions will always be manually tested, but by
automating some of the more simpler tasks, it allows me more time to focus on
the more difficult ones. Hope that helps Tom Feodoroff Presslogic Inc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Behalf Of Michael Kelly 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=- -- |
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