Test Engineering
Nigel Fernandes
Software Design Engineer
BookEazy Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Why test ?
To find bugs
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To verify the specifications
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To know the limits of the system
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Good developer karma
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Types of Tests
Unit Tests
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Functional Tests
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Automated
Stress Tests
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Load Tests
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…and of course manual tests.

Who does the testing ?
Developer Testing
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Software Quality Testing
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Beta User Testing
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It is really challenging !
Writing good tests is hard.
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Avoiding ‘Happy Path’ tests is hard.
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Avoiding Test Training is hard.
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Budgeting for test development is hard
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Maintaining tests is hard.
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Why should you care?
Design Code Testing
Time Estimate For Feature

What else?
Code quality and Bugs
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Code enhancements
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Specification and Requirement changes
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Sometimes there’s no other way
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The magic of Selenium
“Selenium uses JavaScript and Iframes to embed a
test automation engine in your browser”

Bits and Pieces
Selenium Core
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Selenium RC (love this)
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Selenium IDE (damn cool)
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Selenium Architecture

Selenium Alternatives
Watir
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WebDriver
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Jmeter
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Why Selenium rocks
Cross browser support is the best available
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Scaleable. Architecture supports multi-browser
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parallelism
JavaScript extendibility is just awesome
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Selenium IDE for Firefox
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Interactive Selenium RC
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Down the line support
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Bunch of URL’s
www.openqa.org
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www.youtube.com [search
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for GTAC 2007]
tech.nigel.in
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www.nigel.in
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www.askAnayKamat.com
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Email me at nigel@nigel.in