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Do I Really Need To Automate This Test?

Monday, March 8, 2010

For the past 2 weeks my students in my automation course at University of Washington have been tasked with designing automated test cases through the GUI for a shareware program. In my opinion, GUI automation is the least effective approach for testing the functional or business logic of a program (assuming a well designed architecture [...]

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API Testing – Thinking Differently About the Problem

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Last year the University of Washington Extension Program started running a new Software Test Automation using C# program that I designed and developed for experienced testers with little or no programming background. The program is very popular and has more than 60 people waiting for the next offering. Unfortunately, the pay is not that great [...]

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Thinking About Critical Thinking And Test Design

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Did you ever notice that when you ask someone to test something the first thing they do is to start ‘testing?’
I often see this in my classes and I ask the person, “what is the purpose of your test?” Typically the response is, “I’m testing this,” or “I’m trying to find a bug.”
Unfortunately this seems [...]

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