June 14th, 2013 
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Recently, I’ve encountered an issue with an AUT where it crashes VUgen during the generation stage of a recording session. Now I’m a big fan of record-edit-playback. I find the recording and generation logs hugely useful and I find that recording is the easiest and quickest way to get a view of the application. I […]
May 29th, 2013 BlogAdmin 
Actually, this is more like 1.1. In as much as it ties into the previous post. I was blogging about building audit logs and data files via an “audit” script. That’s what I call them, not sure if there’s a full blown technical name but I use them to verify, validate and build data to […]
April 4th, 2013 BlogAdmin 
It’s been a long time since I had the time and inclination to update the site. Partly because I’ve been busy working and partly because I was hideously aware that the next stage for the site was complicated and not exactly in my wheelhouse. I can code, clearly, since I automate everything and work as […]
March 20th, 2013 BlogAdmin 
So, I’m working at a new client, back doing the Loadrunner thing. One of the nice things about that is I get to re-use and refine code I’ve written previously for other clients. This article is going to contain some of these code snippets that I’ve used time and time again. I’ve re-visited this code […]
November 17th, 2011 BlogAdmin 
I’ve been working in Lithuania for the last 3 months. It’s cold over here. To keep warm (and paid), I’ve been writing some loadrunner scripts for a Scandinavian bank. One of them seeks to emulate a customer paying cash into their account. As you’d imagine, this is a high priority, high usage script so I’ve […]
July 21st, 2011 BlogAdmin 
Watir is an open-source ruby-based browser automation tool. I first looked at it 6 months ago but with a new loadrunner role to involve myself with, I didn’t get far. In any case, these are the steps I took to get started and to get things up and running. 1. Install Ruby from ruby-lang.org. I […]
February 25th, 2011 BlogAdmin I wanted to prepare an article that specifies the very basic best practices for Automated Testing, whether its functional or non-functional. It seems to me that all the tools, whether open-source or commercial allow for these essential practices, presumably because this is the way we should all be doing it… some of us aren’t, you […]
November 23rd, 2010 BlogAdmin 
Ok, in place of the planned article on QTP automation which I promise I will get to eventually, this post will be about interacting with files through QTP. Typically we’ll want to handle text files (for error logging and general message transmission) or Excel files. To begin with though, there are some standard declarations required. […]
November 3rd, 2010 BlogAdmin In which I shall attempt to state that there are 3 and only 3 approaches to performance testing… 1. The comparative method. We’ll assume you have an application called AUT v1.0, We’ll further assume you have a scenario built to test AUT v1.0 and to hit it sufficiently hard that it’s response times are less […]
November 3rd, 2010 BlogAdmin I’ve recently been tasked with inserting data into an 20-year-old 16-bit application to give us a benchmark data set for an updated alternative. In standard investment banking terms, there are deals, to which orders are attached, and there are orders which can have multiple tickets. An API had been developed for inserting Orders and Tickets […]
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