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Join us on October 6th for a 30-minute webinar on improving automated test script resiliency in the upcoming QA Wizard Pro 2011. Matt Fuhrmann, QA Wizard Pro software engineer, will discuss how to:

• Configure scripts to continue running when unexpected errors occur with On Error statements.
• Build advanced error recovery logic into a script with Try…Catch blocks.
• Script examples that demonstrate how error handling insulates scripts from application changes.

If you’re new to QA Wizard Pro or want to learn more about advanced script error handling, this event is for you!

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn: Get More from Load Testing event. The recording is now available if you missed the training session or want to watch it again.

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Many web applications behave differently depending on what browser the user is using. For example, many web sites will switch to a mobile web interface if the user’s browser indicates that the user is using a mobile platform. Most web applications are designed to fully support all popular browsers. However, you probably want to make sure that your web application responds correctly regardless of the browser. With QA Wizard Pro load testing, you can simulate different user agents during playback to test this behavior.

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Whether you’re looking to test your shopping cart under load or automate the login process, we have you covered! QA Wizard Pro includes built-in support for creating, retrieving, and using web cookies during load test playback. This video provides an overview of how to manage cookies within a load test script, including the specific commands needed to create and retrieve cookies during playback.

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When working with web applications that use things like session variables, you need to modify your load script to accommodate these dynamic values. To show you how this works, I will use a web application developed in ASP.Net  Many web applications created in ASP.Net use view state, which  is used to persist states across postbacks.

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Grab your lunch and join us on August 18 to learn more about data-driven testing with QA Wizard Pro. Risa Cohen, Seapine Solutions Consultant, will demonstrate how to effectively create, use, and maintain datasheets to build re-usable scripts and improve your testing efficiency.

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Risa will cover the following topics during this 30-minute training session:

* A brief overview of data-driven testing
* How to set up local and external datasheets
* Three different ways to access datasheets during playback and when to use each method

QA Wizard Pro scripts can be run unattended by saving them as batch script files and using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch them at a scheduled time. The Scheduled Task Wizard gives you the option of running the script once at a specified time, or on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. But what do you do if that doesn’t fit your schedule? Perhaps you would like to monitor a web site and ensure it is up and running by logging in once every hour. To set this up for a twenty-four hour period, you would need to schedule 24 separate tasks to run at a specified time – a time-consuming task in itself. If the launch time changes, you would need to go back and modify each of those tasks individually. A better idea is to create another QA Wizard Pro script that allows you to launch the batch script file at a time interval you choose, as well as capture additional information such as total number of times the batch script was run or the number of times the login test failed.

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Test-driven development (TDD) methodologies advocate writing unit tests before making your code functional. If you practice TDD, wouldn’t it be great if you could easily create user interface tests in addition to your unit tests?
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I built a domain-specific language (DSL) in my text editor so that I don’t have to remember all of the details involved in WordPress blogging. To write this article I type :save-as-blog-draft in vim, my text editor. I don’t have to mess with the details of logging into WordPress, picking a post to edit, and then manually pressing the Save Draft button. Setup took about an hour and by now I’ve blissfully forgotten the manual labor involved in blogging.
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I used to classify drag-and-drop as a “lipstick” feature–one that looked great during product demos but one that nobody actually used. So when I found out we were going to enhance QA Wizard Pro’s drag-and-drop capabilities for the 2010.0 release, I was skeptical. Fortunately, I was wrong.
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