The Seapine View

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

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for the QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn event. Jeff Amfahr, director of product management, demonstrated the new load testing capabilities in QA Wizard Pro 2010.2. If you’re interested in trying out the load testing features, or QA Wizard Pro in general, please join the QA Wizard Pro Beta program today!

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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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Web pages often include HTML elements that are not visible to the user. The web browser doesn’t render the elements on the screen, but it often includes their data in the GET and POST requests to the web server. The classic example is an INPUT element of type “hidden” used to embed name/value pairs. But any HTML element might have important attributes that you need to verify.

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QA Wizard Pro 2010.2 is coming later this summer and the big news is the addition of load testing! Want to learn more? Join us on July 21 for our next Lunch and Learn webinar. Jeff Amfahr, director of product management, will be demonstrating the new load testing capabilities and providing information on how you can join the beta after the event.

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Learn how to get started with load testing in QA Wizard Pro 2010.2:

• Recording and playing back load testing scripts
• Specifying virtual user counts
• Distributing playback across your network
• Reporting on load and performance results

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for the first session in our QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn series. The recording is now available if you missed the training session or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session is also available.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for the first session in our QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn series. The recording is now available if you missed the training session or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session is below.

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If you’re new to QA Wizard Pro, or struggling to create scripts that reliably find and test controls, consider joining us in two weeks for a 30-minute “Understanding QA Wizard Pro Control Properties” webinar.

Register for Wednesday, June 30 at 1 pm EDT

Register for Thursday, July 1 at 10 am EDT (2 pm GMT)

Learn how to make the most of control properties to better identify and test controls:

• An explanation of control properties
• How to set up and use repository variables
• Guidelines for picking the best control properties
• How to more reliably find and validate controls with XPath and functions

Whether you’re new to QA Wizard Pro and need to learn the basics of checkpoints, or you’re looking to optimize your checkpoint usage, please join us on Wednesday, June 9th at 1:00 PM EDT (10:00 AM PDT) for a 30-minute ‘Improving Playback Verification with Checkpoints’ webinar. You’ll learn how checkpoints can help you better test images, control properties, and other objects during playback.

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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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