I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
So I am sending a ton of email from PHP right now in the section of an app that I am writing.
I want to see the emails I am sending but I don’t want them sent. Sound familiar? Well, I found a tool that will take care of this situation. It [...]
Basically it consists of creating a profile for the other version to use and installing Firefox 3 to a different location. I modified the instructions a bit and installed FF3 as default and then installed FF2 (again) to an alternate location. I also set FF2 to use the newly created profile so I could transfer [...]
I came across this website which can produce screenshots of a webpage, simulating any browser on any OS, all you have to do is give it your URL. I have not verified the accuracy of the screenshots but it seems like a useful tool. The downside is that you have to uncheck all the ones [...]
While working on my JavaScript form field validator based on the Commons validator, I used JsUnit to do unit tests on my code.
"Unit tests for JavaScript?" you will say. "That’s overkill, I don’t need that," which is true for a lot of places we use JavaScript. But since I was working on a [...]
Writing Java code is often repetitive and tedious. IDEA can make parts of it easier with Live Templates. I think most people use the built-in ones regularly, but we don’t often write our own Live Templates. Here are a few templates that I have created, while writing a bunch of Struts Actions, [...]
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