Bugs'a'loud.lt - QA gathering in Vilnius, October 4th
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Retrofitting testing - what is it?
It is nice to meet new terms and keywords relating testing. This morning I got a question how I am planning to do 'regression as part of Code Retrofitting testing'. Have never heard of retrofitting testing before, so did some googling. The best explanation I found was on blog http://blog.intrepidtesting.com/retrofit-vs-retest-vs-regression-testing/ article " Retrofit vs Retest vs Regression Testing " : Retrofit testing is carried to to test that a change in functionality is correctly implemented for existing entities. Retrofit testing is more commonly carried out when you have an incremental project, or change requests. If the time available to test is tight, retesting and retrofit testing usually takes a higher priority over regression testing Colleague's comment while trying to help me: " if I googled it correctly then they expect you to perform regression for legacy system where your changes were introduced. In this way I would ...
Security testing
My previous employer organised internal security training for QAs. As coming not from development background, they were good, but too tough for me. There is really good free resource on pluralsight.com by Troy Hunt " Hack yourself first ". It is declared for developers to deepen their knowledge of security. Myself I found it really cool as the author explains everything clearly with good examples.
still alive and useful - Selenium IDE
There was time, when I found out about Selenium IDE, simple add-on for Firefox and used it for a while. Had issues with long tests, questions splitting workflow into some pieces, manage page loads, introduce sleeps.. Cool thing for manual tester. Then webdriver was introduced, IDE was considered a bad thing in my group :) Starting working in new project and still having only few screens with mocked data for a few weeks. That means re-clicking every button for regression, or giving health-check clicks that both environments are still ok or are again ok to use. To set up custom project with web-driver seemed too many efforts - and the selenium is so cool again! Half an hour of work (ok, maybe an hour) and clicking buttons for me in slow run mode :)
Gremlin: UI fuzz testing tool (TODO list)
Adding Gremlin to my TODO list to install and explore. Colleague was happy about its non stop clicking abilities :)