Using Jenkins to Execute Tests Built with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT

Increasingly, I am seeing companies use Jenkins to execute tests for UFT and/or LeanFT, two automated testing tools from Micro Focus (formerly HPE) that can accelerate quality and release cycles compared to manual testing. This is a sensible approach, given that UFT and LeanFT, when run with Jenkins, can streamline the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.… Continue reading Using Jenkins to Execute Tests Built with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT

Use Test Data Automation to Hypercharge Test Execution

How do you get the data you use for testing? Do you find it? Create it? Request it? What if you only had to find it/create it/request it once? How easy would your life be? MUCH EASIER is the answer. So, finding it or having to create it isn’t easy. What if you switched over… Continue reading Use Test Data Automation to Hypercharge Test Execution

Using HP Performance Center’s Command Line to Create Environmentally Universal Scripts

On a recent assignment, I was tasked with updating and maintaining five scripts each for three applications across three environments (5 * 3 * 3 = 45). Additionally, each of these environments was scheduled to receive a three-phase upgrade. Each phase would require re-scripting of one group of scripts or another. As you can imagine,… Continue reading Using HP Performance Center’s Command Line to Create Environmentally Universal Scripts

Testing Peeple and Other Controversial Apps

Have you heard of Peeple? It’s a newly announced app that is described as “Yelp for people.” This post is not meant to pass judgement on the idea but simply to spit ball how you could test an app so tied to personality, judgement, and privacy. Controversy Testing a controversial application presents a unique challenge… Continue reading Testing Peeple and Other Controversial Apps

Data-Focused Test Strategy for New Data Warehouse

As part of a workshop discussion someone posed the following example to our group of test professionals and asked how we would solve the following problems. I am paraphrasing. How do we insure data quality and integrity at the application programming interface (API) level in the new data warehouse? Note that the solution below is… Continue reading Data-Focused Test Strategy for New Data Warehouse

The Challenges of Composite Architectures and How They Impact Testing

For complex software platforms, composite applications can be a much more efficient solution than the legacy approach involving loosely connected webs of applications, databases, and middleware. However, testing composite applications—which may need to interact successfully with 100, 1000 or more third-party components and the web services that connect them—is more complicated than testing a collection… Continue reading The Challenges of Composite Architectures and How They Impact Testing

Crowd Testing: Let Your Apps Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Despite its importance in the software development cycle, controlled lab testing can never identify all the issues that actual users might encounter. For mobile apps in particular, there are literally thousands of combinations of devices, operating systems and network conditions, making comprehensive testing of all scenarios impractical. Furthermore, because testers in the lab know what… Continue reading Crowd Testing: Let Your Apps Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Great Test Data Requests with Jira

Since 2011, I have been in too many projects and my main activities were to create, deliver and provide data from Grid-Tools Datamaker to the Testing team. All the communication flow was only by email to request different types of data such as new customers, new brands, materials and so on. The most common problem I had was… Continue reading Great Test Data Requests with Jira

Data Quality as an Initiative

If your business is capturing or coordinating persistent data as a primary function then it behooves you to create a data quality initiative that improves your Test Data Management (TDM). There are common opportunities in the way that IT organizations manage, coordinate and execute their processes around test data. The actual data are not securely… Continue reading Data Quality as an Initiative

Are Your Development and Testing Teams On the Same Page?

Traditionally, development and testing/QA teams have worked in isolation, with each group performing its respective tasks. Not only were they not on the same page, they weren’t even speaking the same language. Modern approaches such as Agile advocate for developers and testers to work in a more collaborative, closely synched environment. Companies that have achieved… Continue reading Are Your Development and Testing Teams On the Same Page?