The new QA Insight theme?
0A rough draft of the new QA Insight WordPress theme! Thoughts?
A rough draft of the new QA Insight WordPress theme! Thoughts?
If you’re interested in attending Starwest 2012 (September 30-October 5) this year but haven’t pulled the trigger yet, you are in luck! On type of early bird pricing (which ends on 08/03/2012) you can now use the discount code of “SPWS” to get an extra $200 off. That’s a grand total of $600 off! I hope to see you there… I’ve put a lot of time and effort into my cloud testing talk. Come check it out on Wednesday 10/03 : Beyond the Silver Lining: Testing Go Daddy’s Cloud
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Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve moved from DasBlog to WordPress, which means moving QAInsight.net from the server in my office closet to being hosted at GoDaddy.com. Conversion was pretty straight forward:
The whole port 8080 thing I had going on… those links aren’t going to resolve anymore since I’m doing shared hosting and have no control over the ports (in order to forward). Lesson learned, it is what it is.
Now it’s time to create a new QA Insight WordPress theme! HTML5 & CSS3 here I come.
Hey there! I’m still part of your feed? It’s been a while my friend.
As I prepare to speak at StarWest this year, I’m reminded by my bio that “Brent enjoys blogging and cartooning about his QA, testing, and development experiences on QAInsight.net“. Though I haven’t blogged in quite some time, I truly still do love writing here, but things change & priorities change. I have 5 good reason why this blog has “gone dry”. Alright some are reasons, some are excuses. Here goes:
So, that with said, rest in comfort knowing that I’m still alive, doing better than ever, and still fighting the good fight (Testing & Quality). Please look forward to a summary post talking about what I’ve been doing at Go Daddy in the last 2 years. Hopefully there will be more to follow once this blog is converted to a hosted WordPress account. Until then.
Overview
In this screencast I walk you through doing basic browser setup and automation using a free technology stack: Visual Studio 2010 Express, the WebAii Testing Framework from Telerik, C#, and MbUnit/Gallio. Why this stack you ask? Well, what I’m showing you is a FREE, non-trial, stepping stone to help you do a proof a concept with some leading edge tools in .NET without forking out the money.
One thing that we struggle with in our department is helping those who are interested in doing automation explore the possibility while aligning with technologies the development team is using. The problem is the initial cost of Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Telerik’s WebUi Test Studio (which uses the WebAii API) is far to much for somebody that is just tinkering (greater than $5000). This technology stack enables you to tinker, but keep in mind you will be missing out on a LOT of features and productivity enablers that come with the product that you pay for. For example with WebUi Test Studio Developer Edition you can get Visual Studio integration which gives recording functionality (a huge productivity enabler) and with Visual Studio Pro the ability to use WebUI project templates, advanced debugging, etc. Ideally, once you’ve proven out your POC for management you would be able to solicit for the funds for the full product, which in turn would open up another world of collaboration and productivity.
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The Software Testing Club has done it again! Their quarterly “print”, has been redone and now we have “The Testing Planet” as a newspaper! I just got mine in the mail the other day, and I have to say it’s pretty dang unique, informative and fun. You too can buy your own Printed Copy, but if you can’t find it within yourself to go old school and read the printed paper, you can download it for free here. You should probably buy a copy for safe keeping though, because it contains two of the worlds best QA comics: Cartoon Tester and Do Loop Until 0. Which makes the paper INVALUABLE!
Go Daddy’s Hosting R&D department is looking to hire a Software Automation Engineer/SDET. Check out the job posting here. This is an awesome opportunity my QA friend. Let me tell you why:
You know you want to! Apply here.