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December 2005 Tool: ForceWindowVisible tool

ToolsForceWindowVisible tool

A small free tool derived from sHideWin for forcing the display of hidden windows, even if they are off the screen.

March 2005 Essay: Excel For Test Data Generation

EssaysExcel For Test Data Generation

MS Excel, and spreadsheets in general, are the testers friend. I have written up some notes about how to use Excel and VBA to generate test data.

Start getting your test data under control

March 2005 Book Review: I Am a Bug

Book ReviewsI Am a Bug
5/5

The only book, aimed at children (of all ages), to explain testing. Are you Adult enough to enjoy it?.

Find Out Here

March 2005 Essay: Context Driven Testing, A Personal View

EssaysContext Driven Testing, A Personal View

This is the supporting page for a talk that I first gave at the North London British Computer Society in March 2005.

I wanted to explore what I thought about Context Driven, how context driven I am, and what I think it means to be context driven.

Paper and Presentations here

Feb 2005 Essay: Descriptive Words Aid Testing

EssaysDescriptive Words Aid Testing

Words, and how they affect cognition, perception, state and action, interest me. I wanted to experiment with a less linear and more diagrammatic communication format, so... I thought, and I drew, and I experimented, and I turned a textual blog entry into a single page of diagrams and boxed out text.

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July 2004 Essay: NLP For Testers, A Brief Introduction

EssaysNLP For Testers, A Brief Introduction

This is the supporting page for a talk that I first gave at the London Special Interest Group in Software Testing in June 2004.

NLP is a topic that I have found fascinating for a number of years now, and I use it to help me understand what it is I do when I test software. The supporting paper provides an introduction to the NLP Meta Model and some observations on how it affects my thinking about Software Testing.

Quickly add some NLP to your testing here

April 2004 Case study: Generate www news and rss feeds

Compendium-TAGenerate www news and rss feeds

This Compendium-TA case study documents the use of Compendium-TA to maintain, generate and upload the news information and rss feeds on this site. [pdf] or [html]

All the required VB Script and documentation is available for download (as zip or self extracting .exe)so you can use Compendium-TA as a simple blog and web news system.

And as an extra bonus, read the tips on generating svg graphs from Compendium-TA generated wmf files [html][pdf]

March 2004 Essay: Alternative Test Tools In Action

EssaysAlternative Test Tools In Action

I went through a process of self-evaluation to understand better how I test, how I think about testing and the tools I use. This paper discusses the tool strategies I use and is an introduction to the world of free and cheap tools available to help us do testing.

See cheap and free tools in action now.

December 2003 Essay: Be a Better Tester, Be a Beta Tester

EssaysBe a Better Tester, Be a Beta Tester

In December of 2003 I went to EuroStar, presented "Be a Better Tester, Be a Beta Tester" where I expounded the benefits of downloading software off the internet and testing it. The accompanying paper lists a whole bunch of tools and web sites that can be used and describes the approaches and motivations for doing this. Beta Testing is something that I have gained a lot from so I always encourage other people to do it.

Now Read it and get beta testing.

20/10/2003 Essay: Tom Gilb Competitive Engineering Course Review

EssaysTom Gilb Competitive Engineering Course Review

In September of 2003 I attended courses conducted by Tom Gilb based on the work presented in his Competitive Engineering book. There was a lot of useful information on these courses that relate to testing and this is a short write up of the courses and some of the basic principles of Competitive Engineering.

Read it now.

19/6/2003 Essay: Practical Experiences in Graph Based Testing

EssaysPractical Experiences in Graph Based Testing

I went off to StarEAST 2003 and spoke about my experiences with graph based testing, the tools I use and the models of testing that I have built up in order to conceptualise a context within which graph based testing can work.

The paper also looks at how higher level models can help reduce the work involved in manual scripting.

Read it here now.

21/8/2002 Book Review: Lessons Learned in Software Testing

Book ReviewsLessons Learned in Software Testing
5/5

Most of us learn lessons the hard way, and books which can help us avoid that are welcome. After reading this you may want to learn some memory improvement techniques - or just carry the book around with you, whatever works for you.

...Being suited for Stichomancy is not the best prerequisite for a sit down and read sequentially book reading strategy. It is however a very good prerequisite for a long lasting, dip in and out book. These are very good volumes to remind you of concepts, techniques and to give you pause to catch your breath during times of pressure...

Learn some lessons.

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Moved to WordPress

I have started to move the site over to WordPress, starting with the blog entries and during the conversion process I remembered to re-learn a little bit about SQL.

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General Semantics Videos and Keynotes

The Institute of General Semantics has released some items from the vaults: Audio and Video Materials including contributions from Robert Anton Wilson, Wendell Johnson, Alfred Fleishman, and Irving Lee Transcripts and recordings from the Korzybski Memorial Lectures and more…

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3 Free multi monitor utils

3 free utilities for a multi monitor setup: multimon taskswitchxp force window visible

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Testing with Perl and Maxivista

Maxivista has been updated to version 3 Gabor Szabo posted an early version of his Perl in Test Automation course on the Perl GUI Test Yahoo Mailing List

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A few links from my inbox

An eclectic list of links that I left in my inbox for too long: An article on Static Analysis from Dr Dobbs Articles on packet sniffing with WireShark Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages Openclipart.com list of SVG tools 2 freeware MS Excel Plugins: Extools and Asap Utilities

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But why use AutoIt?

There are many reasons why I am writing about AutoIt and not Perl or Ruby as a mechanism for free GUI test automation on windows. Here I have listed just 5 of them, and I know that some people are going to look at the list and think that what I am touting as a [...]

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Simple Monkey Tester Annotated

I’m annotating the mokey tester code that I posted yesterday with even more comments for those people that are new to AutoIt and perhaps didn’t understand what the code was doing.

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Watch this Essential SysInternals Video

SysInternals have released a free .wmv video file showing all their tools in action. Essential viewing. Read on for a short content review.

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