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Automated testing

  • 19-12-2005 5:03pm
    #1
    patchouli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    I am currently looking for a job in testing, but I have no prior experience of automated testing which seems to be a requirement of most companies. Does anyone have any links to where I could learn more about it? I have heard that it's not difficult to learn, but I just don't know where's the best place to begin. Thanks for any advice.


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  • #2
    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    What is automated testing?


  • #3
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    patchouli wrote:
    I am currently looking for a job in testing, but I have no prior experience of automated testing which seems to be a requirement of most companies. Does anyone have any links to where I could learn more about it? I have heard that it's not difficult to learn, but I just don't know where's the best place to begin. Thanks for any advice.

    Learn C or Java. Most automated testing is scripted in languagues that are derived from one or the other of these. Particularly, know how to deal with string manipulation.


  • #4
    Stark
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    Winrunner, Silk and Junit are 3 automated testing technologies that I could think of offhand. Junit is used for unit testing of Java classes. Winrunner and Silk are for automated GUI testing.

    This site looks like it could give you somewhere to start from: http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa/


  • #5
    kyote00
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    There are loads of books on the subject on Amazon --- note the tool is only about 10% of the solution --- you also will need to know when and how to use the tools sensibly and to be able to select the best approach for the application under test.

    The are many (many many many) websites out there, three of the more respected in the industry are:

    http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa/
    http://www.satisfice.com/
    http://www.kaner.com/


  • #6
    finlma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭finlma


    I started a job a few months ago as a test automation engineer and I had no previous experience - its pretty easy though. We use an IBM tool called Rational Robot. A lot of the work is recording and playback but the scripts then have to be manipulated. The code is much like Visual Basic.
    Most companies use the Test Director products for test automation.

    Hope this helps.


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  • #7
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    Eugh - Rational Robot's fecking awful. The most powerful one out there, certainly for web applications anyway, is Mercury Loadrunner. But the Test Centre for it, or whatever they call it, is rather expensive, about €300 per vuser license AFAIK...


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