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Entries for January, 2007

Automated Testing with Perl

Jan.30, 2007 in Automated Testing, Perl 7 Comments

If you are a software tester or Quality Assurance Engineer testing any sort of product with a web interface and you aren’t using Perl to automate your testing, you are missing out. Perl is a simple, fast, powerful scripting language that has a ton of free modules available to ease your job as a tester.
I [...]

Your test suite is not flexible – get agile with FIT

Jan.27, 2007 in Agile, Automated Testing, Tools 3 Comments

If you haven’t heard of FIT yet, you need to know about it. FIT is an open source framework that allows you to add and execute complex tests from a simple web interface.
The requirements of FIT are pretty basic.
- You need Apache installed on the machine
- You need to be able to edit httpd.conf to give [...]

  

Web Testing with Perl

This blog started out as a general scratch pad for software testing discussions and new automation technologies. Over time, its turned into a resource for perl testers. If you're using perl for software testing and would like to contribute an article, please leave a comment with your email and I'll get in touch!