Archive for the 'Tools' Category

BlueHost rocks - my six month review

Posted: Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Categories: Tools

When I started getting interested in building out some properties online, I realized my basic web host wasn’t going to cut it. I was confined to 400mb of space and could only support a few domains without stepping up to a significantly more expensive hosting package. I switched over to BlueHost.com as my […]

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Covering the basics - testing web pages for common problems

Posted: Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Categories: Automated Testing, Tools

This post is part advice and part shameless promotion. I work in the software industry and test large-scale enterprise websites on a daily basis. In both my personal and professional browsing, I’m constantly amazed at the common errors I find on websites of all sizes. I recently tried to download some motherboard spec’s on the […]

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Performance Testing with jMeter

Posted: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Categories: Automated Testing, Tools

After listening to an excellent presentation on Performance Testing with Open Source Tools put on by Goranka Bjedov of Google for the Google London Test Automation Conference (available on Google Video), I decided to take a peek at jMeter. I’d used it briefly in the past, but didn’t have a huge use for it […]

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Your test suite is not flexible - get agile with FIT

Posted: Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Categories: Agile, Automated Testing, Tools

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 […]

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