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Thoughts on testing, software test automation and software demonstrations.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Getting Started with Automation

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Every so often I’ll see posts on message boards like this: I need to automate tests, what tool should I use?  And unfortunately, that’...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Helpful Tool: PasteCopy

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Often when I'm giving demos, I'll need to type in a sentence or two into a text field. This is no big deal, I can type pretty fast, ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Alchemy, Not Magic

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I once had a conversation with a tester that went something like this - "We need the automation to be able to recover from errors. I do...
Friday, August 20, 2010

The Julia Child Approach to Demos

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When you're giving live demos, it's always handy to have everything you need for that demo ready to go. Have powerpoint already load...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Automate in Straight Lines

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Everyone's heard the adage "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line." This holds true in test automation a...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

MS Office Automation

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I've worked with a lot of people who have wanted to automate MS Office apps. Sometimes they're trying to just write results data out...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Silver Bullets and Snake Oil

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After doing test automation for most of my professional life, I'm really tired of vendors claiming that automation is a silver bullet. I...
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Nick Olivo
I'm an SE, an automated tester and a tech writer rolled into one.
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