What Software Test Automation Can Do But Humans Testers Can’t

I was reviewing the Apache JMeter book by PACKT publishing (nice book, will publish the full review soon) and came across a common misunderstanding in software testers about test automation. Full article (455 words) »

9 Important Tips for Selenium Remote Control (Java client) - Test Tool

Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in many programming languages against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser. Selenium RC is a powerful and simple framework for running (scheduled or manually) automated UI centric regression tests for web applications / services. Here are few simple tips for Selenium RC java client. I used JUnit for tests. You can use NGUnit too.

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5 Golden Tips For WordPress Performance Optimization / Slashdot-Digg Protection

WordPress is a popular blogging software. As a design decision it stores the blog content in database and uses php to fetch and display the pages. This consumes more resources (cpu and memory) than blogging softwares generating static pages. Here are 5 tried and tested power tips to reduce memory & cpu resources and speed up your wordpress based sites.

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OpenSTA, Load & Stress Testing Tool, Alternatives on Linux

In our effort to fully switchover to Linux as Desktop and Server environment, one of the biggest challenges is to find an alternative to OpenSTA, a popular and very capable open source distributed software testing tool for regression, load and stress testing. In other words OpenSTA is poor man's alternative to LoadRunner & Silk.

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