AutomatedQA is happy to announce that we now offer live online training for beginners who do not know scripting or are new to TestComplete, our award-winning automated testing tool. This live online training will be broadcast by Falafel Training and will take you through TestComplete's full set of tools for test automation and illustrates how to create Keyword-Driven Tests for automation; including Windows client, Web client, database access, HTTP performance testing, best practices and a lot more.

You can find more information and the course outline on the AutomatedQA Website.

Sign up for our Beginner TestComplete Live Online Training today for only $499!

Yesterday I encountered a blog post in which the author shares his experience of using treadmills when coding. He claims low physical activity helps him keep focused on tasks. The idea of combining walking and coding looks rather amusing. Enjoy:

http://blog.8thlight.com/articles/2010/2/25/walk-and-code

I wonder if anyone creates automated tests this way? :-)

We’ve added a new How To section to our online Support Portal! -- 
http://www.automatedqa.com/support/

This section will provide solutions and tips for common tasks related to using our products. For instance, right now you can learn how to perform the following tasks with TestComplete: 

• download a file from the Internet
• verify whether a web link is available
• create and drop SQL databases
• manipulate display settings
• put your computer to the Hibernate or Standby mode
• validate a Start menu shortcut
• and much more…

The samples collection will be regularly updated, so keep an eye on our Forums and Blogs – we will announce the updates there. 

If you are missing a solution for a common task, drop us a line - we will add your request to the How To update schedule and deliver the sample as soon as we can. 

Enjoy the new section and send us your feedback!

Many tests are positive: they check that an application accepts valid data and processes it correctly. A negative test checks whether the application handles improper user behavior correctly. For instance, a positive test would be to open the File | Save As dialog in a text editor, enter a valid file name and then confirm the file was saved successfully. A negative test would be to open the File | Save As dialog, enter an invalid file name or path and check whether the application handles this invalid input data properly. If a developer has not anticipated this situation, the application will crash. So, it's important to use both positive and negative testing approaches when testing your application.

We’ve published an article that discusses negative testing concepts, typical negative test cases and how negative tests can be created with TestComplete. Enjoy!

Negative Testing With TestComplete »

 

Cloud computing and cloud testing are gaining popularity in small and mid-size software companies. These technologies allow you to use almost unlimited computing resources to test your web, client/server and network applications. We decided to publish a series of articles discussing cloud testing and describing how to use TestComplete for this. Here is the first article in the series:

Cloud Testing With TestComplete »

Enjoy reading!

Today we would like to tell you about one more useful website devoted to AutomatedQA products, Falafel TV, which was launched about 6 months ago by our partners and friends from Falafel. This website is dedicated entirely to online video training. By now more than 15 screencasts on TestComplete have been posted there. They illustrate how you can maximize the effective use of TestComplete and how its features can help you easily and thoroughly perform automated software and web testing.

Falafel TV is one more example of AutomatedQA and Falafel partnership. The two companies hold regular trainings that provide users with knowledge and skills to be productive in testing applications with TestComplete.

We hope that Falafel TV will be a good addition to our Screencast and Videos section that already contains screencasts on TestComplete and other products.

You'll find a full list of TestComplete videos at Falafel TV.

A new AQtime 6.30 review was recently posted to the Our Craft blog. The author, danielmeyer, shares his experience of using AQtime when performing C++ code coverage testing. He has never used AQtime before, so the post contains his first impression of AQtime’s Coverage Profiler along with step-by-step description of his actions.

You can read the full post at ourcraft.wordpress.com

Another web-related technical paper was published - Cross-Browser Testing With TestComplete. This article tells how to organize a cross-browser testing with TestComplete and contains recomendations on creating tests that will work in any supported browser. Enjoy reading and testing.

We've enhanced the AQA Support section. Check it out and you'll find updated FAQs, online help for all AQA products and an improved search engine. The search results now contain a new tab, Support Portal, that lists FAQ and online help pages that match your query. Like all things on the web, this is not the final version. We've got big plans for the future. Please let us know how the new support features work for you and stay tuned for more!

A new technical paper has just been published – Web Testing and Tabbed Browsers. The article describes how the page tabs are implemented in most popular browsers (Internet Explorer 7-8, Firefox 2-3), and provides code snippets that demonstrate how to perform typical tab-related tasks. We hope this information will help you create reliable and flexible web tests.