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'misc' Category

• Oct

  09

  2009

  The Future of Web App Testing (and How to Stop It)

  At the May 28th meeting of the Chicago JavaScript Meetup, I gave the following presentation on trends in web development, and how it’ll affect testing.

  The talk’s titled “The Future of Web App Testing and How to Stop It”. The first part was a brief history of the Selenium project. In the second part, I talked [...]

  posted in chicago, javascript, misc, selenium by Jason Huggins

• Apr

  23

  2008

  Creating GUIDs in Two Steps or Less

  If you happen to find yourself needing to create a GUID for your brand new C# program, a Google search for “Create GUID” is the first reasonable thing you might do. Here’s my summary after doing the same… First off, in the “Truth in Advertising” department, the best link from the top 10 was “The Quick [...]

  posted in misc by Jason Huggins

• Apr

  04

  2008

  Testing — Mission Impossible?

  … test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to reverse-engineer existing software and automate tests against an untestable UI using proprietary tools accessible only to a few select team members is guaranteed to be incredibly expensive both to create and to maintain, and also ridiculously fragile.

  People still do that?! :-) No [...]

  posted in misc by Jason Huggins

• Jul

  21

  2006

  JavaScript is the new C

  A thread came up last week about JavaScript on the Rudolph Hering Society list. I promised to repost my thoughts as a blog post for a larger audience to dissect.

  posted in misc by Jason Huggins

• Jul

  01

  2006

  “alert();” : 1995-2006

  May you rest in peace.

  posted in misc by Jason Huggins