Viva la Chipperfish » misc http://www.jrandolph.com/blog software development and testing Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Future of Web App Testing (and How to Stop It) http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:45 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=73 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 [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/feed/ 0 Creating GUIDs in Two Steps or Less http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:28:21 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/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 [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/feed/ 5 Testing — Mission Impossible? http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/04/testing-mission-impossible/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/04/testing-mission-impossible/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:18:31 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/04/a-quote-worth-repeating/ … 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/21/javascript-is-the-new-c/feed/ 7 “alert();” : 1995-2006 http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/01/alert-1995-2006/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/01/alert-1995-2006/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:28:08 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=40 May you rest in peace.

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/01/alert-1995-2006/feed/ 2 “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/06/11/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/06/11/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/#comments Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:57:26 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=33 Apparently, a few folks in Guantanamo Bay, took the Patrick Henry Challenge.

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/06/11/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/feed/ 1 Web 2.0 and the New New e-Economy http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:36:41 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=19 Friend: “This site, 7dots.com, reminded me of your hilarious blog post about 42nouns.com. Maybe these guys read your post, too, and decided to act quickly so they can beat you to the punch :-)”

JH: “Nice one… I think all this “<integer><noun>.com” nonsense is the new ‘eBusiness’ (<thelettere><noun> in Backus Naur Form). The only real [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/feed/ 2 Save NPR, cut Big Bird. http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/06/22/save-npr-cut-big-bird/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/06/22/save-npr-cut-big-bird/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:33:41 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=4 Regarding the pending cancellation of PBS funding for children’s shows like Sesame Street… and the fight to save them…

Kids shouldn’t even be watching television… cut the public funding of those shows, go outside and play in the yard with your child.

I have a 1 year old son, and he doesn’t watch TV– we don’t [...]

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