From fcohen at pushtotest.com Mon Feb 4 18:47:39 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Mon Feb 4 19:31:15 2008 Subject: [Dev] February 2008 Newsletter now available Message-ID: <834E6636-1A81-4327-9CCE-D646BC0BA221@pushtotest.com> Hi TestMaker Developers: In case you are not subscribed to the announcement list, below is the latest newsletter for your reading pleasure. -Frank -- February 4, 2008 The PushToTest Newsletter - 3-Day Test Automation Bootcamp, Silicon Valley - eviware and PushToTest Announce Partnership - PushToTest 5.1 Release Candidate Now Available - Roadmap To PushToTest 6 Now Available - New White Paper and 2-Page Brochure Available - Frank Cohen at TheServerSide.com Java Symposium *---------------------------------------------- - Hands-On Test Automation Bootcamp, February 26-28, 2008 Back by popular demand is the Test Automation Bootcamp, a 3-day hands- on course offered by PushToTest in Silicon Valley, California on February 26-28, 2008. Learn how to use Open-Source test tools, including: soapUI Selenium PushToTest Get hands-on training to test Web applications, Web services, Ajax, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and REST applications. The Seminar teaches practical methodology and techniques to surface performance bottlenecks and optimizations to improve scalability and throughput. The Test Automation Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, three-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Software Architects, QA Testers, IT managers, and Web professionals how to build high-quality software using test automation from beginning to end. Bootcamp instructors Frank Cohen and Robert Schneider are the leading authorities and teachers for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. PushToTest has 2 more seats at a special discount price. Please call Betty Chin at (408) 871-8255 or send email to betty@pushtotest.com for details. http://bootcamp.pushtotest.com Academic Scholarships Available PushToTest has 1 more Academic Scholarship available for the Bootcamp. If you are a student or teacher and would like to attend the Test Automation Bootcamp please contact us at: http://www.pushtotest.com/ask_a_question http://bootcamp.pushtotest.com *---------------------------------------------- - eviware and PushToTest Announce Partnership Eviware, the soapUI company, and PushToTest announced a new partnership to build advanced integration between soapUI Pro and PushToTest and to sell and support test automation solutions in the USA and Canadian marketplaces. The partnership delivers solutions to enterprises that are challenged to surface performance and scalability issues with load and performance test automation, regression test automation, and business service monitoring solutions. Many mid-size and large enterprises use soapUI to read Web Service Description Language (WSDL) documents and in a few clicks of the mouse write a multi-step test suite. PushToTest runs these tests in a test lab of 10 servers to generate 2,000 concurrently running test suites. PushToTest results analysis reports then show an application environment's scalability index to help plan for hardware purchases and network bandwidth needs and find the root cause to performance problems. PushToTest then repurposes soapUI tests into Business Service Monitors (BSM) with no additional programming. Under the agreement Eviware and PushToTest intend to deliver: - Advanced integration for Web Service test automation. While PushToTest version 5 currently integrates and bundles soapUI 2, Eviware and PushToTest will build deeper integration to provide support for Mock Services (virtualized services for testing,) advanced reporting for soapUI test suites, and Repository and Scheduler functions for soapUI test suites into upcoming product releases. - PushToTest to build Eclipse plug-in with advanced integration with soapUI Eclipse Plug-in. Complete details are found in a press release at: http://downloads.pushtotest.com/news/Eviware_PushToTest_PressRelease.pdf Additionally, PushToTest launched a new section of its Web site devoted to soapUI users at: http://soapui.pushtotest.com *---------------------------------------------- - TestMaker 5.1 Release Candidate Now Available The PushToTest TestMaker developer team is almost finished with TestMaker 5.1. The new software offers an outstanding 47 bug fixes and enhancements! This makes it one of biggest releases ever. TestMaker 5.1 Release Candidate 1 is available at the PushToTest Web site at: http://www.pushtotest.com/Downloads/tmdownloadfiles Everyday we are fixing bugs and adding enhancements. To see the most current list of open issues for TestMaker 5.1 browse this URL: http://bugs.pushtotest.com/query?version=5.1&order=priority Please request a bug tracking user account to open new tickets of your own at http://www.pushtotest.com/ask_a_question We will send a special announcement email when the final TestMaker 5.1 is available for download. In the meantime, our cvs.pushtotest.com server already makes the updates available to you today in the tm5 project. *---------------------------------------------- - Product Roadmap to PushToTest Version 6 Now Available PushToTest is on the path to deliver state-of-the-art open-source test automation technology. PushToTest uses Trac to follow bugs and enhancements. A special new report shows the new features and bug fixes that are planned from one-version-to-the-next, including PushToTest Version 6. See the report at the following URL: http://bugs.pushtotest.com/query? groupdesc=1&group=version&order=priority *---------------------------------------------- - New PushToTest White Paper and 2-Page Brochure Available Want to learn more about PushToTest and open-source test automation? New datasheet and white paper downloads are available at: PushToTest 2-Page DataSheet http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/PushToTest_TestMaker5_Datasheet.pdf PushToTest White Paper: The Importance of Test Automation http://downloads.pushtotest.com/PushToTest_WhitePaper.pdf Both are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. *---------------------------------------------- - Frank Cohen at TheServerSide.com Java Symposium TheServerSide.com ? the heart of the on-line Java developer community ? will feature Frank Cohen, CEO and Founder at PushToTest, with two sessions on test automation topics at TheServerSide Java Symposium. The Symposium is on March 26-28 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unit Testing in Java http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/lasvegas/ languagescoding.html#FCohenUnit Dynamic Scripting in Java http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/lasvegas/advisory- board.html#FCohenScript The complete day-at-a-glance schedule is found at: http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/lasvegas/caag.html -- Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 TestMaker open-source test automation -- Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 TestMaker open-source test automation From fcohen at pushtotest.com Wed Feb 6 14:09:16 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Wed Feb 6 14:53:19 2008 Subject: [Dev] Mercury Quality Center and PushToTest Message-ID: Hi PushToTest Developers: We would like to do some research to make PushToTest and soapUI more compatible and possibly integrated with Mercury Quality Center. If you have opinions, ideas, or advice for us then please let me know. We would ideally like to get your thoughts on how our products would benefit MQC users. -Frank -- Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 TestMaker open-source test automation From fcohen at pushtotest.com Mon Feb 11 16:29:01 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Mon Feb 11 17:14:05 2008 Subject: [Dev] Subversion coming soon Message-ID: <5010D954-4D87-448C-B24C-7FE821A676F3@pushtotest.com> Dear PushToTest Developers: We are upgrading our source code repository to use subversion (svn.) The new service should be up in the next day or two. Please let me know if you are interested in testing the migration. Thanks. -Frank -- Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 PushToTest, the open-source test automation company From fcohen at pushtotest.com Mon Feb 18 14:22:00 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Mon Feb 18 15:09:06 2008 Subject: [Dev] Test Automation Bootcamp scholarship available Message-ID: Hi TestMaker Developers: Next week PushToTest will host the popular Test Automation Bootcamp, a 3-day hands-on course in Silicon Valley, California on February 26-28, 2008. I have 1 more Academic Scholarship available to the Bootcamp. If you would like to attend the Test Automation Bootcamp under our free scholarships please complete the registration form at http://bootcamp.pushtotest.com *------------------------------------------------------ * Test Automation Bootcamp Syllabus Module 1. Quality Engineering Process Fundamentals * Continuous Test Engineering Patterns * Integrating Test Automation Into Your Environment * Scheduling, Resources, and Test Operations * What To Do With The Results Module 2. Test Planning, Strategy, Patterns * Types of Testing * Unit Tests * Object Level Unit Testing (Using JUnit) * Service Level Unit Testing (Using Enhanced Unit Tests) * Functional Testing * Smoke Testing (Using Functional Unit TestSuite) * Regression Testing * Load and Performance Testing * Understanding the results (Analyzing the Scalability Index) * Calibration Tests to identify test environment capacity * Business Service Monitoring * Method to repurpose tests as service monitors * Logging strategies to prove Service Level Agreements (SLAs) * Designing BSMs to operate within production environments Module 3. Model Driven Testing * Defining User Archetypes * Turning User Archetypes into Functional Unit Tests * User Goal Oriented Testing (UGOT) Techniques * Operating a Model Driven Test * Data Driven Testing * Defining a data model * System service dependencies * Designing A Multiple TestNode Test * Hands-On Data Driven Test (Web Application Test using MySQL) * Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Testing * Understanding the SOA Model * Designing Consumer/Service/Broker Tests * Protocols, Message Formats, Business Flows, Deployment * Modern Web Application Testing * Understanding the Web Model (HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, JSON, Ajax) * Designing Ajax Tests * Data Formats (String, XML, JSON,) Protocols, and Components * Results Analysis * Root Cause Analysis using Step Value Reporting * Top 10 Results Charts * Turning Results Charts Into Actionable Knowledge * Choosing The Right Test Design * Record/Playback * Mocking The Browser * Running Code In The Client (Ajax) Module 4. Putting The Tools To Work Section A. soapUI for SOAP-based Web Services * Installation * Top Use Patterns for soapUI * Basic's of WSDL * Hands-On With eBay Web Services * Basic Auction Search (Basic SOAP requests from WSDL definitions, Custom SOAP headers, using property file data) * Verifying Products from a Auction Search (Multi-step SOAP operations with data sharing between requests and responsses) * Negative Testing and Counting Auction Search Results * Mock Services (Virtualized Services) * Create a mock service * Dynamic response based on request data Section B. TesgGen4Web for Web and Ajax Applications * Installation * Top Use Patterns for TestGen4Web * Transforming to Jython * Transforming To Java * Firefox and XPath Dependencies Section C. Selenium for Web and Ajax Applications * Installation * Top Use Patterns for Selenium * Browser Dependencies * The Selenese Language * Selenium IDE * Transforming Selenese to Java, Jython Unit Tests * Operating Distributed Tests in Selenium * Top Mistakes Made in Selenium Section D. PushToTest TestMaker v5.1 * Installation * Top Use Patterns for PushToTest * Results Analysis * Enhanced Results Analysis Engine (v5.2) * PushToTest As A Service * Integration with SOA Repository/Registry for Test Governance * TestScenario Definition for Test Orchestration * Transformation Utilities (Java and Jython) * PTTMonitor for Correlating Resource Usage During Tests * Distributed Test Environment Deployment Patterns Module 5. Integrating Test Tools Into Your Environment * Lifecycle Management Platforms (Maven, Governance, Ant) * Command-line Operations Module 6. Supporting Technology To Effectively Build Tests * SOAP Stacks (Apache Axis, XFire) * XML Parsers (JDOM, StAX, DOM) * Message Exchange Systems (ESB, JMS, Message Queues, Event Processors) Module 7. How and Where To Get Help After The Bootcamp * Resources Available To You * Thought Leader Contacts * The Top 10 Ways To Get Support *------------------------------------------------------ * About The Bootcamp Learn how to use Open-Source test tools, including: soapUI Selenium PushToTest Get hands-on training to test Web applications, Web services, Ajax, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and REST applications. The Seminar teaches practical methodology and techniques to surface performance bottlenecks and optimizations to improve scalability and throughput. The Test Automation Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, three-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Software Architects, QA Testers, IT managers, and Web professionals how to build high-quality software using test automation from beginning to end. Bootcamp instructors Frank Cohen and Robert Schneider are the leading authorities and teachers for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. PushToTest has 2 more seats at a special discount price. Please call Betty Chin at (408) 871-8255 or send email to betty@pushtotest.com for details. http://bootcamp.pushtotest.com -- Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 PushToTest, the open-source test automation company -- Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 PushToTest, the open-source test automation company From fcohen at pushtotest.com Tue Feb 19 16:35:36 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Tue Feb 19 17:22:35 2008 Subject: [Dev] Selenium user meeting on Monday Message-ID: The Selenium founders are organizing a user meeting at Google's Mountain View, California office on Monday, February 25. Among other things they will be describing the push to release Selenium 1.0 and the roadmap and internals of Selenium 2.0. Details on the Selenium user meeting are at http://selenium.openqa.org/meetup.jsp -Frank -- Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 PushToTest, the open-source test automation company From fcohen at pushtotest.com Tue Feb 26 23:46:59 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Wed Feb 27 00:35:46 2008 Subject: [Dev] TestMaker 5.1 final Message-ID: <44E833B0-9D2C-4D83-9136-38B4623ADF51@pushtotest.com> Hi TestMaker Developers: I committed the last changes to TestMaker 5.1! The code is in cvs.pushtotest.com and tagged as tm51final. I will package the distribution and make it available shortly! Thank you everyone! For your hard work, for your great ideas, and for your contributions! -Frank -- Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 PushToTest, the open-source test automation company From lars_huttar at sil.org Wed Feb 27 07:26:15 2008 From: lars_huttar at sil.org (Lars Huttar) Date: Wed Feb 27 08:15:09 2008 Subject: [Dev] TestMaker 5.1 final In-Reply-To: <44E833B0-9D2C-4D83-9136-38B4623ADF51@pushtotest.com> References: <44E833B0-9D2C-4D83-9136-38B4623ADF51@pushtotest.com> Message-ID: <47C58117.7010707@sil.org> Congrats! Lars On 2/26/2008 11:46 PM, Frank Cohen wrote: > Hi TestMaker Developers: > > I committed the last changes to TestMaker 5.1! The code is in > cvs.pushtotest.com and tagged as tm51final. I will package the > distribution and make it available shortly! > > Thank you everyone! For your hard work, for your great ideas, and for > your contributions! > > -Frank > > -- > Frank Cohen, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122 > PushToTest, the open-source test automation company > > > From lars_huttar at sil.org Wed Feb 27 21:03:54 2008 From: lars_huttar at sil.org (Lars Huttar) Date: Wed Feb 27 21:53:00 2008 Subject: [Dev] Subversion coming soon In-Reply-To: <5010D954-4D87-448C-B24C-7FE821A676F3@pushtotest.com> References: <5010D954-4D87-448C-B24C-7FE821A676F3@pushtotest.com> Message-ID: <47C640BA.8050201@sil.org> On 2/11/2008 4:29 PM, Frank Cohen wrote: > Dear PushToTest Developers: > > We are upgrading our source code repository to use subversion (svn.) > The new service should be up in the next day or two. Please let me > know if you are interested in testing the migration. Thanks. > > -Frank I'm interested in trying out the svn repository. I guess I need a URL? Lars From fcohen at pushtotest.com Wed Feb 27 21:17:46 2008 From: fcohen at pushtotest.com (Frank Cohen) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:06:55 2008 Subject: [Dev] Subversion coming soon In-Reply-To: <11389672.1204175302665.JavaMail.root@m06> References: <5010D954-4D87-448C-B24C-7FE821A676F3@pushtotest.com> <11389672.1204175302665.JavaMail.root@m06> Message-ID: <6B2E766D-D778-40CC-B97B-3DFCDD08CA3D@pushtotest.com> Hi Lars: I installed the svn server but have not yet run the migration program. TestMaker 5.1 release is taking priority. I'll post a notice to the list when it is ready. Likely sometime next week. Thanks. -Frank On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > On 2/11/2008 4:29 PM, Frank Cohen wrote: >> Dear PushToTest Developers: >> >> We are upgrading our source code repository to use subversion >> (svn.) The new service should be up in the next day or two. Please >> let me know if you are interested in testing the migration. Thanks. >> >> -Frank > I'm interested in trying out the svn repository. I guess I need a URL? > > Lars > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@lists.pushtotest.com > http://lists.pushtotest.com/mailman/listinfo/dev >