The Test Automation Tips is
an irregular newsletter with tips on how to write automated test. It is being published by
me (Gabor Szabo) and is sent out to the registered users.
Background
I have been doing test automation for many years and teaching courses
in the subject. The class called
QA Test Automation using Perl
has been running in various formats since 2003.
On 23 May 2008 I decided to set up this newsletter in order to share some of my experience
with people who cannot attend my classes.
Content
While I am not sure what the exact content will be, I have some directions.
For sure I'll give tips on how to write better unit tests in Perl.
The QA Test Automation using Perl
course also contains lots of slides on how to test various applications such as
web applications, databases, file systems, firewalls, routers etc. using Perl.
I am going to take ideas from there an discuss them on this newsletter.
I am also planning to add information on how to write unit tests in other
languages - mostly the dynamic flavors such as Python, PHP and Ruby -
and how to integrate between the tests written in several languages.
In addition if you are interested in a topic, please let me know.
If it also interests me, I'd be glad to write about it.
White box testing, black box testing and what's in between
Testing web applications
Testing command line applications
Separating test code and test data
Better failure reports using Test::More
Test coverage: eliminating unused code
Test coverage: fixing a bug
What's the difference between unit test, integration test and acceptance test?
Subscription
This is double opt-in mailing list, just like most of the lists today.
First you have to type in your e-mail address and optionally your name.
Then you'll get an e-mail message with instructions on how to finish
your subscription.
When you had enough, you can easily unsubscribe the same way.
Language specific web sites and mailng lists
Some of the programming languages have their own testing or qa related web sites
and mailing lists.
On the Perl-QA mailing list people discuss both how to write test for Perl
applications but also on how to write test for anything else.
PHP-QAT is the location where people discuss the QA aspects of PHP itself.
PHP-PEAR-QA is mainly for PEAR package maintainers.
