Twitter allowed “Grouping” of People I Follow

Wahoo !!!! I am happy ! Very happy !

I wrote an article http://mytestingideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/twitter-allowing-followers-to-be.html on 06th October about Twitter having a feature to allow “grouping” of people I would like to show my tweets to and groping the people I follow. And it is out ! :)

The have implemented one part of the feature request. I am happy, looks like someone is listening. :)

Customize Wait Statement in QTP

In QTP, it’s good to use customize Wait statements rather than using Sync property of Browser. The way test case is written in QTP is perform some action and wait for the result to verify. And these results are mostly the response from the server which results in loading new page. Below is a function which solves this problem and can be easily used and improves the readability of the script.

Function Wait_For_PageLoad(BrowsName,PageName)

    Browser(BrowsName).Sync
    Browser(BrowsName).Page(PageName).Sync
    Browser(BrowsName).Page(PageName).WaitProperty "visible",true,10000

End Function

Testing SOA based Application

What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? SOA is a method for delivering complex business software with increased flexibility through loosely coupled services Relies on Service orientation as its fundamental design principle SOA implementations are a combination of web components, mid-tier components, as well as back-end and legacy systems Enterprises are using SOA to integrate disparate systems into cohesive business processes by reusing in-tact systems and leveraging messaging and integration. SOAs have allowed organizations to flexibly integrate new and existing components as services in a business workflow

Challenges in SOA Testing Testing loosely coupled services. Heterogeneous computing environment Bug isolation due to multiple layers Testing asynchronous nature of application

Solution to the SOA based Testing Thorough component level testing of services before integration Service Integration Testing Testing from multiple Point of View (Service Provider, Service Consumer, Service Registry) End to End system testing Tool based testing and automation

SOA Testing Lifecycle

Best Practices SOA requires changes in Testing Methods and life cycle.     – Test Services in Isolation     – Test earlier in the life cycle SOA requires testing from multiple perspectives. SOA requires Testing along multiple dimensions.     – Test functionality     – Test for Interoperability and compliance to standards     – Test for Security     – Test for Performance SOA requires specialized testing skills     – Testing exclusively through GUI is insufficient     – Test using Test Harnesses to invoke services directly     – Requires both Technical and Business expertise

Twitter allowing “Followers” to be Grouped ???

I am not in US! I don’t use Face book, Twitter, MySpace more than Google when i am online. Of late I started using Twitter and currently I am Following :42 & Followers: 32 

And a total of 83 tweets. Not good but not very bad also. Once in a day I do log into Twitter account either to tweet or read updates from the others.

But I realized, Twitter is such a plain application. I mean just simple. You Follow <==> Some one Follows you ==> You Tweet. That’s it. Damn Simple. So I have friends who follows me, Colleagues and outside world. There are some updates which I want to share with my friends only and not with Outside World or vice versa. Then I realized that Twitter should actually allow me to Group Users I follow and allow me to choose my updates to share with certain groups. Wouldn’t it be nice. Yeah I feel so, I don’t know about you.

Well I have just sent an email about this to Senior Product Manager in Twitter and hoping he may consider it. Let’s see what happens.

Retrieving all Dropdown values in VBScript

I will be pushing some VBScript functions which will help QTP automation testers. I will be randomly selecting web controls and a problem statement with that. Today’s control is drop down box and I will be writing a function which will read all the values in the drop down.

Function GetAllValuesOfDropDown(BrowserName,PageName, DropDownName)
   If  Browser(BrowserName).Page(PageName).WebList(DropDownName).Exist  Then
        If  Browser(BrowserName).Page(PageName).WebList(DropDownName).GetROProperty("disabled") = False  Then 
       DropDownValues = Browser(BrowserName).Page(PageName).WebList(DropDownName).GetROProperty("all items")
            GetAllValuesOfDropDown= DropDownValues
        else
            GetAllValuesOfDropDown= False
        End If
   else
        GetAllValuesOfDropDown= False
   End If
End Function

This will also help me revise my concepts. :)

Happy Birth Day Google !!!

Notice the spelling of Google. It’s the Google’s 11th birthday !!!

At first I thought, it’s typo; but then pointing the mouse shows 11th Birthday. :)

Nice…

Making cells mandatory in Excel

Recently I read some article in Martin Flower’s blog where he is pointing to “Excel” as the most popular programming language. Indeed it is ! I very much agree with that. It’s just a powerful tool which allows one a freedom of implementation in VBScript.

I am just sharing my experience with Excel where I had to make some cells mandatory as a part of filling a form. Hope you will be benefited.

Option Explicit
Dim Mandatory As Range

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub

Select Case Target.Address
Case "$A$5", "$A$10", "$A$15", "$A$20", "$A$25", "$A$30"
Set Mandatory = Target
Case Else
If Not Mandatory Is Nothing Then
If Mandatory = "" Then
Mandatory.Select
MsgBox "You cannot leave this cell blank"
End If
End If
End Select

End Sub

The above macro will make the cells A5,A10,… mandatory and pressing TAB will prompt user a message “You cannot leave this cell blank” and the focus will remain in the cell.

In case of any issues do drop in a comment or mail to me.