I was trialing Eggplant today at work. It is a vnc client that can capture images and use them to find regions to click or to compare state. I was using it to automate the smoke testing of our flash based games. The idea is great and the software has some really good points. You can highlight sections of the screen to create images and tell the software to scan the screen for the image later. Once found, you can tell the software to click on the image or assert its presence. This worked pretty well and even the capturingRead more
I never thought there was an onus on QA in open source projects. I was - apparently - wrong. I am reading an interesting article discussing QA in Open Source projects. It was written by Martin Michlmayr. It discusses using time based releases instead of feature based releases. It has some interesting points but I would be a little dubious about implementing this for a customer based project. Time based releases could mean down time for customers without any notable benefits. It also means time is spent releasing to a customer where time could be spent developing. I think it may work forRead more