Eamonn Faherty » QA http://blog.eamonnfaherty.co.uk technology enthusiast, public speaker and technical director Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:33:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Eggplant from Testplant – Automated functional testing http://blog.eamonnfaherty.co.uk/2009/05/15/eggplant-from-testplant-automated-functional-testing/ http://blog.eamonnfaherty.co.uk/2009/05/15/eggplant-from-testplant-automated-functional-testing/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 23:19:58 +0000 eamonn http://blog.eamonnfaherty.co.uk/?p=89 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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 capturing of the image was pretty good.

However, the product seems pretty immature. It felt like an alpha release. The first version of the software was programmed for Mac OSX and was later ported over to Linux. I think it was using OpenStep and so I think (and hope) the Mac version is far more stable. The Linux version had many issues, icons moving around screens loosing their relationships etc.

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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 for projects where the customer takes all responsibility for installation but otherwise it could be a disaster.
There are other sections in the paper describing QA and quality. It is a good read! Have a read!

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