Meet us at AQAA Vendro Fair!

Meet us at AQAA Vendor Fair: October 11, 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA. We will be demonstrating our unique method for automating tests fro mobile devices, RealMobileTM. Go to http://www.aqaa.org/ for directions.

New YouTube video: Test Automation for Barcode Scanning

There is a common myth that the tests for printing, barcode scanning, and other operations involving hardware cannot be automated. Wrong! Our method for automating tests for mobile devices, RealMobile^TM, allows for automating a variety of functionalities of mobile device apps, including printing and scanning.

Watch how we can do it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwRB_WbE5x4:

Test Automation for Mobile Devices - new video posted on YouTube

We have a new YouTube video about our mobile test automation method:

Test Automation for Mobile Devices

We've developed a unique method for automating tests for mobile devices: iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. The uniqueness of the method lies in the combination of using common test automation tools, e.g., QuickTest Pro by HP/Mercury, yet running the test on the device itself.

Take a look at out YouTube video that demonstrates it:

Support the people of Iran!

For a few days I've been watching with amazement and admiration the people of Iran, who decided to risk their lives rather than be cheated again. It's always a great spectacle to watch Human Beings raising to the challenge of defending their freedom and dignity. In this case, though, an aura of heroism and self-sacrifice is seen as clearly as their green bands - the new color of democracy.

Whether Mosavi is good or bad is secondary. What's the most important is the will of Iranian individuals, millions of them, to stand up to the challenge and assert their rights for Freedom and Democracy. That's what really counts.

Few related links:

http://www.whereismyvote.org/

http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/14/iranian-protest-election-results-2/

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/06/13/iran-storm-of-protest-after-election/

See also:

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Compatibility Testing - Google Chrome

Google Chrome, the web browser  is here! 

My initial impression is quite good. I tried it with English, Hebrew and Russian sites, graphics, video, etc.

However, as a testing guy, I wouldn't settle for that. I don't know of any serious web application that works perfectly well across different browsers. JavaScript, video, fonts, exotic styles are part of the issue. There are custom plug-ins - Google, in their "how did we do it" comics, promised just yet rough treatment for these.  There are unique technologies like XFD and such. There is an endless variety of other fruits of programmers' creativity that might stumble as well when approached through the new browser.

Long story short: if you want to be sure your web application works with Google Chrome - TEST IT. Compatibility tests, when planned correctly and done well, can reveal most of the problems your users will encounter - and all that in a fraction of time usually required for the full-blown System tests.

We at Conflair can help you - see our page on Google Chrome Compatibility Tests. If you have questions, feel free to e-mail me at michael.yudanin@conflair.com.

P.S. Just found an image link on my own Conflair webpage that would not work in Google Chrome. Works perfectly well in IE and Firefox... After some exploration, I found that the problem was the good old .onclick property for the image object.

Here is the problem and the fix:

Problem code:

animArr[i].onclick = "ConflairServices/"+tmpArr[0];

}

function Switch()

{

document.FeaturedService.src = animArr[imgNumber].src;

document.getElementById("OpenFeaturedService").href = animArr[imgNumber].onclick;

The fix (based on abusing the .name property of the image object):

animArr[i].name = "ConflairServices/"+tmpArr[0];

}

function Switch()

{

document.FeaturedService.src = animArr[imgNumber].src;

document.getElementById("OpenFeaturedService").href = animArr[imgNumber].name;