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Deep Oracles: Multiplying the Value of Automated Tests

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Deep Oracles: Multiplying the Value of Automated Tests

(This blog post is expanding on a presentation I gave recenntly. Slides are here [https://speakerdeck.com/emanuil/deep-oracles-multiplying-the-value-of-automated-tests] ) Modern software is a complex beast. We need to be sure that even after the smallest change is introduced, our application continues to function as intended (also small does not equal

Running Test In Parallel - Optimal Number Of Threads

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Running Test In Parallel - Optimal Number Of Threads

June this year I presented at expo:QA conference [http://www.expoqa.com/expoqa16/en.html]. It was a case study on how we increased the execution time of high level automation tests more than 60 times [https://speakerdeck.com/emanuil/need-for-speed-accelerate-tests-from-3-hours-to-3-minutes] . Last week I received an email from one

Eliminating a Class of Defects

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Eliminating a Class of Defects

Imagine the following line of PHP code: $db->GetRow("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = $user_id"); This line is vulnerable to SQL injection, if an attacker controls $user_id variable. This is the safe version (using parametrized query): $db->GetRow("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id

Fix Your Unstable Automated UI Tests

Fix Your Unstable Automated UI Tests

Unstable automated tests are bad. You cannot rely on the results. It takes too much time to investigate if a failure is really a bug or a false positive/negative. By definition UI tests are the worst as there are lots of moving parts involved, and the planets need to

Static Code Analysis for PHP

Static Code Analysis for PHP

Static Code Analysis (SCA) is the first of the three pillars of automated testing [https://emanuilslavov.com/the-three-pillars-of-automated-testing/]. This is the practice of running tools that compile (depending on the language you use) and parse your source code, matching to see of various rules are violated. No code is executed