Month: September 2007

Attention, attention…

September 10, 2007

The concept of inattentional blindness has been, if you’ll excuse the unintended pun, brought to the testing world’s attention lately by Cem Kaner and James Bach. Sajjadul Hakim has written recently on an exploratory testing experience in which he attributed failure to observe a bug to inattentional blindness. While this may have been the cause, […]

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Watir difficulties, problems and trouble with TinyMCE

September 4, 2007

I’ve spent far too much of the last day and a bit trying to get Watir to identify and manipulate the TinyMCE rich text edit control. Hopefully the title of this post will allow anyone experiencing similar problems to Google my solution! TinyMCE does a lot of javascript nastiness (from Watir’s perspective), turning a text […]

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I’m Jared Quinert, a testing consultant located in Melbourne, Australia. With thirty years of experience, I specialise in agile testing, context-driven testing and intelligent toolsmithing with a focus on business outcomes over process. As one of the most experienced agile testers in Australia, I’ve been diving in hands-on since 2003 to discover how to build successful whole-team approaches to software development.

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