Category: Bad Software
Why record-playback (almost) never works and why almost nobody is using it anyway
June 1, 2016
Alister Scott once again calls out a number of spot-on technical points regarding the use of automation tools. In this case, he discusses record/playback automation tools. Technical reasons aside, we also need to look at the non-technical reasons. I’ve only once encountered someone trying to rely on the record-playback feature of an automation tool (my […]
Why is this still happening?
August 27, 2007
You would think that this kind of message would be a thing of the past, but apparently not. Or at least not when buying tickets to major exhibitions in Melbourne.
Back to school…
August 13, 2007
I’m back at university, in an effort to force myself to knuckle down and get through the pain of learning Java. It’s been 16 years since I was last there, and here are a few of the things I’ve learned so far – I’ve learned about the syllabus Despite the move to Java, very little […]
Sorry!
April 17, 2007
I thought I was done with ranting about automation tools for a while, but I couldn’t resist this quote from my former boss’ blog: “Tools that let programmers create software by manipulating icons and graphics shapes on screen have a long and sometimes successful history… But these have generally served as layers of shortcuts on […]
On corporately mandated tools and vendorscripts…
March 20, 2007
I have been riding the ups and downs as I transfer my previous test automation framework learnings to one of the big vendor automation tools. I’d resisted criticism, but today I have to say, loudly, it sucks. Rather than waste my energy, I simply direct you to read this (http://adamv.com/dev/articles/hatevbs/) (make sure you follow the […]