It was a beautiful spring in 2013. I was in the testing business for three years part-time and one-year full time: a good time for me to take a course in testing and consolidate what I was doing in practice. My testing mentors, Oana, Alex, and Ru, recommended the BBST courses. Two of them had… read more
We’re excited to announce that we recently added a Visual Studio Code extension to AltWalker. Through this extension, we want to help users to both edit and visualize JSON models within the VS Code. How it can help you AltWalker Model Visualizer is an open-source extension that comes to help everyone who writes and executes… read more
In this article, we present an approach of testing the authentication flow of an application with the State Transition Testing technique. We use AltWalker, GraphWalker and Python to write and execute tests automatically.
Context În 2012 echipa noastră formată din patru Altomi a câștigat concursul Eurostar Team Star cu filmulețul “Creaturi ale testării” (EN: Creatures of Testing). Așa am ajuns să participăm la cea mai mare conferință din Europa dedicată testării software, care a avut loc în Amsterdam. Una dintre sesiunile la care am participat a fost “Crearea… read more
Have you ever tried to buy something online and made it all the way to the checkout, only to find out that the payment process isn’t working? Or how about spending hours on an eShop, carefully choosing all your items and just when you’re thinking “ok let’s empty my bank account” the cart isn’t opening? … read more
If you ever had a complaint from a customer that something on your website is preventing them from buying, you are not alone and in fact, you are lucky. Usually, users will just leave and purchase what they need from the shop “next door”. In this article, we are going to talk about what you… read more
This year, Altom turned 11 years old. The one-shot anniversary video we uploaded back in September, was one of the most challenging projects we have been involved in as a team this year. To those of you who have already watched the video and shared their positive feedback with us, we wish to give you… read more
We recently had a meetup in Cluj focused on testing tours, with the occasion of Eurostar’s contest Teamstar. As part of their contest entry some of our colleagues decided to create a workshop in which we would practice with tours. They prepared intensely for a few weeks: searched materials on this technique, picked a list of tours, practiced with them, and created an exercise for the meetup.
The first thing I realized from this experience is that there is a lot out there about testing tours. The organizers kindly provided some materials to read before the meetup, from diverse sources. Going through them, I found references to even more materials on tours. (You can find them at the end of the article). So it seems to be quite a known technique.
But why all this focus on testing tours? In what ways are they valuable?
I sat down with James to talk about his approach in teaching the RST course. Some interesting behind-the-scene insight came out, including particular ways that James uses to give feedback to his students.
I felt honored to have been invited to facilitate the Test Lab at STAREAST. Being my first Lab at this particular conference, I was lucky to have Bart Knaack, James Lyndsay and Wade Wachs there to ramp me up. They told me about their experiences with the Lab at STAREAST and gave me valuable insights from their personal kit of lessons learned. Their input helped me change the regular approach I had when running other Labs at EuroSTAR and BTD. Once again, context wins over pre-established “how to”s.