Demystifying Apple Pay vs. Credit Cards: What E-Commerce Testers Need to Know
TL;DR: Apple Pay doesn’t change how money moves; it just changes how card data is shared. Instead of transmitting real …
Topic: Testing
Browsing all published articles and engineering notes categorized under Testing.
The Delicate Art of Load Test Scripting
TL;DR: We are often asked why we need that much time to recheck load test scripts. So, here is our explanation in ten sentences or …
WCAG Testing in E-Commerce: Compliance, Accessibility, and Business Impact
TL;DR: The EU’s upcoming legislation makes WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliance non-negotiable. With 87 …
Neodymium 5.1 - Get more done faster
TL;DR: Neodymium 5.1 has been released with a host of impressive new features. These include full-page screenshots in reports, …
A new magnetic force: Neodymium 5.0.0
TL;DR: We proudly announce the release of Neodymium 5.0.0. Neo is a Java-based test library for web automation that utilizes …
Performance Test Rating Criteria
TL;DR: Load and performance testing produces a vast amount of data. This data has to be interpreted and communicated. Because not …
BOM - Byte Order Mark
Because we encountered another hidden encoding issue as part of test data, here are some information about BOM and why this might …
Comparing Measured and Perceived Loading Times
TL;DR: The perceived loading time is what shapes the user’s impression of the speed of a website, but measuring perceived loading …
Neodymium - An Open Source Framework for Web Testing
TL;DR: Neodymium is a Java-based test library for web automation that utilizes existing libraries (Selenide, WebDriver, Allure, …
How to use the XLT Result Browser
When using XLT for test automation or load testing, a visual and browsable log of your test case steps and their results will be …
Multi-Browser Support for Test Automation with XLT
Summary In today’s post we will discuss the steps necessary to enhance an XLT-based test suite with multi-browser support. We will …
Special Characters in Script Developer
Recently we received a support request regarding special characters in Script Developer. Perhaps other XLT users stumble across a …
Tracking and Ad-Blocker Software
Summary in 64 words Ad blockers are widely used tools these days. Users install this software to improve loading times of websites …
Our Demandware SiteGenesis Community Test Suite
Today, we are happy to announce the release of our new Demandware SiteGenesis Community Test Suite! It is a test suite for …
Should Load Tests Validate Functionality?
My answer to this question is a very strong " yes “. You might want to limit yourself a little in the overall …
SQE training week in Boston
At Xceptance we think that “you live and you learn”, so we were eager to read about an upcoming training week by SQE …
Use XLT with Sauce Labs and BrowserStack
Sauce Labs and BrowserStack - What Are They and Why Use Them? This approach still work fine, but we came up with a much better …
Why do women make good software testers?
The answer to this question is fairly simple: women make good software testers if they’re good at testing. And so do men. There …
Another Six Things You Should Never Say to a Software Tester
Inspired by this UTest article 6 Things You Should Never Say to a Software Tester, we came up with additional six comments a …
TestSuite-NoCoding - Load Testing with CSV Files
We continue to share cool things with the community of software testers and developers. Today we are announcing the availability …
XCMailr - An Open Source Test Mail Forwarder
As a software tester, an episode such as the one below must be more than familiar to you and, let’s be honest, it has the …
Test Automation - Here are our Thoughts on it
Today’s article can be seen as a survey reflecting our thoughts on web test automation in general. It basically lists personal …
Simplify Your Life With a Little UI Automation
Are you familiar with someone asking you to do things such as putting all of your clients into the new CRM or inserting 80 new …
Web Drivers in XLT: Basic Access Authentication
Today’s article of our WebDrivers series deals with HTTP authentication - a topic that, at first sight, seems to be very specific …
Our Top Software Testing Trends 2013 - Continued
Image © Juja Schneider Early in 2013, we compiled a personal list of relevant software testing trends. Having received great …
How to Speed Up Manual Testing with Test Automation
Image © Juja Schneider This article is not about setting up a sophisticated environment for automated tests since the relevance …
Terms explained: Visits, Page views, Sessions, Requests, Hits
Image © Juja Schneider When discussing possible load test setups with our clients, we usually need to refer to these key terms: …
This is Just a Data Issue
Image © Juja Schneider Many projects have their closed or “won’t fix” bugs commented with remarks such as: “Content-related …
WebDrivers in XLT: Test Case Design that Compensates for Inconsistencies across WebDrivers
Still remember the first post of our article series? It talked about how you can run XLT test cases in different browsers. If …
The Art of Reading Performance Test Charts
Powerful load and performance test tools don’t only retrieve pages of your website randomly with zillions of users at the …
Successful Software Testing - Communication is Everything
Image © Juja Schneider Continue reading this article if one of the following statements applies to your software testing projects: …
Test Case Design - The Unfinished Discussion
This is a topic whole generations of software testers have debated about. Test case design is a very subjective matter, depending …
The Bipolar Life Of A Software Tester - Continued
Eric Jacobsen from testthisblog.com started this little rant about his bipolar life as a tester. You should read it, it is very …
Our Top 6 Software Testing Trends 2013
Happy New Year to everybody! Time to think about 2013 and the work ahead of us. The ecommerce market is growing and becoming more …
Test Automation Community on Google+
When Google+ brought the community feature online, we immediately knew, that could be it to get testers together and discuss test …
Understand and choose a load test model
When running load tests it is all about the concept of how you setup and run a test. Previously we already talked about getting to …
Test Automation for Demandware SiteGenesis with XLT
Demandware, Inc., a leading on-demand ecommerce platform provider, offers a fast and ready to use storefront implementation called …
Xceptance, Inc. is hiring
Xceptance, Inc. is hiring a Quality Assurance Test Lead in the Greater Boston Area. Take a look at our job posting.
Handle authentication during WebDriver testing
Sometimes authentication is necessary before a test case can be executed. While HtmlUnit based tests can easily enter and confirm …
XLT 4.1.8 Update Release
XLT 4.1.8 has been released. It contains a couple of improvements and bug fixes. You can get the latest version here: . These are …
Testing Arabic Web Pages with XLT
As you may know, there aren’t only Western character encoded websites on the web. There are also websites in Chinese, Japanese, …
Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools
Smashing Magazine lists a couple of free and commercial tools to cover cross-browser testing: Good news: very powerful free …
Get the right load mix out of a few numbers
When testing ecommerce applications on SaaS environments, you often do not get enough numbers from clients because they simply do …
XLT 4.0.5 Amazon-EC2 AMIs available
These are the AMI-IDs of the XLT 4.0.5 images for Amazon-EC2. EU-West: ami-772b1d03 US-East: ami-52649b3b US-West: ami-29bfec6c …
Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!
This article was first published in the June 2010 issue of the magazine Testing Experience. HTTP-level tools record HTTP requests …
XLT - Garbage Collector details visualized
Today we want to give you a small preview of an upcoming XLT feature. Most of you probably know that XLT features agent …
QA Blog Collection
Steve collected a very nice list of QA and testing blogs. 100 + 4 different blogs to take a look at. Check it out: Top 100 …
XLT 4.0 Developer Screencasts
We just published four brand-new screencasts about XLT 4.0, its features, and how to work with them. This is our first attempt to …
Xceptance LoadTest 4.0 is available
We just released Xceptance LoadTest 4.0. This release of our load test software got some really nice feature enhancements to make …
Reasons for a Test Environment
People asked for a rough guide for running load tests against their live site and whether this is a good idea at all. Well, let me …
Why Test Automation Costs Too Much
I got a pretty nice link today. Check out that short article about the usual obstacles when trying or applying test automation: …
Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!
We published the article “Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!” in the 10th issue of the testing …
XLT 3.3.1 - Neue Kommentarfunktion
Jeder Tester hat sich bestimmt schon über den Aufwand geärgert, den man treiben muss, damit Testkonfigurationen, -ergebnisse und …
Alle Verzeichnisse in einem Verzeichnis einpacken
Wer auf seiner Serverplatte (Linux) mal aufräumen möchte, der könnte den folgenden Shell-Schnipsel nützlich finden. Es TARt und …
Andere Blogs rund ums Testen
Natürlich gibt es noch andere Blogs, die sich mit Testen und Qualitätssicherung beschäftigen. Einige davon möchte ich heute mit …
Was QA nicht machen soll
Es gibt immer große Missverständnisse über die Rolle von QA/Test. Einige Leute wollen, dass QA das Produkt explizit freigibt und …
Was sind Visits, was sind Sessions?
Wenn wir mit Kunden über die möglichen Lasttesteckdaten sprechen, dann ist immer wieder von Visits und Sessions die Rede. Beide …
Begriffe erklärt: Lasttest, Stresstest, ...
Es gibt zahlreiche Begriffe für die verschiedenen Lasttest-Arten. Unsere Erfahrung aus der täglichen Arbeit, aus Gesprächen mit …
Xceptance LoadTest 3.3 ist verfügbar
Ab sofort steht das Softwarepaket Xceptance LoadTest (XLT) 3.3 zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Dahinter verbirgt sich schon die …
Lesepflicht - OWASP zu XSS
Heute gibt es einen Link über Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS), was es ist, was man dagegen tun kann oder kurz: Wie beugt man XSS vor? …
Die lieben User-Agenten
Wer User-Agenten kennen muss oder User-Agenten zum Testen braucht, der ist auf user-agent.org super aufgehoben.
I love the Validator
Wer den W3C-Validator benutzt, der kann jetzt seine Dankbarkeit mit einer Spende zum Ausbau des Dienstes zum Ausdruck bringen. …
Unterschied zwischen Visits und Pageviews
Heute habe ich eine Suchanfrage zum Thema “Unterschied zw Visits und Pageviews” entdeckt. Da wir leider keine passende …
Passwörter prüfen leichtgemacht
Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, ob seine Passwörter ansatzweise sicher sind, der sollte das The Password Meter ausprobieren. …
Parallele Nutzer - die Kunst der Berechnung
Die Meisten dürften den Begriff Parallele Nutzer ( Concurrent User ) kennen. Im Bereich des Last- und Performancetests wird die …
Lunascape - Wird das Testerleben einfacher?
Es gibt einen neuen Browser Lunascape. Der besondere Gag ist, dass man die Rendering-Engine wechseln kann. Er kann also als …
Implizite Safari-Tests
Es zeigt sich immer wieder, dass Webseiten, die sich schwer mit XLT automatisieren lassen und immer wieder mit Fehlern abbrechen, …
Garbage in, Garbage out!
Viele Tester dürften diesen berühmten Ausspruch kennen: Garbage in, Garbage out! Er spricht mir manchmal aus der Seele. Es gibt …
Zum Heulen
Es ist doch zum Heulen, gerade eine Statistik gelesen: “…und lediglich 4,13 Prozent der Webseiten erfüllen alle …
Korrekte Telefonnummern sind nicht falsch
Ich finde es immer wieder sehr nervig, wenn Programmierer einfach nicht mit Telefonnummern und ihren korrekten Ausprägungen …
Hammerhead - Firefox Plugin
Ab sofort gibt es Hammerhead als neues und nützliches Firefox/Firebug-Plugin. Hammerhead misst die Ladezeit einer Webseite und …
Nach dem Lasttest
Nach vielen Lasttests in den letzten Tagen habe ich mal in meine Spezialmailbox geschaut und war ja etwas überrascht, dass es doch …
Google Testing Blog
Heute habe ich das Google Testing Blog entdeckt. Erstmal rumschnüffeln, was Google über das Testen so schreibt. Der erste Eindruck …