Recent content by Noobsa44

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    Proving I can learn Java, C#, or any language for that matter.

    I would personally start by looking at doing a simple project that you can do in a week or so, which will give you more experience in the language and can be a great little demo to say "look, I can write Java too." On the net, I would suggest looking at...
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    Creating web pages out of playlists

    I don't know if this would solve your problem, but assuming you have access to the content and are willing to provide external access to the content, Opera Unite might be a good solution for you. Take a look at http://unite.opera.com/application/162/ for one possibility. If nothing suites your...
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    Software automation recomendations

    You can use a external program like AutoIt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoIt) or AutoHotKey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey) which are meant for IT rather than testing, or you can develop your own solution. I think using an external program is a better choice, but sometimes it is...
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    Database design for lists

    I’m attempting to develop a database which can store arbitrary lists of data and am looking for suggestions on design. What I want is to be able to have a list I can associate to other tables (such as a user) to a set of data points. I have simplified my current idea, but here is my current...
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    How to GetClassName

    Just looking real quick at my own usage of GetWindowThreadProcessId and I noticed that the process ID has both a return value and a out parameter. Are you using the return value rather than the out parameter? If that is not the issue, could you record the two values and use the command line...
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    QA: Test Automation Framework

    I believe if you examine the code a little closer you will see that it is not that long, but instead meant to demonstrate a few ways to solve the problem. The absolute shortest method is to write it something like this: var text = clusterTable.TableRows[0].ElementsWithTag("th")[0].Text; I...
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    QA: Test Automation Framework

    Unfortunately, it appears for historical reasons WatiN does not by default support th tags. Here is what I think is a reasonable workaround… using System; using WatiN.Core; using WatiN.Core.Constraints; using System.Collections; namespace WatiNSample { class Sample { [STAThread]...
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    QA: Test Automation Framework

    Yes, I have done some evaluation of Telerik’s WebUI test. If you are using Telerik controls, it certainly adds some value. To give it credit, where credit is due, I really like how they start with a non-code recording and then provide the ability to convert to code. By having this...
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    QA: Test Automation Framework

    I have worked with a multitude of automation frameworks* in the past 5 or so years and I’ll try to condense my knowledge into a few recommendations... * I have mostly worked in windows testing and in most cases, the windows OS is better supported for automation compared to Linux. If you are...
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    Good agile QA books/resources?

    I found that Agile is a good process in getting stuff out quickly, but if you are not careful the bug counts can grow quickly... I am a Test Engineer with a focus on Automation. I come from a medium size company (about 200 employees) and when I started we had about 60-70 employees. Some of...
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    Trying to keep myself interested in learning web design

    There is a site that I visit every now and again that might be helpful to you. It is all written by a Java programmer, but 80% of the projects can be generalized. I personally have implemented one interesting idea that is listed (LazyString) in C# and have found some of his other concepts...
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    VB.net best loop to check every 10 seconds

    Unless you are doing something really complicated, I would say you should use a timer set for every 10 seconds and just run the check every 10 seconds. That way you don't need the loop (you simply stop the timer when the program is found) and you don't see the UI "hanging" while it sits in the...
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    Programming ideas

    I have found this list of student projects to be rather interesting. While they are written as Java specific projects, I would say 90% of them could be written in any language. I found Lazy Strings (which could be implemented in java or C#) and Source Code In Database to be two of the more...
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    Which language should I learn/use for text file analysis/manipulation?

    Either use a reg ex (in which case perl is ideal) or use a split function (split on '|' and then on ':', the first item will be the property title, the second item will be the value.). I know C#, VB(.NET), VB Script and PHP have split functionality. Most decent languages have a function like...
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    Mass Update ASPX Pages

    Just so you know, windows does have grep. In addition to that, almost all windows boxes support VB Script and Jscript, so you could always write a simple search and replace script. While this isn't exactly what you want, this is a simple search VB Script I wrote some time ago which might get...