Coding QA Podcast: Episode 20 Test Contexts

In this episode Matthew and Federico sit down to talk about test Contexts, and how our team uses this concept in automation. Positive and negative points are discussed as well as the challenges that the QA team faces when applying the concept in excess.

• News
  • The ASP.NET QA team is hiring! If you are interested in working in our team please send us your resume.
  • Podcast is now accessible via Zune
• Contexts
• What are "contexts" or "variations"?
• Some of the contexts that we use: TrustLevel, Impersonation, Browsers, ViewState, UNC, RemoteServer, SmartNav, etc.
• Pros: breadth coverage, cheap for the tester, confidence of no points missed.
• Cons: excessive results, skip evaluation of test value, maintainability cost is often disregarded.
• What is the situation in our team? The challenge of maintaining a 10 year old product.