thucydides for ATDD / BDD / BDT?

Anyone heard or used the tool "thucydides"-  for ATDD / BDD / BDT before?

Whats your review / thoughts on it? Any pros / cons? 

http://www.thucydides.info/
https://github.com/thucydides-webtests/thucydides

From their website: "Thucydides is a tool that lets you use WebDriver-based unit or BDD tests to write more flexible and more reusable WebDriver-based tests, and also to generate documentation about your acceptance tests, including a narrative description of test, along with the corresponding screen shots, and also high-level summaries and aggregations of the test results."

Security testing tools

Here is some information / links to potential tools / resources to use for security testing:

• KromCAT: http://firecat.toolswatch.org/kromcat/
• WebSecurify extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/websecurify
• safe3si: https://code.google.com/p/safe3si/ - seems interesting, for penetration testing
• Havij v1.16 Advanced SQL Injection: http://www.itsecteam.com/products/havij-v116-advanced-sql-injection/
• sqlninja: http://sqlninja.sourceforge.net/
• owasp (The Open Web Application Security Project): https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_SQL_Injection_(OWASP-DV-005)
• sqlmap: http://sqlmap.org/

TaaS (Test-as-a-Service) coming to Sri Lanka and Delhi

Riding on the good response received on TaaS in 2012 and early 2013, I will be speaking more on the same in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 7th March 2013, and in Delhi on 14th March 2013. Looking forward to more feedback on TaaS!

What should be the new name for TaaS?

I have got a lot of interesting and valuable feedback for TaaS - Test-as-a-Service. One thing that stands out which people want is a different name for TaaS - since it does cause a lot of confusion with the business vertical of "Testing as a Service".

So, I am taking all this feedback seriously and considering changing the name of TaaS - before I publish the gem.

Since TaaS is essentially an orchestrator of your end-2-end Integration tests, some thoughts on potential names, with their meanings are:

• khansama - kindly suggested by Erik Petersen. A great contextual Indian name for a great tool that co-ordinates and organizes the testing.
• vahak - Sanskrit word - meaning Transporter, Conveyor, Carrier, Conduit
• dwar - Sanskrit word - meaning Door, Inlet, Outlet, Gate, Through, 
• honcho - leader, manager
• comptroller - controller
• relegate - refer to another for decision
• transmit - communicate

What do you think? What name do you like? Any other suggestions for better name?

rubygems.org & WAAT

With the recent problems the rubygems.org site is facing, you may not be able to get to the WAAT gem. In that case, you can also download the gem directly from the github repository. All information about WAAT can be found from my blog as before.

TaaS received pretty well in Pune conf

As mentioned in my earlier post, I spoke about TaaS - Test-as-a-Service in UNICOM's Next Generation Testing Conference in Pune on 23rd Jan. The talk went pretty well. Since this talk was for a slightly smaller duration, I had to use a scaled down version of the same slides that I used in the TaaS talk in Mumbai. The audio playback of the talk in Pune is available here.

There were a lot of interesting questions that came up this time:
1. Can I use TaaS to test in the cloud?
2. Can I use TaaS to do load / performance testing?
3. What are the security implications of using TaaS? 
4. Can I use TaaS to do mobile testing across different devices?

I will try to address these questions in subsequent posts.

Take a nap ... its good for you

... or so the research about "What Are the Facts About Naps?" says.

I particularly like #6.

So if someone finds me napping at work, I blame the article. :)

WAAT-Ruby crosses 1000 downloads on rubygems

Feeling very happy - the WAAT-ruby gem has crossed 1000 downloads from rubygems.org.