Reflections

In 1972, Dijkstra claimed that “program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never their absence” Has software testing evolved after this? Terms which are related to software testing adequacy Statement coverage. Branch coverage. Path coverage. Mutation adequacy.

I was using selenium rc and ruby a few months back. Today when I tried using it, there are a lot of changes and there is no documentation. Let me go through the differences between old and new. Old Download selenium remote control. It is a zip file. Unzip the file. Now you will find the selenium server ( a jar file which u have to run from the command prompt) and the selenium client for ruby ( a driver file in the respective language, ie for ruby, u may expect selenium.rb) Just copy selenium.rb to the project . In Netbeans IDE, u have to right click project, select properties, add to project ( jar or folder) and select the appropriate client driver. New In the ruby client folder, no selenium.rb exists. A doc folder is present which asks us to install the selenium gem. Great, now it is a gem, but what am i supposed to do after that. I installed the gem. When i run the ruby tests, a lot of errors come up. When i google for these errors, no help comes up. Dot net to the rescue I created a...

I had run with selenium.rb Now they have converted it into a gem. Have to figure out how to use gem (if possible) with netbeans. The selenium remote control download contains different folders for each language. Previously the ruby folder contained selenium.rb Now the ruby folder contains only documentation. No ruby files. The documentations says to install selenium gem. I wil give it a try and update this blog

Successf ully installed the following. 1. Adobe acrobat reader - it should be a ".deb" package. Not an "rpm. I made that mistake here. If you are using Open Suse, then rpm would be fine. 2. Installed Virtual box - Then installed Window XP in it. - > Windows XP is working fine. 3. Installed JDK  - > and net beans on top of that.

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The solution seems to be "virtualization". Let me install vmware players and I will let you know the results. Tristan Rhodes tells us about the five possible alternatives here-> http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/02/five-ways-to-use-windows-apps-in-linux.html 1. Use an open source alternative instead. And he gives the website (http://www.osalt.com/) which can provide open-source alternatives to any windows program u want. 2. Buy a commercial product that was designed for Linux 3. Use Wine to run the application in Linux -> The drawback is that all applications cannot be ported to linux. 4. Run Windows in a Virtual Machine -> Virtual box seems to be promising. I will let you know the results. 5. Run the application on a remote Windows system --> This is when you already have a windows server running for you. :)

Successfully installed Quake 3 Arena with Wine. Started playing.. and enjoying a lot!! Type wine /pathtocdrom/setup.exe to install the game. Type wine quake3.exe in the installation directory to run the game. Screenshot is attached.