How easy to reduce efforts in retesting a asp.net web application?

 

Most of the time when you write code for a web application you need to test it again and again. You have to run a whole flow of positive or negative test cases to check whether your application is working or not.

Now suppose your application have 20 pages and you need to traverse each individual page and may be perform some operation and on each change of your development you need to perform same thing.

sometimes, this thing will irritate you and you will skip testing which may be harmful because most of the time it happens when you skipped something you took a deep breath  and at that moment your application crashed .

So , as a responsible developer we do not have to skip any test scenario but next question is how to reduce this effort which you feel boring sometime.

I can say we can reduce this effort by a installing a simple  Firefox add-in which is absolutely free. The add in “Selenium add in”

you can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-expert-selenium-ide/

once you have installed this you will find the selenium icon near by search bar as shown below

when you click this icon you will get a selenium interface as shown below

The basic concept of this tool is what ever you will run in browser it has capability of recording those steps so it is just play button and pause button game, no rocket science. You can easily run and use this.

I am sure it will reduce your testing effort and when when selenium ide will play your test cases you can take a deep breath and enjoy your coffee and snacks.

I hope this tip may be helpful to you somewhere.

Happy Holidays.

Regards,

RJ

How to do 7zip programmatically using C# ?

Dear All,

Some times it may be possible you require to  make zip of  a file or directory.

so here is simple example.

To start it you have to download “SevenZipSharp.dll”, “7z.dll” you can download sdk from http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Once you download sdk copy above 2 DLL in your project bin folder.

Now write below code which i am writing here

   1:  

   2: public bool CompressFolder(String 

   3: backupFolder)

   4:  

   5: {

   6:  

   7: try

   8:  

   9: {

  10:  

  11: SevenZipCompressor sz = new SevenZipCompressor(); 

  12:  

  13: SevenZip.SevenZipCompressor.SetLibraryPath(DLLPath);

  14:  

  15: sz.CompressionLevel = 

  16: CompressionLevel.Ultra;

  17:  

  18: sz.CompressionMode = 

  19: CompressionMode.Create;

  20:  

  21: sz.CompressionMethod = 

  22: CompressionMethod.Default;

  23:  

  24: sz.FastCompression = 

  25: true;

  26:  

  27: sz.CompressDirectory(backupFolder, BackupPath + "\\" + 

  28: DateTime.Now.Date.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss") + 

  29: "_7Zip.7z");

  30:  

  31: Directory.Delete(backupFolder,true);

  32:  

  33: return true;

  34:  

  35: }

  36:  catch (Exception 

  37: ex)

  38:  

  39: {

  40:  

  41: throw ex;

  42:  }

Now let me describe the code to you.

This is function which compress the folder to 7zip what ever pass as a paramter

in this function we have created a sevenzip compressor object

SevenZip.SevenZipCompressor.SetLibraryPath(DLLPath);

in the above line we set the DLLpath which is basically your bin folder path

sz.CompressionLevel = CompressionLevel.Ultra; is compress level which can be different according to your need.

sz.CompressDirectory(backupFolder, BackupPath + "\\" + DateTime.Now.Date.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss") + "_7Zip.7z");

above row compress the directory of backupfolder and rename with datetime_7zip.7z

I hope this will help you.

Enjoy 7zip.

Thanks & Best Regards,

Rajat Jaiswla

Nice utilities for Web Developer

Hello friends,

Today I come up with some useful list which help you in web development and good news is that its all free.
1) “FIREBUG” :-
Basically “FIREBUG” is add in for FireFox. It’s a great utility helps a lot to design web pages. As a developer I am mostly intrested in programming not designing.But this utility help me in solving designing issues. With the help of it you can manage designing ,CSS issues.
You can download this from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
2) Web Development Helper:-
This one is another useful utitly for web developer to improve performance. Its basically help you to determine which page taking how much time to response.It also help other area also like script finding. It has dom Inspector also. You can take help of this tool in various way.
You can download this from http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper
3) Deep Zoom composer:- If you are working on Silverlight also then you can use Deep Zoom composer.it has very nice feature for images.
You can dowload this from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=457b17b7-52bf-4bda-87a3-fa8a4673f8bf&displaylang=en

So just dowload & use this tools and improve your code.

Happy programming!

Thanks …
Your host
Rajat