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Does anyone have suggestions on techniques for the testing of JavaScript 'pop up' or 'fly out' style suggestion boxes that appear/disappear with keystrokes or mouse hover?

I am particular interested in anyone who has started developing automated functional tests with the Microsoft share point product?

Has anyone considered the ANZTB conference in Sydney 2009?
Will you be going?

I have been stepping up the challenge of automation for Web 2.0 applications and leading teams, so several of the speaker topics jumped out at me (Agile / Web 2.0 / Test Management)

ANZTB 2009 Conference

I have been asked on many occasions to estimate testing effort of for
smaller project ... and became increasingly frustrated by minimal
documentation. As a result I spend quite a lot of time talking with
developers and Business analysts to get enough of an idea about the
solution to for a ball park estimate.

Then my team leader explained one of his rules of testing: Testing
effort is 30% of development effort.

Does this rule hold true for COTS products (mostly configuration) and
Business proce… Continue

I was recently discussing with a colleague the difficulties of reporting for Data Conversion using the traditional waterfall methodology.

The difficulty with Data conversion is that testing it using the waterfall model, its not possible to know the true quality of the data until UAT has finished. UAT generally does not occur till the end of a project. As we all know UAT bugs are the most expensive to fix. UAT bugs also present a higher risk as they are not rigorously System and Unit re-… Continue