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I've (miss)used excel as a web-service testing platform once. The test data (input/expected output) was anyway in the Excel sheet, so why not. We did not have o
by pintxo 6y ago
I've (miss)used excel as a web-service testing platform once. The test data (input/expected output) was anyway in the Excel sheet, so why not. We did not have other software available at the time, so Excel+VBA it is.
It was one of my nicest testing gigs ever. A test session would take only minutes, all results documented to the t. And fiddling around with the test data was so easy. Would be interesting to know if this thing is still in use.
Not sure the customer liked it that much, I regression tested the 6 previous - still running - versions of the service, something no one had cared to do for years. We found bugs both in the Spec and in the Code for nearly all old versions...
- nullsense 6y ago>I've (miss)used excel as a web-service testing platform once. The test data (input/expected output) was anyway in the Excel sheet, so why not. We did not have other software available at the time, so Excel+VBA it is. That's an upgrade on how Toshiba did testing. They did basically the same thing except it was Excel+Humans. No joke. Never saw that one with my own eyes but a coworker did. He also said they had doctors there and each doctor was responsible for X number of staff and every so often made them fill out a questionnaire of which the final question was "have you thought about killing yourself lately?" and if you answered yes you got a day off. Apparently people would ask for transfers to different offices where the doctor responsible for them wasn't physically present, so they could avoid even being asked the question for fear of being made to take time off work. One of the more senior guys on the project kinda just disappeared too. Fun times.