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Enterprise ETL with SSIS Training Opportunity
For those of you near Denver, Colorado we have an opportunity just for you in association With our friends at SolidQ. This will be a Four Day, in-person class with hands-on labs on SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (SSIS) and applying its enterprise functionality to data warehouse ETL Systems!
The class will be taught by SQL Server Expert Chris Randall. If you’re available on Jan. 17-20, and wish to increase your SSIS skills, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. No previous experience is necessary.
There discounts for groups and SSWUG members you can apply to your registration fees.
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Is There a Place for Test Recorders Anymore?
I have been playing around with WatiN (Web Application Testing in Dot Net) for a couple weeks now. One of the reasons I have been looking at this tool is from personal experience using test recorders years ago. The test robots provided an infrastructure and storage of test requirements, as well as test execution and variance. They were more full featured.
Today, many of the open testing tools have taken a different direction. I believe this is primarily that the people developing the tools are professional programmers who have chosen to test applications.
It is my opinion that the key reason there are not a lot of full featured engines, etc. is that the techniques for application testing have migrated from that of the software analyst to a more robust programmer.
I am seeing excellent patterns resulting in re-usable components and routines for test execution. Using components and shorter methods makes maintaining the test framework much easier. In fact, it abstracts away from the actual test scenarios the physical implementation of web applications resulting in the same benefits we observer using modern software development patterns such as MVC.
You can still spend thousands of dollars for test suites such as Mercury, Rational Robot, and others. I’m just curious if the testing profession has moved beyond the need for the traditional tools. It seems to me that developer written tests fit better into a continuous integration, or daily build practice.
Get into the conversation. Drop me a note at btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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