Comments on: Counterstrings: Self-Describing Test Data http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/22 The Consulting Software Tester Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dan Meservy http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-239902 Dan Meservy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:33:31 +0000 http://12.165.213.55/blog/?p=22#comment-239902 I've already shared this with a couple of my testing colleagues. Though it's simple, it's powerful. Before, we'd hold a button for a long time in a field, then copy to the point of truncation and paste the text in word and do a character count. Cave-man like, I know! Thank you for the tool! It's in my library now. I’ve already shared this with a couple of my testing colleagues. Though it’s simple, it’s powerful. Before, we’d hold a button for a long time in a field, then copy to the point of truncation and paste the text in word and do a character count. Cave-man like, I know! Thank you for the tool! It’s in my library now.

]]> By: José Alejandro Betancur http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-55125 José Alejandro Betancur Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:21:07 +0000 http://12.165.213.55/blog/?p=22#comment-55125 james, is there a way to tell perlclip to create the $allchars backwards? I figure out that the combination "&#" breaks the application when is used.. and some times some points of the $allchars text backwards also crash apps. <em>[James' Reply: There's no way to do that yet. But it's easy to tweak the code to make that happen.] </em> james,

is there a way to tell perlclip to create the $allchars backwards?

I figure out that the combination “&#” breaks the application when is used.. and some times some points of the $allchars text backwards also crash apps.

[James' Reply: There's no way to do that yet. But it's easy to tweak the code to make that happen.] 

]]> By: Michael Holmes http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-1714 Michael Holmes Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:26:10 +0000 http://12.165.213.55/blog/?p=22#comment-1714 I've used this tool and found it very helpful in things like field validation as suggested in the field - Requirement states that field will accept a maximum input of 200 characters. Great create a string, put it in your automation library, have your automation tool call the string to test the value. Requirement changed? Create a new string with same name! Also have used it for creating large quantities of data for insertion into database applications under test. Testing indexing in databases through creating huge strings and using find and replace to change or strip out the asterisks. Though for both these cases I have also enjoyed using texts from the Project Gutenberg library - (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) I mean Ipsum Lorum does tend to get boring after a while. I’ve used this tool and found it very helpful in things like field validation as suggested in the field - Requirement states that field will accept a maximum input of 200 characters. Great create a string, put it in your automation library, have your automation tool call the string to test the value. Requirement changed? Create a new string with same name!

Also have used it for creating large quantities of data for insertion into database applications under test.
Testing indexing in databases through creating huge strings and using find and replace to change or strip out the asterisks.
Though for both these cases I have also enjoyed using texts from the Project Gutenberg library - (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) I mean Ipsum Lorum does tend to get boring after a while.

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