How to use "ATI Sapphire hd 2600 xt" with Windows 10

A long time ago I have bought "ATI Sapphire hd 2600 xt" video card, then I updated my Windows consequently till Windows 10, that changed drivers for my lovely video card to some "basic" with very low level resolution. AMD said that my card does not supported iin Win10 - http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Win10-Driver-Support.aspx ;( But it is really worked one year or more with Win10!!!

I think problem with some fresh windows update.

One way is uninstall needed. Some of them are "important" and can not be uninstalled via standard GUI. One good man found solution how to force it to do this - http://borncity.com/win/2016/10/21/windows-updates-fehlende-deinstallation-erzwingen/ Thank to him!

Another way - make Win10 works with  "ATI Sapphire hd 2600 xt". Good post with some other advices to revive legacy ATI video card - https://community.amd.com/thread/185041

I my case I made:
1)

"- Open the start menu and type cmd in the search box Right-click on cmd.exe and select Run as administrator

- In the command window, type 

bcdedit /set pciexpress forcedisable

     

Reboot your computer"

2) Windows found needed driver and named video card correctly, but I still had low resolution on my screen. Then I go to video card driver and pres Roll back driver button - and it works!

After some another Windows Update session driver was rewrote again by some Microsoft basic driver.

• I disabled Windows Update service
• Downloaded Legacy AMD Catalyst™ Driver for AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series, run it, when it was unpacked close installation.
• Went to folder with driver, in my case it is - C:\AMD\Support\13-1-legacy_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc\Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF
• Right clicked on first *.inf file, choose Install. It was installed all driver from this file to system.
• Go to Update driver for my ATI Radeon card > Browse my computer > Let me pick from a list of available driver ... > Choose ATI Radeon 2600 XT ...
• Profit!

Pair-wise (or other data combination) testing

Found good word combinations generator with rich parameter configurations - http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/combination-permutation-tools/combination-generator/ 

Examples: for applying A,B,C parameter in some service:

Initial parameters list:

• A
• B
• C

Results (combination by 2 words with ";" delimiter.):

• A;B
• A;C
• B;A
• B;C
• C;A
• C;B

In my case A;B == B;A, so duplicates deleted:

• A;B
• A;C
• B;C

Working comfortable on several git branches simultaneously with ComEmu

As a automation QA engineer I works on different tickets. For example, for some new feature I need to create new autotest, another test is needed to be re-run because developer probably fixed bugs, and it yet another test must be adapted due to test data changed due to service improvements. Some times (and very often - every day)  you need to do all this simultaneously.

How to modify testStepResult fields in SoapUI NG PRO

It was needed to modify standard JUnit style report in SoapUI NG (aka ReadyAPI! tool). testStepResult object has no writable fields ;( , but we know Java and especially its Reflection API ;)

Full problem history - https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-NG/How-to-modify-testStepResult/m-p/135425#M30786

Hi,

I use log processing script (as TestSuite tear down script) used for a lot of our projects.

It gets information (like request URL) from testStepResult. But I need to add more information unique for every test step run into this object testStepResult. But it seems has only get... methods.

Is it possible to add custom fields and values into testStepResult object?

While deep learning Java I  found another solution, but it risky because you can modify testStepResult as much as you can and possibly lost test consistency.  Solution is Java Reflection API in general, but I use version from apache commons FieldUtils library:

In Events window:

import static org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.FieldUtils.writeDeclaredField;

writeDeclaredField(testStepResult, "messages", ["Hiiiiiiiiiiiii!"], true);
log.info testStepResult.getMessages()[0]

Code modify private field  "messages" with List<String> type in testStepResult object.

Output:

<...> :INFO:Hiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Selenium WebDriver: get() vs. navigate().to()?

Question "What is difference between Selenium WebDriver get() and navigate().to() methods" is asked often on QA Automation interview. Answer is  there are the same methods performed HTTP GET request, but Navigation object has more ability to navigate like browser backward(), forward(), etc.

But navigate() method returns browser history in the form of Navigation object.
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javadoc for WebDriver https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.html#get-java.lang.String-

WebDriver.get

void get(java.lang.String url)

Load a new web page in the current browser window. This is done using an HTTP GET operation, and the method will block until the load is complete. This will follow redirects issued either by the server or as a meta-redirect from within the returned HTML. Should a meta-redirect "rest" for any duration of time, it is best to wait until this timeout is over, since should the underlying page change whilst your test is executing the results of future calls against this interface will be against the freshly loaded page. Synonym for WebDriver.Navigation.to(String).

Parameters:

url - The URL to load. It is best to use a fully qualified URL

navigate

WebDriver.Navigation navigate()

An abstraction allowing the driver to access the browser's history and to navigate to a given URL.

Returns:

A WebDriver.Navigation that allows the selection of what to do next

WebDriver.Navigation.to

void to(java.lang.String url)

Load a new web page in the current browser window. This is done using an HTTP GET operation, and the method will block until the load is complete. This will follow redirects issued either by the server or as a meta-redirect from within the returned HTML. Should a meta-redirect "rest" for any duration of time, it is best to wait until this timeout is over, since should the underlying page change whilst your test is executing the results of future calls against this interface will be against the freshly loaded page.

Parameters:

url - The URL to load. It is best to use a fully qualified URL

navigate

WebDriver.Navigation navigate()

An abstraction allowing the driver to access the browser's history and to navigate to a given URL.

Returns:

A WebDriver.Navigation that allows the selection of what to do next

WebDriver.Navigation methods

Method Summary

All MethodsInstance MethodsAbstract Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	back() Move back a single "item" in the browser's history.
void	forward() Move a single "item" forward in the browser's history.
void	refresh() Refresh the current page
void	to(java.lang.String url) Load a new web page in the current browser window.
void	to(java.net.URL url) Overloaded ve