[My money] - April 2008 - $58.81

This is a report about money which was earned during the April 2008.
As you can see, my readers helped me to earn $58.81:

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Google AdSense brings this money... Every time readers click Ad links, the counter increases.
It's simple enough, isn't it? :)

Like last time, I'm planning to contribute this money to automated testing community.
As you remember, the winner then was Charlie Weiblen.


And now I'm going to start a new initiative.
I announce A competition for the best articles on QTP (QuickTest Professional).


What is the prize for a winner?
I'll give all money, earned during April 2008 - $58.81.

What to do?
You have to write an article on any aspect of working with QTP. It can be an interesting solution you investigated, or it can be an understandable description of any QTP feature, or any QTP tool trick, or maybe video on QTP, etc.

How to send prepared articles?
There are different variants. You can place them in your blog or site. Do not forget to mention this competition. And notify me by sending email.
If you don't have a blog or site - don't worry! You can email your article to me and I will publish it in my blog (if you don't mind). So, you will be a part of the team!

What are the criteria for evaluation?
Hm... It's difficult to answer. How the quality of music, films, or paintings could be evaluated?
I think, it's impossible. So, I will evaluate according to my subjective opinion...

Why do I do that?
I just want to do something useful. And I want to help to all my colleagues, who work in a field of automated testing.
I wish that we were one team!

How to contact me?



Thank you in advance, my readers!

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Dmitry Motevich

LoadRunner RegExp - Challenge resolved

Great news! The challenge, I posted about using Regular Exprassions in Loadrunner, has been resolved! I wondered - how to use RegExp in LoadRunner.

The winner is Charlie Weiblen. Congratulations, Charlie! Hooray! :)
He proposed the following solution - Regular Expressions in LoadRunner. Yes, it allows to use Regular expressions in LoadRunner and his solution works perfectly.

Also, I recommend to pay attention to his site - Performance engineering & testing. It contains a lot of interesting information on Performance testing and LoadRunner in particular.

As I promised, the reward is $52.25. Since Charlie asked me to donate this money to FSF (Free Software Foundation), I did so.

I captured screen shots to confirm that I donated money as I promised - $52.25. (Please, click on images to enlarge them):

Donation page #1

Donation page #2

Donation page #3

Confirmation email from FSF (Free Software Foundation)

Well, what's next?

• First of all, I recommend to read solution from Tim Koopmans - Regex Pattern Matching in LoadRunner.
  Tim updated and simplified Charlie's solution. It looks simple and clear.
  Great work, Tim!
  
• I developed Charlie's and Tim's solutions to search several matches or nested groups.
  I plan to publish it within the next few days.

Also, I would like to ask your advice.
Dear readers, do you have interesting topics for future community challenges? Please, post your comments and share them...

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Dmitry Motevich

[My money] - March 2008 - $52.25

As you can see, I use AdSense on my blog.
Note: AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google.

My readers help me to earn money (not so much as I would wish :) ).

That's why I think, that I must share the statistics on money I earned on blog.
I plan to share the statistics on monthly basis.

Please, see the statistics on last month - March 2008:

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As you can see, I earned $52.25 during March 2008.

How to spend them?

I promise to pay this money to person who will be ready to share how to use regular expressions in LoadRunner. So, investigate this question and will earn $52.25!

Updated:
Please read about the result of the current competition - LoadRunner RegExp - Challenge resolved.

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Do you have others ideas on how to use future money? I'm interested to hear your opinion.
Please, send them to my email:
Thank you in advance

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Dmitry Motevich