Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

I read a few blogs. I monitor a few mailing lists. When I read a post, I like to know how that person looks like. I guess that I am one of those visual types. (My image is at every page of this blog.) And sometimes it is not an easy task to find it out. So, I found images of a few testers (not in any specific order):

• Michael J. Hunter
• Jonathan Kohl
• Elisabeth Hendrickson
• Cem Kaner
• Brian Marick
• Bret Pettichord
• James Bach
• Michael Bolton (not so sure about him)

I tagged them as tester at my delicious account (del.icio.us/zeljko.filipin/tester). I will be adding more, as I find more images. If you are a tester, or you have found images of other testers, leave a link to image in comments.

Sapna asked how to extract id from this link.

RE: Check Copy Request

The solution includes using MatchData. I use it rarely, and I always forget how it is used. So, every time I need it, I have to read documentation. I have decided to make a note here, so I could easily find it later.

This is how you can get href attribute of that link. I will assumed that he knows text (“RE: Check Copy Request”).

ie.link(:text, “RE: Check Copy Request”).href
=> “MessageDetail.aspx?id=1303&messageToUser=True”

This will extract 1303.

m = /id=(1303)/.match(ie.link(:text, “RE: Check Copy Request”).href)
=> #

m[1]
=> “1303″