What’s our job as testers? Reporting bugs, right? When I first started reading about Session-Based Test Management, I was intrigued by the session sheet. At the top, there’s a bunch of metadata about the session—the charter, the coverage areas, who did the testing, when they started, how long it took, and how much time was [...]
Back in 2006, I was blogging on the Radio Userland platform. In that year I was reading a lot and writing a lot of book reviews as blog posts. Today I came upon an old one that I thought I would put on this blog. Enjoy: The Polaris System Development (Harvey M. Sapolsky) This book [...]
So today is a double shot of Weekend Testing!
I hosted a Weekend testing event this morning/afternoon with Weekend Tester’s Americas (and we had a pretty excellent turnout, too, 23 attendees!), and I’m also attending the Weekend Testing Australia New…
What is the important part of a test?Why do so many companies track them step by step? Is it the charts? Business people LOVE the chart, the number, show me how you saved money/earned money. What is the bottom line? Why do I pay for this? They want to …
So this was an interesting experiment!
Matt came to the Bay Area for SocialText’s all hands meeting, and as he was here, he thought it would be fun to have a bunch of people get together for a “tester’s dinner” while he was here. Since he …
I was lucky enough to come of age in a software world in which web development was just starting to become really accessible. My first computer dialed up to the Internet using Juno, and then we got AOL. By the time I was in college, we had people putti…
In June of last year I blogged here sharing that I had created a resource page on my website with a listing of mnemonics. I spent many hours and was excited to find a sizable list at the time. It seems the software testing community has been busy since then crafting new mnemonics and revising [...]
This is the seventh entry for the TESTHEAD PRACTICUM review of PACKT Publishing’s book Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginners Guide by David Burns. The emphasis on this type of review is the actual exercises and the practical applications of what we le…
I am excited to share the latest addition to the mnemonic listing on my Resources page. My colleague and friend Nancy Kelln recently posted “International SPIES in Testing” sharing her new mnemonic SPIES for testing internationalization. SPIES stands for: Special Characters Pages & Content Integrations Error Messages Special Formats Read Nancy’s post here for more [...]
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