Association for Software Testing

In Praise of Self-Funding (Abakas)

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Lately it seems my life is consumed with pitching to investors. I’m not pitching personally, but I’ve been talking to a lot of people who are, and I’ve worked on a few pitch decks for clients in the last month or so. It’s been interesting.

It’s also made me think. Why pitch? Why take investment at all?

What’s good about taking investments:

Yay money!
When we have money we can spend money strategically, whether that’s on marketing, development, infrastructure, or whatever.
Yay advisors! These are now invested advisors, so they extra want you to succeed. After all, it’s their money (Read more...)

Updated: #STPsummit: Agile Transitions, Day 2 (TESTHEAD)

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Just like yesterday, this is a “Live Blog” effort.

And we are back for day two of the STP Online summit for “Agile Transitions”.

Today’s focus is, again, meant to help give some “How’s” to play with, and today’s panel will be giving us three somewhat familiar faces to see and listen to (well, I’m very familiar with the three, your mileage may vary, but if you are not familiar with Lisa Crispin, Selena Delesie and Lanette Creamer… you need to get out more ).

The first talk for today (Session 4) is from Lisa Crispin, and Lisa’s take on (Read more...)

Mind Hunters a Software Testing Training Institute in Pune (a Flying Tester...)

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:03:59 +0000

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ by Mahatma Gandhi. Mind Hunters is a Software Testing Institute located in Kothrud Pune. The Key features of the institute are: Syllabus is according to BBST (Black Box Software Testing) standards Follows ‘TCS 2.0’ (Testing Computer Software ), ‘Lessons learned in Software Testing’, ‘General System [...]

#STPSummit: Agile Transitions, Day 1 (TESTHEAD)

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:00 +0000

This is a “Live Blog”, meaning it will be frequently updated during the day.

Today is day one for the Agile Transitions Online Summit that SoftwareTestPro.com is sponsoring. I had the pleasure to be asked to be one of the speakers for this online conference (I’ll be doing my part on Thursday at 11:00 AM PST), but until then, I get to participate and hear the other speakers… and in a greatly abridged and condensed manner, so can you .

The first talk was given by Scot Barber, and kicked off the conversation with “What is Agile, Really?” There’s so (Read more...)

Quality Assurance and Crowd Testing Survey (Transform QA Philosophy with Test Automation and Crowd Testing)

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:23:00 +0000

In the new Google society, processes such as crowd testing are gaining steam, along with utilization of automation tools that are changing the landscape. We are in partnership with Forte Group conducting a study on the trends in Software Quality Assurance and Crowd Testing. In return for your participation, we are giving away a $100 and a $50 Amazon gift card to 2 respondents randomly selected. More importantly, our publication based on the responses will provide valuable insight to where this space is headed. We will distribute results of the survey to all participants. Click the link below to enter (Read more...)

Testing? Thoughts? Idea? What? (Have you ever danced with the tester?)

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Yesterday I tried a experiement I’d been toying with in my head.

I’ve been with a organisation for roughly 8mths now and I’ve not actually had a lot of time to spend with the Testers as we’ve all been busy and I wanted to know more about how they think and what they think about what they do.

My role has changed slightly now and I have more time to work with the Testers and so yesterday was the

Agile Practitioners meetup – ‘In Theory and in Practice’ (Have you ever danced with the tester?)

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:57:00 +0000

Last night I attended an Agile Practitioners meetup where Daryn* gave a talked titled ‘InTheory and in Practice’.

Here are my notes from last night and the Italics are my thoughts
He took us through a recent project (for a client) to build a Excel plug-in which connected to a third party. Didn’t really go into complexity, wonder if the same approach would work with a larger team.
TDD and BDD

Forwards & Backwards (Exploring Uncertainty)

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:03:34 +0000

A little while ago, I wrote about “testing backwards”. In her comments, Savita pointed out that when testing backwards, I was actually doing exploratory testing. This is true; though it might be more accurate to say that I was using types of reasoning that tend to be more common in exploratory testing than in “testing forwards”.

When we test forwards we tend to rely heavily on deduction, i.e. predicting a result based on a rule. There are other forms of reasoning: induction and abduction. Each has an important part to play in testing. When you test, (Read more...)

Test Freeway (Transform QA Philosophy with Test Automation and Crowd Testing)

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Test freeway

View more PowerPoint from BugPub

May You Live in Interesting Times (TESTHEAD)

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:04:00 +0000

One of my favorite Dan Carlin “Hardcore History” Podcasts is the one he did with James Burke. As many of you may know, I happen to be a huge fan of James Burke, and his series “Connections 1″, “Connections 2″, ”Connections 3″ and “The Day the Universe Changed”. One of Dan’s first questions to Dr. Burke was if he thought we lived in interesting times (the famous double edged Chinese Proverb of uncertain origin, but familiar to many).

Dr. Burke’s answer was that pretty much anyone felt that they lived in interesting time based on the context of their (Read more...)