Software Testing Blogs

Jul
4th

Fri

Links and slides from today’s talk at Tesco.com

I had a really great time today at Tesco.Com — thanks for inviting me to talk about acceptance testing and thanks again for the champagne. Here are the slides and links from the talk:

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Links and slides from the “Effective Test Driven Database Development” talk at SkillsMatter As always, it was a real pleasure to talk at Skills Matter yesterday. Thanks to everyone who attended the talk. There was quite an interest in this talk, and we might do a re-run for the people who…

Latest Column -- Inspired by taking AST's Bug Advocacy Class

Software testing is improved by good bug reporting

I recently completed (successfully, I might add) the second of the Association for Software Testing’s all online, free to members Black Box…

Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework Posted by Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer

We all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced…

Jul
3rd

Thu

Intro, Extra, Energy

“I” stands for “Introvert”. We need time alone;
Invite us to parties and we respond with a groan.
All of that talking! Soon our energy is spent
And back home we flee to recharge in our tent.

“E” is…

Searching For Your Open Source Code One cool thing about developing free open source software is seeing where your code ends up. It is satisfying to know that bits of code you wrote end up in other projects and code bases.

There are…

What does "Broken" mean? “The foo feature is Broken”
“Widgets are completly Horked”
“Gadgets are FuBar under IE7”
“FF3 and the wiki no work-ey”

If you talk to any developer, any PM, or read the testing literature, you’ll…

TEN REASONS TO DRINK THE KOOLAID So sometimes the Contextual Posse is right – I hate it when that happens….

In honor of the 4th of July, here’s a little firecracker…enjoy.

Generally, I dislike the idea of identifying with a…

Log Parser and Batch Files

I am using Log Parser to parse log files. I parse a lot of files and I wanted to make a batch file that will do it for me.

I pasted my commands to a batch file, executed it, and to my surprise,…

A Foolish Consistency Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” He could have also made that point about Web design if he’d lived to be 210 years old. Case in point: This privacy…

I made CNBC.com (in a CAST press release)

High Demand Causes Three-Day Software Testing Conference to Add Fourth Day

Ok, so I know that this is all about CAST, and all about AST being true to it’s word to adapt the conference on the fly…

XSSFilter Released You may have already seen the news about the new XSSFilter in IE8.0 but I wanted to echo it here as well, because it’s a pretty major new release. It does a great job of preventing most of the…

Jul
2nd

Wed

Twitter API vs. Yahoo Web Services - Performance and Reliability I’ve noticed the Twitter API is very slow and unreliable. Requests often take 10+ seconds to return. Sometimes they timeout with no response at all.

I put together some monitoring tools to see…

The Gang Of Four

They developed four axes, with two letters each;
One on the left side, quite out of reach
To those on the right side, far across the breach
Of personality conflicts which cause many to screech.

The…

Is Your Software Ready for Release?

Determining when software is ready for release is one of the hardest parts of product development. Everyone involved has different criteria for “good enough”:

Product management wants the product…