February 2010
Find a testing smiley and put it in your desk! →
There’s a weird believe that we Testers need to be pessimistic in order to be good / professional / successful.
In a course I impart (where I am required to use slides made by a colleague)…
Ride the Gravy Train … →
I give presentations to teams at Microsoft often. Some teams want a talk on a specific topic, and other teams just ask me what I want to talk about. It’s a good opportunity for me to try out…
Automation isn’t just regression, Look Around →
Scene 1
One fine Monday morning, I walked across Mark who is a testers and a domain expert in the application to which I am pretty new.
ME: “Hey, café?”
Mark: “No dude just received this list of…
Automation isn’t just regression, Look Around →
Scene 1
One fine Monday morning, I walked across Mark who is a testers and a domain expert in the application to which I am pretty new.
ME: “Hey, café?”
Mark: “No dude just received this list of…
WT25 Experience report →
The mission
My personal mission for today:
Work on my note taking skills. During the last sessions I always used pen&paper but this means that in the end I have to move everything into the digital…
Google Buzz Security Flaw →
… Speaking of Google, I got an email from TrainReq (the same fellow who allegedly hacked Miley Cyrus for those who don’t keep up to date on your tween idols). The email was regarding an exploit…
Testing my backbone →
I’m a nice person. Well, I like to think I’m a nice person anyhow, and some people tell me that’s true too. Especially my kids, they tell me I’m the best Mum in the world. Aw…
The Everything Else →
When you work with a piece of software, you can break it down into two basic camps: (1) the software; and (2) everything else around the software. The everything else around the software includes…
Email Management: PIFEM is a clear winner ! →
Almost a year ago (wow, times really fly !) I’ve shared with you an email management system I was starting to use. During this year, I’ve shared this system with as many people as possible…
New Meeting Location for February. →
We will be meeting at the FIS/Metavante offices at 1200 Sovereign Row. The meeting is still from 4:30pm to 6pm.
Directions
From I-40, take Meridian South
Turn Left at Will Rogers Parkway
Turn…
Emergent Opportunity →
Yes, I’ll blog tomorrow (and more to come after that) about what actually happens in software testing, but I’ve got something to share today that is time-sensitive:
The Call for Participation in…
A Super Bowl experience: How third party scripts... →
I just recently came across a great article titled How tracking scripts affect page loads… can Google Analytics kill my web app?:
This post explains script blocking, and then shows how to…
Active Directory Scripting – create User Account →
How to create User Account
Description
User Account object could be created within its container object – Organizational Unit. The example below is based on the assumption that we successfully retrieved an instance of Organizational Unit
JRuby + Jetlang => Awesome Message Passing... →
It has been quiet sometime since I played around with JRuby.. The last I seriously worked on JRuby was during schnell-jruby age :). And now that celerity has taken the main stage I was back in MRI…
Buzzing →
I have two Gmail accounts, recently I logged into the second account which I use very rarely and I have only my other Gmail account in contacts list.
I went into the buzz folder and I found that it…
What are you doing lately to raise your value on... →
What are you doing lately to raise your value on the market?
The market is pretty bad these days; it has picked up a bit but not much. Many of us, who are seniors, have a problem finding a decent…
Verizon Palm Pre Plus & Palm Pixi Plus →
The two phones are mine for testing for the next two weeks. It’s going to take me a lot of playing and reading to figure out the web OS, but I’ll do it. Hopefully I’ll get some…
Browser Performance Wishlist →
What are the most important changes browsers could make to improve performance?
This document is my answer to that question. This is mainly for browser developers, although web developers will…
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Brave New World →
Well due to my new found interest in Twitter I stubbled across STC and decided I might as well sign up, so here I am. Not read any other blogs on here yet so I’m going in blind here and thought I…
Handling page timeout errors in BrowserMob →
Our use of a real web browsers makes it really easy to do website load testing and monitoring. By default a page is considered to have timed out if the page “onload event” can’t fire within 30…
Google where's the Buzz, not from the users. →
I was reading Jeff Jarvis blog this morning which takes a bit of a poke at google’s social
networking site buzz. Jeff lists a whole lot of issues that have annoyed a lot
of users. I have never…
Meeting Announcement- Evening Meeting 4:30pm-6pm... →
NEWS - We’re moving to evenings to accommodate your busy work schedule! Time and Location The Red Earth QA’s meeting will be held on the 3rd floor of 100 N. Broadway from 4:30pm -6pm on…
Nevermind, I Was Wrong, Google Is Evil →
I’ve been waiting a while to do this post - several weeks actually since my original post. In that post, I applauded Google’s apparent interest in reigning censorship as “the first really truly…
Please Help - CodeRetreat Tour Videos →
As I’m traveling around this year on the coreyhaines coderetreat tour 2010, I’ll be doing video interviews with people I meet. These will be very similar to the videos that I did during the 2008/2009…
Goals →
Now that choosing a new team member is complete, it is time to formalize goals for the QA department moving forward. When I started here, QA was a footnote to the development process. The engineers…
Writing automated business-facing tests →
Since I work in a more traditional orientated environment, I’m facing some questions regarding the usage of test frameworks such as FitNesse, Robot Framework or Concordion. The biggest problem…
European Weekend Testing - 04 #EWT04 →
Date : 06 – 02 -2010 Time : 3 – 5 pm GMT (3-4 Testing and 4-5 Debriefing) Mission :
You are contracted by three stakeholders to evaluate URL shortening services. The stakeholders are
• A heavy…
How TMap Next is used for automated testing →
Automate testing is hot. It has been hot since I work in the software testing business. It will be hot for a long time now. Often I hear arguments about automated test tools are shelf ware.
Sometimes I hear automated testing by the book is not possible. I might have formed an opinion that the Test Approach:
European weekend Testing–05 # EWT05 →
Date: 13-02-2010 Time: 3 pm – 5 pm GMT (3-4 pm Testing & 4-5 pm Debriefing). Mission:To test the below mentioned application and Find quality related valuable information about the product. …
Improve Your Communication Skills To Create Better... →
Writing great software requires a lot of communication, and not just the client-to-server variety; person-to-person communication is crucial in a well-performing team. While it’s easy to focus…
Exploratory Testing and Scrums →
I was having a conversation with Michael Bolton (www.developsense.com) and we started to discuss how ET can be incorporated effectively within agile scrums. After a few minutes of chatting Michael…
Craft, Art, Creative Work, or Engineering? →
If you’ve read this blog very long, you’re probably familiar with the struggle between a factory-like production model (or at least the cliche command-and-control 1950’s version of it), and the…
If most testers couldn't lie →
Proper Testing on the Toilet! →
Now you can do some proper testing on the toilet! (aka TotT) eh? Yeh the new STC magazine is out! Wahoo! Print off your copy and have a peruse at your leisure. There is some fantastic stuff in…
Welcome Back to Mobile, Microsoft →
Well this beats my harebrained idea of slapping a 3G chip in a Zune HD…
Today Microsoft did more than answer my little rant below where I begged them to make WinMo 7 awesome, they obliterated…
Make your mind up - cute or techy ? →
Error messages like the one above annoy me. Firstly they try to hide the fact that they have messed up by being cutesy and use a word like ‘Whoops’ Then they compound that by giving a techy…
Why consistency is overrated →
I’ve recently had a number of discussions with various different people around consistency. There a few really good reasons why you should be consistent in your development approach. Being able to…
Hey – who’s the tester anyway? →
When I talk to customers about using test tools, often enough, there are widely varying expectations on what the tool needs to do. Predictably, the generalist testers want a simple, easy to use…
Save Successes →
A test can have three results:
ran and passed
ran and failed
didn’t run
Often, we focus on the tests that run and fail. Those tests are describing problems or potential problems with your product….
4 Great GUI Mockup Tools for Tolerable Prices →
Again, it is time to count something, but again in an important case. Many times I wrote about how important to overall qualit,y it is to carry out prototype, the paper, whiteboard and those…
QA Anthem: Make Your Week Epic →
It’s the start of another week, but how about we make it an epic week?
Whenever I hear this song, I feel like tearing off my shirt, picking up the family claymore, painting my face, and charging…
Another Take on the Five Orders of Ignorance →
I came across a post this weekend about different types of knowledge It’s a well written post that calls out one of my favorite topics – you don’t know what you don’t know. I think the Five…
What Software Testing can learn from Basketball,... →
I beg forgiveness to all NBA fans, since this post relates mainly to all the rest of the basketball leagues (College-league, Euro-league, etc.) where most players are mere mortals
I read a…
Common reasons why users find issues post release →
Here’s a familiar scenario: Testers spend months or longer, testing a product. Once the product is released, users report bugs that were not found by the testing team. The question that gets asked…
Multi-Mechanize - new open source performance... →
To all perfmormance and load testers out there…
I am working on a new tool/framework for web load testing. yes, that’s right, another one.
My last tool, Pylot, was very limited because of…
embedded software testing →
I have got a chance to work at www.aitecs.com as software tester for five months. It was a great experience for me as a tester and want to share with some impressions. 1. Same rules. The first lesson…
A Smattering of Selenium #11 →
So it has been just over 2 months since the last Smattering of Selenium and a lot has happened; not including starting my own Selenium consultancy / startup called Element 34 and inked a deal for…
Quality Assurance Director Spil Games b.v. →
SPIL GAMES plays a leading role in shaping the future of the games industry with strong ambitions , game expertise, and vast understanding of target markets. This empowers us to truly listen to our…
I’m blocked… but why? →
“There is no such thing as writer’s block for writers whose standards are low enough.” American Poet William Stafford
I am blocked for any interesting writing for over a month or so. And this…