I know… these two words aren’t seen very often in today’s world.
As a marketplace, uTest builds supply (testers) and demand (customers) for software testing services. And since we have 15,000+…
When I got my first impression of this group, I was very careful to hold back public judgement. It looked really bad, but I wanted to find out more before making public statements.
Two more data…
A colleague recently described the requirements process in his (non-Agile) organization to me. In their process, the business people talk to the business analysts who talk to the systems analysts…
A great tool to analyze your blog: http://typealyzer.com/
(Found this tool referenced at Mark Little’s blog: http://markclittle.blogspot.com/)
This month sees the launch of Good Tester. A collaborative tabloid newspaper with a hint of sarcasm and humor. The newspaper can be found here:
Studies prove that QA salaries lag behind developers:
Vindictiveness doesn’t pay. This has been demonstrated by a current study at Bonn and Maastricht Universities. According to this study, a…
I just ordered a new laptop for home. This will be used as my workstation/desktop replacement.
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope comes out April 23, and this machine will get a fresh copy. I’m hoping all…
Some simple advice on automating tests.
Automated tests are a very useful and impressive tool used to make testing more efficient. However, automated tests are not suited to all projects – this may…
by Miško Hevery
I have already hinted that your code should either be in the business of doing business logic or in the business of instantiating and wiring other objects together. What this…
This tutorial talks your through the process of setting up a Selenium Grid. It walks your through the process of creating the Selenium Hub and then registering nodes that can then be used by just…
As some of you may have noticed, there’s a lot more going on in the SSL world and a lot more to come thanks to guys like Mike Zusman, Alex Sotirov Moxie Marlinspike and so on… Papers forthcoming,…
The World Agile Qualifications Board should be seen as an embarrassment even to regular peddlers of certification.
The WAQB has apparently been established recently—but when? By whom? There is a…
Scotts grass tries so hard with its Spring 2009 e-mail, but although it provides decent alt text for some images (Scotts Lawn Photo, Beautiful Lawn Photo, and so on), the filename displays for the…
The next opensource .net evening in Skills Matter will be on the 15th of April, with two talks:
David Ross: NBehaveNBehave is a .NET tool for Behaviour-driven development (BDD), an evolution of…
Sometimes when I’m trying to think of a new test condition, I stand back and think of the functionality in terms of objects and actions. What is this object I’m testing? And then what are all the…
For those who are not up to date with the latest buzzwords SaaS stands for Software as a Service; it means that the software platform is hosted and managed by the vendor and users simply open their…
At the SQLBits Goes Forth conference in Manchester today, Ramesh Meyyappan demonstrated impacts of some new SQL Server 2008 features on query performance. One topic he tackled in particular is…
Thanks for attending the talk today! You can download the slides from here.
