On many projects, you aren’t the subject matter expert and you don’t write the code. In those cases it can be helpful to talk with the subject matter experts and programmers to better understand the…
Quick update after 1 1/2 days of action from our 2nd quarter Bug Battle that’s comparing and evaluating the top six Twitter desktop apps:
1. Tweet Deck 0.25
2. Seesmic DESKTOP
3. …
Problem:
We had instrumented our code to spit out timing markers at various points of pages that were tracked via automation and measured actual end-user download times 24/7 on the production…
I agree you need money to run a business but then…
If you are subscribed to Testing Experience - The magazine for professional testers, you would have got an e-mail recently ( a day or two…
Grig Gheorghiu has compiled a list of all agile testing-related links that he has put into his agile testing blog. Lots of good stuff there.
I recently returned from a short and relaxing vacation to Iceland. It’s a beautiful country and well worth visiting for anyone looking to travel to a place that’s both modern and rugged at the…
#softwaretesting #teamwork
Almost sounds unpleasant doesn’t it? Something that was frowned upon in Victorian times? Well, I am a divergent thinker, and more…
Problem solving and learning…
Realtor.com’s tech team does regarding this issue:
Given that they’ve updated the application since I wrote that post last month, no doubt someone was free to mark…
Pradeep Soundararajan got threatened with lawyers when he criticized Testing Experience magazine for being under the thumb of the ISTQB (for those who don’t yet know, the ISTQB are the guys who want…
On many projects, you aren’t the subject matter expert and you don’t write the code. In those cases it can be helpful to talk with the subject matter experts and programmers to better understand the…
On many projects, you aren’t the subject matter expert and you don’t write the code. In those cases it can be helpful to talk with the subject matter experts and programmers to better understand the…
(not actually Barbara)
About 10 years ago, I was lucky enough to be Employee #9 at a startup software company.
It was a terrific experience. I got to do a bunch of interesting…
I jut saw this interview of Brian Marick on infoq.com.
The things I found most interesting begins at 16:00 Minutes in, I’ve tried to summarize a couple of different ways with direct quotes or…
THIS FINISHED PRODUCT IS NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.
What does that mean? Talk about ambiguous. I have several questions for the maker of the body wash this statement, in all caps, was written on:
1….
This is from my presentation on the Robot Framework at the Agile acceptance testing tools round-up event held on 27 May 2009 at Skills Matter
Robot Framework is a keyword-driven test automation…
No so fresh but “best practices” is not a daily news subject. Best practices should be treated as additional knowledge source, which help us improving processes. On the other hand, best practices…
On many projects, you aren’t the subject matter expert and you don’t write the code. In those cases it can be helpful to talk with the subject matter experts and programmers to better understand the…
I’m well known for promoting philosophy. By philosopher, I mean someone skilled in the exploration, analysis and clarification of meaningful ideas and the processes by which we arrive at those…
On many projects, you aren’t the subject matter expert and you don’t write the code. In those cases it can be helpful to talk with the subject matter experts and programmers to better understand the…
One of the basic things you need to do in QA is do things your Web application wants you to do wrong. For example, take a list of controls and enter data in them in the wrong order. If the…
