February 2010
Why GPS systems are a metaphor for software... →
A while ago I was on my way to see family members. Due to working all the time, I was unfamiliar with the route so I used my GPS. During the journey I had a brainwave, a good GPS system is like a…
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…
Changing Resharper 5 to support... →
When creating test names, I use a BDD style naming convention to describe the behaviour being tested. As such, I like the naming to be in a particular, consistent style. For example: …
Short screencast on test-driven fluent API in Java →
Just thought I’d shamelessly plug my first screencast: Writing Fluent
APIs in Java, Episode 1: Comparing Dates Fluently
I think it’s pretty good for my first one. Enjoy! ;ted
It’s official – We’re doing Exploratory Testing... →
With increasing use of agile methodology, reducing budgets and ever chaning requirements I personally reckon ET (exploratory testing) is now more often required. We all do ET. Sometimes the deadlines…
Through the looking-glass, and what testers found... →
Today it was weekend testing time again, and things got pretty crowded with a pleiad of international testers: facilitators Anna Baik and Markus Gärtner, !ndra from Hyderabad, Shiva Shankari,
Weekend testing EWT05: my first attempt →
I read about it, heard about and received the tweets. I was (indirectly) asked to participate. It should be exciting. It must be something new. So I became curious about it. Initially I started to…
Lets work less →
I’ve long had frustration with how our capitalist system works. Especially since having kids. Things get damn expensive.
This post kind of focuses of the children/family angle, but will…
Evening all, As usual, another blog entry, another... →
Evening all, As usual, another blog entry, another huge gap to write about. Might as well fill it with what we’re trying to do, and how I see it going. Looking at the last post, it’s interesting to…
EWT05 – I can see clearly now →
Date: 13th January 2010
Time: 15:30 – 17:30 GMT
Product Tested: Virtual Magnifying Glass
Mission:
Testers: !ndra from Hyderabad, Shiva Shankari, Krishnaveni K., Nagashree Manjunath,
Expressing My Priorities →
We’ve had a set of tests failing on our continuous integration server for a week or more. That’s a bad thing, since we tend to ignore continuous integration jobs which are not clean almost all the…
IEEE Std 829 Test Plan document (IEEE Standard for... →
A popular template for Test Plan preparation is the format specified by the IEEE 829 standard for Software Test Documentation.
Before we look at the contents of the template, we should bear…
Juggling with Selenium RC, Ruby, .Net and IE →
Last Wednesday I had some time available to do some research in testautomation for websites. It turned out to be quite fruitful even though I hit a dead end. Ready
Anyway, let me start by…
5e speculative background images →
This is the fifth of five quick posts about some browser quirks that have come up in the last few weeks.
Chrome and Safari start downloading background images before all styles are available. If a…
I know you'd have a test case for this !!! →
Here is a question answer session for my blog readers.
Context:
The image at the right was taken at a ticket counter at Bangalore City Railway Station. Passengers wait for their…
What is quality? What is art? Part deux →
I’m so appreciative of the discussion that developed from my previous post. I could see that people commenting were really digging deep, so I decided to address some of what was said in this…
Why Do You Ask? →
I get asked a lot of questions: “Did you test feature X?”
“What if I set up this configuration, what kind of performance could I expect?”
“Can we do this test Y?”
“So we might need to qualify a…
Sauce RC 1.0 Released with Web UI for Selenium RC! →
We’re pleased to announce we just released the new Sauce RC!
Hoping you all find this useful, we created a web interface for anyone to configure Sauce RC from the browser, on the same machine or…
I have no friends →
Well, I do really have some.
But if you would like to learn tips and tricks on how to connect with people on the internet (some people call it social media) then maybe you can come to a wee…
A bugging story on Testers’ Credibility →
A little over a year ago, I earned a reputation of reporting maximum number of severity 3 and 4 defects in the team. This appeared bad at the time as compared to other testers who reported severity 1…
