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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 4 21 Comments Agile Performance Automation Metrics Development Acceptance Exploratory Functional Integration Process Software Strategy Testing Teams Unit Six Sigma selenium Web
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory.

Golden Rules of Testing

Tuesday May 10th 2011 11am Rated 48 8 Comments Agile Testing Process Management Automation Acceptance Integration
I've put together what I think are the golden rules of testing that still apply. So when someone says "that's not how we do it in Agile" (and believe me - they will) don't take none of it and stick with the basics.
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The Meme's the thing

Friday July 31st 2009 3pm Rated -1 8 Comments Agile Automation Development Acceptance Software Testing
At the very end of yesterday's post I mentioned Yo Dawg.

Risk-based testing and the Bowl of Fruit Problem

Friday June 12th 2009 3pm Rated 1 7 Comments Development Acceptance Testing
I've heard this term lately - Risk-Based Testing.

On Yard Work

Tuesday June 9th 2009 12pm Rated 1 6 Comments Development Acceptance Testing Training
This weekend I spent a fair amount of time working in the backyard.

A Brief History of Software Testing

Friday July 16th 2010 6pm Rated 17 5 Comments Test and QA Metrics Development Acceptance Integration Software Testing Unit User
When STP announced the call for nominations for the Software Testing Luminary award, it got me thinking about how software testing came to be a role separate and distinct from software programming with unique and identifiable skills and responsibilities. It also got me thinking about the pioneers who blazed the trails that today’s luminaries strive to bring out of the shadows and into the light, sometimes revealing new trails along the way that improve software’s journey through what I like to call “testerland”.
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The Four Pillars of Testing in an Agile Environment

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 5 Comments Agile Automation Development Exploratory Regression Acceptance Testing Unit Requirements
What’s most important when implementing agile testing in our organization? Learn from a self-made vertical solution provider who brought agile methods to his own company.
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Big Testing Up Front

Thursday March 26th 2009 12pm Rated 0 5 Comments Agile Development Acceptance Software Testing
A more detailed analysis of Big Tests Up Front, an 'Agile' Anti-Pattern

What's a "Test Framework"?

Tuesday September 18th 2007 4pm Rated 0 4 Comments Acceptance selenium
Shrini Kulkarni has been after me to define my terms; after all, I keep writing about "Test Frameworks" but I've never defined the term.

Testers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Friday February 4th 2011 5am Rated 5 3 Comments Acceptance Best Practices Testing Software Quality Assurance Project Management Web Unit
Many people with an ASD – particularly those with Asperger syndrome – have a variety of sometimes exceptional skills that enable them to thrive in roles. An area of proven success is that of software tester.
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A bug story

Wednesday January 19th 2011 11am Rated 4 2 Comments Software Testing Quality Assurance Process Development Acceptance User Web
How do you find corner-case bugs, anyway? Matt Heusser gives a real world example.


Case study of the Resource Ordering & Status System (ROSS) Project

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 3 2 Comments ST&QA Magazine Project Management Management Development Acceptance Integration Unit User
I started on the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project in August, 2005 at one of the largest government contractors in the United States. The U.S. government uses ROSS to order and status resources for numerous types of incidents, mainly wildfires.
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Agile Testing... Why Dig into the Technical Design

Wednesday September 1st 2010 11am Rated 3 2 Comments Agile Development Acceptance Integration Quality Assurance Software Testing Teams Software Test Professionals Conference Web
There are cases where not knowing the inner working of your application is a valid approach to testing. However, I believe that we may make incorrect assumptions when we don’t learn the technical aspects of our software projects and could expose ourselves to unnecessary risks.
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The Gap

Tuesday August 28th 2012 2pm Rated 2 2 Comments Testing Software Acceptance Automation Black Box
Where Matt talks about the Gap between automated checks at the browser level and what human beings actually do

Don't Leave Security for Last

Wednesday March 3rd 2010 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Security Metrics Quality Assurance Management Acceptance Cloud Functional Testing Requirements Research Web
At the peak of the dot-com boom, my firm consulted extensively for large organizations concerned about the risks of Internet-based applications. My experience with one client in particular—we’ll call it Company X to protect its identity—remains the most palpable argument for integrating security throughout the software lifecycle.
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Data-Driven Modeling Scenarios

Tuesday November 10th 2009 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Test and QA Management Acceptance Software Testing User
To get a clear picture of how a system will perform, create a realistic framework built on real-world data.
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Agile Projects: 6 Ways to Avoid the ‘Mini-Waterfall’

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Automation Development Testing Acceptance Functional Regression Teams Unit Web Tools
Don’t let one iteration cascade into the next. Follow these suggestions to streamline your testing.
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A brief, unfair, and wrong history of developer-testing in the 21st Century

Tuesday July 21st 2009 6pm Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Acceptance Testing Unit
Step 1 - Be frustrated with the process heavy and skill-free testing done on most projectsStep 2 - View testing as a clerical process to be automatedStep 3 - Ignore the input of the skilled, competent test community about what testing actually is and their experience automating it Step 4 - Invent TDD and Automated Unit Testing, a Real Good ThingStep 5 - Extrapolate, by the same logic, that Acceptance Tests should be automated in the same fashion, even for GUIsStep 6 - Try ItStep 7 - FailStep 8 - Repeat steps 6&7 if neededStep 9 - Realize that some GUI-driving test automation makes sense in some cases, but it is, essentially, checking, not investigatingStep 10 - Ignore the testing community, who have been saying that for ten yearsStep 11 - Declare myself an expert.

Bacon-Driven Development!

Tuesday April 1st 2008 12pm Rated 0 2 Comments Development Acceptance User
As most folks know, I am increasingly disappointed in X-Driven-Y.
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