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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.

Six Shocking Automation Truths

Tuesday August 3rd 2010 8am Rated 46 15 Comments Automation Best Practices Software Test Professionals Conference Software Web
By: Adam Goucher, Principal of Element 34 and STP 2010 conference speaker. These truths are shocking not only because they are counter to the prevailing best practices in the industry but because they can cause me – the consultant – to lose a billable opportunity. A client who saves money but achieves their objectives is often the happiest client.
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Why Agile? Why Now?

Thursday November 5th 2009 8pm Rated 1 10 Comments Agile Automation Development Software Testing
I've noticed something really odd in the past three months - I've started to write articles about Agile Software Testing.

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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Automation Testing versus Manual Testing Guidelines

Tuesday October 26th 2010 11am Rated 22 8 Comments Automation Test and QA Testing
I met with my team’s automation experts a few weeks back to get their input on when to automate and when to manually test. The general rule of thumb has always been to use common sense. If you’re only going to run the test one or two times or the test is really expensive to automation, it is most likely a manual test. But then again, what good is saying “use common sense” when you need to come up with deterministic set of guidelines on how and when to automate?
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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.

Achieving Value with Automated Acceptance Tests

Monday October 10th 2011 12am Rated 7 7 Comments Automation

The Automated Testing Handbook

Wednesday June 9th 2010 1pm Rated 17 6 Comments Automation Quality Assurance Test and QA Technology Testing
The risk of software failure has never been greater. The estimated annual economic impact ranges from $60 billion for poor testing to $100 billion in lost revenues and increased costs. Unfortunately, market pressure for the delivery of new functionality and applications has also never been stronger. This combination creates increasing pressure on software test organizations to improve test coverage while meeting ever-shorter deadlines with static or even declining resources. The only practical means to achieving quality goals within the constraints of schedules and budgets is to automate.
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Tips on Improving Test Coverage

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 9 6 Comments Testing Agile Management Automation Development Functional Process Software Strategy Software Test Professionals Conference
I guess you are familiar with the situation. Testers have finished performing all planned tests and finally there are no high priority defects left unresolved. After the celebration is over, the application goes to production. The next day some customers are already complaining that they can’t even install the product. The whole engineering organization is embarrassed. why did it work in the testing lab, but not work in the customers’ environments? how did we miss the bugs that the customers reported? The subject of this article is to answer these tough questions by using proven practical tips.
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Don'ts of Automation

Tuesday January 25th 2011 1pm Rated 7 6 Comments Agile Automation
Let's talk about some common mistakes organizations make while hurrying up on the automation effort. Some of the DONTs in this article are applicable for any kind of software considered for automation while others are strictly catered to testing e-commerce applications...
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Why I /like/ Behavior Driven Development

Monday August 24th 2009 2pm Rated 0 6 Comments Automation Development
Long-time readers of Creative Chaos will know that I'm not a big fan of X-drive-Y processes.

Exploratory Automated Testing - Download

Tuesday June 22nd 2010 8am Rated 3 5 Comments Exploratory Automation Testing
What is Exploratory Testing? The most common definition of exploratory testing was provided by Cem Kaner and James Bach: "Exploratory testing is simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution." (Exploratory Testing Explained by James Bach, v.1.3)...
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Test Automation - IV

Friday August 3rd 2007 11am Rated 1 5 Comments Agile Security Automation Functional Testing Tools
Right now one of the "louder voices in the room" for test automation is the "Agile" test automation voice.

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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The Testing Industry's Automated Testing Tool Conundrum – and the Proposed Solution

Friday April 26th 7am Rated 7 4 Comments Automation Testing
Most currently available automated software testing tools are platform-, technology- and/or operating system dependent. For example, you’ll find the typical testing tool vendor website provides a section on “Technologies Supported” and one vendor’s tool strength will be in the windows desktop market, while another’s might be in the browser market or in a combination of markets, but none will support all technology markets.

Automation Works When You Do

Saturday May 1st 2010 12am Rated 5 4 Comments Functional Life Cycle Process Quality Assurance Regression Test and QA Testing Automation
Why is the majority of testing still performed manually? True, many tools are too hard to use and maintain, but is that the only reason? Read on to find out what it really takes to make automation successful.

How to Successfully Build an Automation Program

Tuesday August 30th 2011 12am Rated 3 4 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Automation
To effectively implement an automation program, the same approach and similar effort is needed when building complex software. You will be integrating a system with many parts as well as software (i.e. scripts and glue software). Additionally, to complicate things the automation software will be interfacing with another application (application under test). Therefore the same lessons learned in building systems and software should be applied to your automation project.

The Relationship of Testing Tools to Economics & Freedom

Thursday October 7th 2010 9am Rated 3 4 Comments Automation Testing Membership Software Software Test Professionals Conference Web Tools
Article by Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2011 conference speaker, Adam Goucher. Adam is a consultant who in this article, gives tips to understanding the complexities of acquiring testing tools and justifying their costs. How does a tester develop a business case to acquiring a new testing tool that gives testing the freedom it deserves.
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Automatic Automation

Monday May 3rd 2010 1pm Rated 2 4 Comments Automation User
Not too long ago, and not too far away, I was a software developer for an insurance company, and I worked on a system called filemover.

Testing Centers of Excellence

Monday February 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 4 Comments Best Practices Management Automation Development Case Study Process Technology Certification Services Functional Integration Software Testing Unit Web offshore Tools
CA is using its global test facilities to raise the bar on product quality and time to market.
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