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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 5 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.

Metrics, Schmetrics

Thursday May 7th 2009 1pm Rated 0 13 Comments Metrics Development Software
Long-time readers will know that I am very wary of metrics for software engineering.

Why Agile? Why Now?

Thursday November 5th 2009 8pm Rated 0 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.

Conferences on the cheap

Monday January 18th 2010 3pm Rated 0 9 Comments Agile Development Open Source Process Quality Assurance Software Testing Unit Research
I went to my first major software conference in 2003 - the Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon.

The tyranny of the deadline

Tuesday October 6th 2009 12pm Rated 0 8 Comments Development Software
Hang around software development or testing long enough, read enough blogs and books, and sooner or later, you are likely to hear the great crisis talk.

The Meme's the thing

Friday July 31st 2009 3pm Rated 0 8 Comments Agile Automation Development Acceptance Software Testing
At the very end of yesterday's post I mentioned Yo Dawg.

The Agile Process Creates Testing Puzzles... Which Are Solved When Agile Is Performed Correctly

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 8 Comments Agile Development Process Performance Software Testing Unit User Requirements
Boon the mankind or over-hyped fad? Read this point-counterpoint and decide for yourself.
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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.

Ways to Improve Your Software Testing Skills

Wednesday September 1st 2010 8am Rated 16 6 Comments Test and QA Conference Presentations Development How To Training Agile Black Box Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
Ongoing self-discovery and learning have been critical in my own skills growth, and in managing test departments. Even after mastering a technique or achieving a desired outcome, my experiences have shown there is always a better way to do something. Learning new skills is critical for being able to discover those improvements.
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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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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.

On Yard Work

Tuesday June 9th 2009 12pm Rated 0 6 Comments Development Acceptance Testing Training
This weekend I spent a fair amount of time working in the backyard.

Post-Modern Software Development

Wednesday October 25th 2006 3pm Rated 0 6 Comments Development Software Testing Requirements podcast
About a year ago I had an interesting discussion with Jonathan Kohl and Mike Kelly about modernism vs.

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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Are We in the Business of Quality Assurance or Quality Review?

Tuesday July 6th 2010 11am Rated 11 5 Comments Test and QA Quality Assurance Development Life Cycle Software Testing
There is a lot of discussion around the term Quality Assurance in the testing arena. Michael Bolton has a very popular Blog Post he is turning into a session at our October conference called “Testers get out of the Quality Assurance Business”. Words do mean things, and the change of positioning although seemingly small can often bring about greater understanding of the things we do in software testing, within the bigger picture of QA.
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Naïve Metrics

Wednesday January 20th 2010 5pm Rated 0 5 Comments Performance Metrics Development
Let's say you don't know anything about software testing.

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

Building Your Testing Reputation

Monday March 7th 2011 10am Rated 15 4 Comments Testing Development Black Box Software
“ You need someone in the organization that can mentor your career goals and believes that you are a good fit for promotion. It helps if that someone is your boss with a direct line to the CEO .”
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QA & Charge Testing - Billing Is Important

Thursday March 10th 2011 9am Rated 3 4 Comments Quality Assurance Testing Development Software Software Test Professionals Conference
Those three little words really rock my world in my role as a Quality Assurance Specialist in Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). While we frequently have the opportunity to test software used to monitor, treat, and diagnose patients, we cannot lose sight of the fact that those orders and procedures we create during integrated system testing need to generate billing charges downstream...
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