Testing, fun? Really?
Testing. Yuck! Puh! Aagh! I’ve always hated testing. Testing, both unit and functional, is something that gets in the way of the “real” work. Everyone knows that their code is perfect, right? In the unlikely…
SOA Test Approach: The Purpose and How To Do It
Testing SOA could be viewed as a complex computing problem. With any complex problem, the key is to break it down into smaller, more manageable components and build quality into these deliverables. The foundations to…
Software Testing: Theory on Defect Detection
Theory: A defect can only be discovered in an environment that contains the defect.
This seems very obvious! So why even bother to mention it, let alone post a blog entry about it? The…
The Five Goals of Software Testing
Testing can mean many different things depending on who is doing it, and where in a process it is being performed. The programmers, administrators, users, and consultants all have something different in mind when they…
Some Tips For Testing Your iPad Application
By Debi Zylbermann and Josh Kounitz
In addition to typical software testing methods, there are other important factors to keep in mind when testing your iPad app. First, test on a real iPad. Although…
Video: The Tough Questions About Testing
Unit testing is a part of Test-Driven Development, but TDD is not only about Unit testing. In TDD, you usually write tests before you write any application code, and these test serve as documentation. However…
Testing Email Sending
Recently I learned a couple of interesting things related to sending emails. One doesn’t relate to .NET at all, so if you’re a developer and you want to easily be able to test whether or…
Testing in Production
Do you ever test your code after it has been deployed to production ? During my first few years programming, I thought this was a bad idea and was told repeatedly told not to test…
Simulate Slow Internet Connection while Testing your Apps
So you have your Next-gen cool Web 2.0 application ready! You have tested it on your LAN environment and on your high speed internet connection – all seems ok and you are ready to deploy…
The Coming Shortage of Software Testers
Imagine a world where software testers are courted and wooed like LeBron James; where online job boards are littered with “Testers Wanted” posts and where everyone can finally spell “QA” correctly. In other words, imagine…
