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5 Reasons QA Should be Involved in Requirement Gathering

Most of the focus in managing software requirements has centered on Users and Developers. It seems obvious to do so, doesn’t it? Users are the ones who will use the project, may also be the ones asking for the project, and thus are typically the ones we focus on in requirements elicitation processes. Developers take [...]

Stress/Load-Testing of Asynchronous HTTP/REST Services with JMeter

Although I have been using JMeter for stress- and load-testing of web applications a good few times it took us a while to figure out how to test asynchronous HTTP/REST based services with the tool. With us I mean a fellow programmer – Holger Staudacher, I have the honor to work with currently on a [...]

Dynamics of Exploratory Testing

Whitepaper by Jon and James Bach Two decades after the term “exploratory testing” was invented, many people don’t understand it. Some even call it “monkey testing” — clicking around the screen with only a primal intelligence, hoping to stumble on to a bug. They decry its efficacy because they say the testing steps aren’t precise [...]

Is That Good Or Bad?

Feed from blog.abakas.com Let’s say that I have a program and a set of tests I’ve written. Go me! Now the time has come to change that program. So I go in there and I muck about, and then I run my tests. All my tests pass. Is this good or bad? Good. I was [...]