Testing Excellence

Context-Free Questions for Testing

In Jerry Weinberg and Don Gause’s Exploring Requirements, there’s a set of context-free questions to ask about a product or service. The authors call them context-free questions, but to me, many of them are more like context-revealing questions. In the Rapid Software Testing class, the participants and the instructors make discoveries courtesy of our exercises [...]

Who is making software testers, dumb and bad?

Not so long ago, I thought there existed a set of testers called, “bad testers”. I hated them. I wanted to punch them on their face and get their face to bleed. I wanted to become a powerful politician and kill them all and escape without being charged for genocide. I wanted to become a [...]

Apple, Google and Microsoft – Who Will Be Victorious?

Recently there as been a lot of news and analysis about the relative positions of Google, Microsoft and Apple in the IT industry. In many ways, it appears that the three companies are bitter rivals and locked in a struggle to dominant the future of computing. The question many people are asking is how will [...]

Performance Testing Metrics

Performance testing is a particularly common question in our experience with our clients and prospects. We have encountered situations where understanding what constituted good performance was not clear at the beginning of a test effort. Benchmarking web services usually involved simulating lots of users and sending lots of messages to simulate a heavy production situation. [...]

Combinatorial testing: Invalid Combinations & Output Condition

I am finally getting caught up at work after the trip to Korea and Israel. I managed to cut the lawn in the front of my house on Sunday, but still have an acre and a half in the back yard to tend to, rake some leaves, till the garden, tend to the pond, and [...]

Independent software testing standard complete next week

A software testing standard, which ingrains processes into an organisation throughout software development to pick up bugs before software goes live, will be complete next week when its final level of accreditation is launched.. The independent TMMi testing methodology, which is an alternative to Capgemini Sogeti’s Test Process Improvement (TPI) methodology, will have its level [...]

Wasting Your Time By Not Writing Tests

Automation is the key to successful testing. This post explains why other ways of software verification are a waste of time. If You Don’t Test Then …? Even if you don’t write tests you surely perform some other operations to verify that your code works properly. In order to make sure sure that the code [...]

2 Things To Make Test Leading Job Easy

As test leads we have several responsibilities between testing, manging project, testing, test planning, etc. You can do these two things daily to make your life more manageable and easier. Keep a Test Journal It doesnt have to be formal but just an informal way to document everything that happens on a daily basis for [...]

Why automated testing is changing software development

It’s gratifying to have one’s story mirrored by people like Elisabeth Hendrickson and Chris McMahon, but you’ve got to wonder if we’re all not just drinking the same koolaid. We think there’s more to this than sugar, water and artificial coloring. We think there’s a fundamental change in software development going on. We welcome your [...]

Agile Testing – Where does testing fit into Agile model?

Through out my career, I always waved between several software development models. I wonder how testing process differs with the development model. I started thinking about this when I was appearing for my ISTQB exam. I thought it was useful only as a bookish knowledge. I was wrong. Testing process changes with the software development [...]

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