What’s a Tester without a QA Team?

When a tester joins an agile team, she leaves her Test or QA team behind. Often, her old QA team is disbanded altogether. Without the support of a QA team, she might feel abandoned, especially if she now reports to a development manager. She’s in danger of becoming isolated, having lost the phased and gated [...]

GTAC 2011: Secrets of World Class Software Organizations

Among these organizations, a few stand out as being truly world class. They are exceptional in their ability to meet their software development goals and exceptional in the contribution they make to their companies’ overall business success. Do world class software organizations operate differently than average organizations?

GTAC 2011: The Latest in Google Test Tools

Come and learn about the latest Google has to offer in open source test tools that help manual testers by eliminating much of the grunt work, keeping them focused on testing, and helping them prioritize their efforts based on risk. Chief among these are BITE, Quality Bots, Test Analytics, and Script Cover, the first two [...]

Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went Wrong

Join Ray on a retrospective of what went right and, more importantly, what went wrong. If agile is in your future, come discover what you’re in for, traps to avoid, and how to be successful. If you’re not ready for agile, you’ll learn some new approaches that can be applied to traditional processes.

Automated UI Tests for jQuery Mobile Apps Using Selenium

In this screencast we’ll show you how to automate UI tests for jQuery Mobile Web apps using Selenium

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 [...]

How Google Tests Software

Google is a company that releases complex software rapidly to millions of users worldwide. Have you ever wondered how Google does testing? During this IBM sponsored webcast, James Whittaker unveils the secret sauce of Google test practices. From developer-oriented unit testing, to the mystical role of the Software Engineer in Test, and to the role [...]

How to Test Without a Formal Test Plan

For a range of reasons — both good and bad — many software and web development projects don’t budget enough time for complete and comprehensive testing. A quality test team must be able to test a product or system quickly and constructively in order to provide some value to the project. This essay describes how [...]

Selecting Test Automation Tools

If you want a tool to do functional test automation (as opposed to unit testing), you will probably need both a framework and a driver. The framework is responsible for defining the format of the tests, making the connection between the tests and test automation code, executing the tests, and reporting results. The driver is [...]

The Secrets of Successful Test Automation

Lisa Crispin presented The Secrets of Successful Test Automation at Agile Denver meeting. Here is a good collection of points to consider when you want to start or are practicing test automation in your organization.

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