Video: The Tough Questions About Testing

July 19, 2010

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, Behavior-Driven development is a less well-defined term.  Some contrast BDD and TDD while others say that [...]

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Testing Email Sending

July 17, 2010

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 not emails are working correctly in your application without actually sending them and/or installing a real SMTP server on your [...]

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Testing in Production

July 17, 2010

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 anything in Prod.
After being bitten time and again by environment related problems, I decided to make it a point to [...]

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Simulate Slow Internet Connection while Testing your Apps

July 17, 2010

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 it in the ‘real world’. A few hours later, you get feedback that your application does not perform well on [...]

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The Coming Shortage of Software Testers

July 17, 2010

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 a world with a shortage of software testers…
“Nonsense!” you say. “There’s plenty of software testers to go around.” Not for [...]

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Software Testing and the hammer and nail approach

July 17, 2010

It is sometimes a similar situation with software testing and specifically with test automation. This may not be much of an issue for single-product companies but when your organization produces a range of products and has multiple teams of testers handling these different products then the likelihood of hitting the hammer and nail problem arises.
One [...]

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Apple, iPhone 4 Bugs and Why Companies Need to Stop Ignoring Testers

July 17, 2010

Everyone wants to know what Apple’s going to say at their big press conference in a couple of hours. Will the iPhone 4 bugs prompt them to issue a recall? Will they send users a plastic case that supposedly solves the reception problems? Will they try to fix the defects with a software patch?  Will [...]

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Software Test Automation Myths and Facts

July 12, 2010

Today software test automation is becoming more and more popular in both C/S and web environment. As the requirements keep changing (mostly new requirements are getting introduced on daily basis) constantly and the testing window is getting smaller and smaller everyday, the managers are realizing a greater need for test automation. This is good news [...]

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Nature of Problem(s), we testers (should) investigate (or solve)

July 8, 2010

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As funny as it sounds, I am puzzled about the nature of problems that software testers, today are juggling with or should be losing their sleep over – more than the problems themselves. As humans, we love simplicity (not sure about about other species – not sure if there is any way to [...]

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20+ Sites To Help You Find Your Next QA Job

June 28, 2010

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Are you looking for a new position or a new contract? Below is a list of some great sites for you to check out to find your next quality assurance job/contract.
I also created the Twitter List “@jayphilips/employment” so you can get updates from all of the people listed on this post that [...]

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