Download QUEST Magazine

The QUEST (Quality Engineered Software and Testing) Magazine is out in conjunction with the Conference details, and in this edition, 5 articles are provided complimentary for download. QUEST Magazine is a convenient source of information about the QUEST Conference. Besides containing a description of all tutorials, keynotes, sessions, workshops, courses, and networking events, it also [...]

Perils of Quantification – what harm metrics can do for you?

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com This is a hurriedly written post (just to make sure that I do not lose the thought – “fieldstone” in Jerry Weinberg’s terminology) – I plan to use this as a place holder for expanding ideas on this topic … Please bear with me for a while with this “being cooked” idea. [...]

A conversation on Automation ROI Part 1 …

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com When automation is required, either by contract or due to technical constraints, ROI computation may not be helpful. Intangible factors may constitute the bulk of the return, and thus arithmetic computations won’t indicate the real value of automation. Fortunately in these situations we often aren’t faced with questions about the value of [...]

Context Driven Testing gets a boost – to grow stronger…

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com It is a fantastic “new year” gift (and also week end feast to many like me who is spending better part of Christmas/new year in front of laptop) to all testers… Dr. Cem Kaner (along with James Bach) has posted about context driven testing with some new definitions and articulation. I belong [...]

Note To Self: Stop Ignoring Problems!

Feed from Testthisblog.com “Yikes! The AUT just shut itself down… maybe I clicked the close button without realizing it. Oh well.” “Rad! Awesome error! …I’ll worry about it later because I promised the devs I would finish testing the feature changes by close of business today.” “Man, that’s a nasty error…I think I overheard some [...]

Scary Moments In Testing

Feed from Testthisblog.com Yesterday we had to roll back some production code to its previous build. It was essentially a performance problem. The new bits kept timing out for the types of requests users were making from the system. Our poor, battered support team had to send out a user notice that said something like [...]

I’m blocked… but why?

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com “There is no such thing as writer’s block for writers whose standards are low enough.” American Poet William Stafford I am blocked from doing any interesting writing for over 2 month or so. And this post is all about the condition of being blocked in writing. As paradoxical as it sounds, I [...]

Exploratory Testing – the state of the art, Evening Talk

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com I am delivering a talk on “Exploratory Testing – The State of the art” at STeP-IN forum. This talk is happening at Intuit Campus at Bangalore on Nov 6th. Find the announcement for this evening talk here. I plan to cover mainly the advancements, tools, trends in last few years in the [...]

If You Don’t Have Test Automation, Don’t Bother

Feed from Testthisblog.com Successful test automation is the elephant in the room for many testers. We all want to do it because manual testing is hard, our manager and devs would think we were bad-ass, and…oh yeah, some of us believe it would improve our AUT quality. We fantasize about triggering our automated test stack [...]

Real Bugs in the Wild

Feed from Testthisblog.com A day went by without finding bugs in my AUT. When I got home, as if desperate for bugs, I noticed one in the kitchen. I wanted to squash it but I know better. I controlled myself. I stood back and observed the bug (…an ant). I wondered how it got there. [...]

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