Test Case Reviews Can Be Harmful

By Eric Jacobson on February 13th, 2010 | 112 views

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Many (if not most) test teams claim to perform test case reviews. The value seems obvious, right? Make sure the tester does not miss anything important. I think this is…

Are Women Better Testers than Men?

By Eric Jacobson on February 13th, 2010 | 203 views

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After reading Tobias Mayer’s Test(osterone)-infected Developers, I noticed my test team has 3 men and 8 women, while my dev team has 30 men and 2 women. This is a…

Bug Reports Are For Problems, Not Solutions

By Eric Jacobson on February 12th, 2010 | 63 views

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An important bug got rejected by dev today. It was my fault. I included an incorrect solution to the problem. Rather than describing the bug and calling it quits, I…

By admin on February 12th, 2010 | 83 views

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It is a well known fact that even infinite amount of time and resources can not eliminate all the risks associated…

By Rao_Pradeep on February 11th, 2010 | 77 views

Article By: Grant Obermaier

They say that it is the early bird that catches the worm. The same is true in software testing.

The process starts with a requirement and from this point onwards…

The Ellis Island Bug

By DevelopSense on February 11th, 2010 | 58 views

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A couple of years ago, I developed a version of a well-known reasoning exercise. It’s a simple exercise, and I implemented it as a really simple computer program. I described…

A Use for Counting Bugs

By Abakas on February 11th, 2010 | 71 views

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For the most part, proposing a metric comparing number of bugs found to number of bugs fixed will get you laughed at. After all, bugs are not alike, and a…

Testing and Management Parallels

By DevelopSense on February 11th, 2010 | 189 views

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Rikard Edgren, Henrik Emilsson and Martin Jansson collaborate on blog called thoughts from the test eye. In a satirical post from this past summer called “Scripted vs Exploratory Testing from…

Exploratory Testers Can Learn From Cavers

By Eric Jacobson on February 11th, 2010 | 85 views

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I’ve spent a good deal of time underground the last 13 years…literally. One of my favorite weekend activities is caving. New caves are discovered nearly every weekend in the northwest…

By admin on February 9th, 2010 | 74 views

Article by James A. Whittaker

When you hear the term penetration testing, you probably envision a lone genius performing arcane tests against some hapless piece of software. And before the renaissance in penetration…