Wishful Thinking On Software Testing

May 17, 2010

Santhosh Tuppad has high hopes for the software testing industry – and he’s here to tell you all about them as this month’s featured guest blogger. Over the last year or so, Santhosh has proven to be one of the top testers in our global community: He is an active member of the uTest forums, [...]

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Improve your performance testing with the cloud

May 17, 2010

One of the most costly and difficult tasks my test teams need to perform are performance tests. Most of the time performance testing requires specific tools that are expensive, to say the least. Special engineers are needed to deploy these tests. And for online applications that have a great deal of visitors performance testing becomes

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A movement called weekend testing – What it can do to you and your testing career?

May 12, 2010

An extremely contiguous phenomenon is sweeping in some circles, communities of software testing; it is called Weekend testing (twitter @weekendtesting). Presumably, born out of few young minds (Ajay Balamurugadas, Parimala Shankariah, Sharath Byregowda, Manoj Nair ) and influenced by context driven software testing philosophy. In a short span of time, it has traveled from Bangalore [...]

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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing

May 12, 2010

iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.
Indeed, one finding from our study is that the tab bar at the bottom of the screen works much worse on iPad than on iPhone. [...]

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Xcode: Static library template with Google Toolkit for Mac Testing framework.

May 12, 2010

For the past few posts i have been talking about how you can adjust the existing project templates and how you can use static libraries within your own project. For some time i wanted to write something about how to do unit testing within your iPhone project.
XCode LogoI have been using the Google Toolkit for [...]

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What is the difference between severity and priority?

May 11, 2010

After having seen this question floated in so many forums, I decided to write about it. First, the basics. These terms are used with respect to bugs. Severity and Priority are two attributes of a bug report. If you have seen Effective Bug Reports, you can see simple definitions of these terms.

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Top 20 Software Testing Tweeps

May 10, 2010

According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users—and is adding 300,000 new users a day. Attempting to weed through all of the fluff can be daunting! So, if you’re interested in jumping into the Twittersphere or are just looking to follow the leading journalists and thinkers in software testing [...]

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Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests

May 10, 2010

Most programmers do not write tests. We all know that we should write them, but for whatever reason, most of us don’t. This is unfortunate, because testing is the most powerful tool we know of to improve software quality. Tests reduce bugs, provide accurate documentation, and improve design.
We hope that by writing this article we [...]

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How to convince developers and management to use automated test instead of manual test

May 9, 2010

Everyone agrees that automated testing is a good thing, we should all write unit tests. We read articles and blogs to keep us up-to-date on what’s going on in the unit test world, so that we can sound cool talking to peers at lunch. But when we really sit down and try [...]

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Top reasons given by testers when bugs are reported by clients

May 9, 2010

Well, we have seen the Top replies given by programmers when their programs do not work correctly. Here is a list of reasons given by testers when they do not report or even find (important) bugs.

I found this bug BUT…
1. It was not approved for submission (by the test lead/ test manager/ fellow testers/ programmer).
2. [...]

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