As a user of Facebook I feel really helpless when nothing works as it should (as was the case with the latest GUI-update). Posts were stochastically shown in the feed and a lot of errors occurred in various situations. A lot (all?) of my friends on Facebook experienced the same problems.
When there are lots of [...]
As a Swede, the winter Olympics are fun to watch. Most sports aren’t spread across the globe, so we have chances for medals.
One of the most exciting events are the Biathlon, and perhaps it was a reaction to disappointing results for the Swedish ladies, but I got really upset at the software:
The numbers for the [...]
A disclaimer… I am no developer, but I have developed a tool. As I develop I have the mindset of a developer, not the tester. I have done lots of mistakes, intentionally not implemented good/needed things and considered what parts I can get away with in the first release. This tool might not seem big and [...]
In my local food store they have this system where you scan the price tags on the food you buy and most often smoothly able to pay and exit without having to stay in any long queues.
A time back they must have changed software in these scanners because their behavior changed and bugginess increased. The [...]
I just want to promote a really good blog post written by Michael Bolton where he describes the difference between Testing and Checking:
http://www.developsense.com/2009/08/testing-vs-checking.html
I wish that many managers, testers and developers read this post…
Cheers,
Henrik
A few months ago I reported a bug to the installer of a security radar at a door. He had placed a radar just inside the door so that people who were going out never had to use their pass card to get out. Instead you just walked up to the door and it opened, [...]
Random testing or fuzzy testing is nothing new, but for those of you who are new to it I just wanted to share a little tool I found. If you want to know a bit more about fuzzy testing go read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing or whatever place you like to find quick info at.
Barton Miller has [...]
At my former company we had a vision of removing/fixing all unhandled exceptions that we found (and that we thought a customer might encounter). After some discussions we decided that the unhandled exceptions should be treated in the same way as we had treated severe errors on previous platforms. I.e. Crashes in C++; NullPointerExceptions in [...]
The other day I was using Google Chrome to browse through internet.
One thing I did during that session was to try to download an evaluation of HP Quality Center. I was struggling to register as a user and try to download, but it was not possible.
But how does this relate to Google Chrome? I am [...]
The variety of configurations (operating system, browser, language etc.) can look overwhelming; and it is impossible to test all possible configurations for Servers and Clients. On the other hand there are certain platforms that are more probable to uncover defects.
This is just common sense, but I haven’t seen any terminology for handling this in an [...]