Decisions around the product release – part 2 Martin Jansson
How is information handled around the decisions for the product release? There are many different situations around this, the following is what I’ve experienced and my tips and tricks. In many cases there is no information available or rather it is not presented to the decision makers. It also common that the information is not […]
Decisions around the product release – part 1 Martin Jansson
Who makes the decision that the product is ready for release? There are many different cases of this situation, here are a few examples. In some companies it is the QA department that makes this decision. This means that it is QA that takes the risk for the release. It also means that if something […]
The Generalist vs. Specialist Paradox Henrik Emilsson
When working as a consultant you must live up to the paradox that: You should already be specialised and competent enough to get a contract i.e. best of all candidates for the job; but in order to stay alive in business you need to be as general as possible in order to meet the criteria […]
Automated random or fuzzy testing by random input Martin Jansson
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 […]
thoughts from the test eye changes blog software Rikard Edgren
New RSS: http://thetesteye.com/blog/feed/ The Swedish software testing blog “thoughts from the test eye” changes blog software and will from now on run on WordPress. The old software didn’t have good enough RSS support, wasn’t appealing to the eye, and had some smaller usability issues that was becoming too annoying. The start page will still be […]
The dodgy test lead Henrik Emilsson
Not too long ago I had a test lead that I pretty soon recognised as someone that didn’t share my philosophy in software testing. One day I reported to him that I had run all regression tests that were assigned to me. All tests were executed on the same build (we had monthly iterations and […]
Testing Clichés Part I – Expected Results Rikard Edgren
Sometimes it is said that each test case must have an expected result, or even worse, that each step of a test case must have an expected result. This is the extreme of scripted testing that I dislike for two reasons: * It takes a lot of time to write and follow detailed test cases; […]
Testing in unknown territory Martin Jansson
A few years ago I switched company from a software company to a hardware focused company. I understood from start that this would be a difficult task in getting to learn the new technologies and platforms, but I did not see what this would do for testing. When you test software that you are totally […]
Project tool – Trac Martin Jansson
”Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.”, see http://trac.edgewall.org/ […]
Recruiting testers is not an easy task Martin Jansson
From what I have seen there are few recruiters that know what testers and test leads do. Considering that we had a EuroSTAR focusing on defining the profession can be seen as that testing as a profession is quite new and can therefore be considered immature. Many recruiters look for a certain set of skills, […]