thoughts from the test eye

I have a friend that proof-reads every bug report before reporting; “otherwise there will be spelling errors”, she says. I have a friend that always reproduces the bug before reporting it, at least four times. I have friends that always ask “Bug or Feature?” or “One or two bugs?” when they are uncertain. I have […]

Introduction ApTest Manager is test management system for manual testing. It is easy to use and easy to adapt to your own liking. You have the option to have different levels of features depending on what test project you are in. The more advanced contain ability to set test time per test case as well […]

I’ve found a few handy tools for automating tests as well as setting up a test environment in a scripted way very quickly. One is using python as language with pexpect as platform/module. The second one is for testing web pages quickly using Selenium. Python is a powerful scripting language and in combination with Pexpect […]

Being creative is hard when your consciousness is turned on. Why? Because your consciousness is an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself in your situation. It is a filter, that not only filter out mostly of the incoming information, but also tries to only deal with information that is important in […]

I just moved my profile to another domain, which meant I had to setup my Vista machine again. Besides stuff that makes the computer usable (show all files, don’t hide file name extensions etc.), I try to create many possibilities for software to fail. You know, a good tester is often lucky… * run as […]

This is my reply to the thread “Persuading about Exploratory Methods” in software-testing@yahoogroups.com. This starts out with the problem that it is sometimes hard to persuade a manager about Exploratory Testing, when all that matters to the manager is that tests ought to be documented (in order to know what should be tested, how many […]

Well, it is always controversial to criticise the making of the Test Plan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_plan ). But here is an attempt that will leave some open questions for further discussions. According to my experience, a test plan is a mandatory document that test managers and test leads often promote but seldom question. Sometimes it is promoted […]

At one time, I worked as a tester at a company that claims to be at TMM-level 4 (perhaps 5). Two things struck me: Firstly, the quality of the actual testing performed on this company was not as good as one could expect from a company that have produced software for over 20 years. Secondly, […]