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Software Testing ZoneSoftware Testing ZoneDedicated to thoughts about software testing, QA, and other software quality related practices. Articles on software quality assurance, testing and test automation. Articles
Years of testing experience Vs. Hours of testing experience?
2007-03-18 15:51:00 I am sure lot of people in software testing might find this write-up offensive. But I have seen many people claiming to be in software testing for a long time and I find them lacking the basic skill sets required in testing! And at the same time I come across many freshers trying to find a job in testing and some new comers in testing, with far better testing skills. So I keep wondering if years More About: Testing , Experience , Years , Sting , Test
How to win the Testing World Cup?
2007-03-12 20:03:00 The “World Cup ” fever has taken over. And what will be a better time to write something about world cup than this? But in no way this article is related to world cup cricket! So please excuse me if you expected some nice world cup cricket analysis here. But this article is surely about how to win the “Testing World Cup”! Never heard of it? Well, I am sure you must have faced such situation at More About: How To , Sting
How important is regression testing?
2007-03-04 09:26:00 In a single sentence, Regression testing is the retesting of a previously tested program following modification to ensure that faults have not been introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes made. Regression testing helps to ensure that changes made to the software code do not break other previously working parts of the software. It is important to do regression testing frequently, More About: Testing , Port , Sting , Test , Sion
How to apply Testing in Real World !
2007-02-25 12:29:00 Quite often I receive mails from friends asking for some testing exercises. According to me, if you are alert enough, you can find lots of testing exercises in your day to day life. Can’t agree with me? Read on… Today I got an SMS (Forward of course) from a friend. The content of that message was as follows: “If you are forced to draw money by a robber in an ATM, then just enter your PIN More About: World , How To , Testing , Real , Sting
Wanna become a Good Tester? Learn to ask 'Why' !
2007-02-22 10:11:00 Are you really passionate about testing? Do you consider testing as an intellectual activity? I must agree that, the perception of Software Test ing is changing in a positive way; but still there is a long way to go. I must argue that Software Testing is a career in its own right. But different people have different opinions. Some may even laugh if I say 'philosophy' has lot to do with software More About: Earn , Anna , Come , Good
Ten Software Testing Videos !
2007-02-22 09:01:00 I came across these brainstorming videos while surfing through Rise Again's Blog ! These videos can be found for FREE on Google Video . 1. Becoming a software testing expert - 19954 views - 88 ratings 2. Beyond Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development - 16775 views - 86 ratings 3. Agile Testing - 3647 views - 34 ratings 4. Proving Our Worth: Quantifying the Value of Testing - 4425 More About: Videos , Software , War
Testing phase in Waterfall Model (Pros and Cons) !
2007-02-21 18:54:00 I saw an interesting article on the pro’s and con’s of the waterfall model for software development at Builder AU. On the testing phase it states: "Test ing : In this stage, both individual components and the integrated whole are methodically verified to ensure that they are error-free and fully meet the requirements outlined in the first step. An independent quality assurance team defines “test More About: Model , Water , Sting
STARWEST 2007 Software Testing Analysis & Review !
2007-02-21 18:26:00 StarWest 2007Software Testing Analysis & Review October 22-26, 2007 Venue:Disneyland Hotel1150 Magic Way. Anaheim, CA 92802 The STAR conference provides guidance and state-of-the-art best practices, tools, and services to software professionals around the globe. The mission of this must-attend conference, now in its 15th year, is to help testers make sense of trends, technologies, and strategies More About: War
New and innovative capabilities across the Silk testing tools !
2007-02-21 18:17:00 From: DMN Newswire Borland Software Corporation , the global leader in Open application lifecycle management (ALM), announced new and innovative capabilities across its Silk(TM) line of integrated testing and quality management products, core components of Borland’s Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution. The enhanced offerings help customers streamline manual testing processes and extend More About: Tools , Testing , Cross , Tool , Across
Watchfire releases AppScan Enterprise 5 testing tool !
2007-02-21 18:09:00 From: Net Security Watch fire announced AppScan Enterprise 5. Based on next-generation technology, this new version further strengthens the power of the industry’s only web-based application security solution for security professionals, and now extends its utility to include a new point and shoot testing tool called QuickScan and integrated Computer Based Training to accelerate the adoption of More About: Testing , Tool , Fire , Release
Testers don’t make Bugs. Oh Really?
2007-02-17 10:16:00 Bugs slip into production in spite of the best efforts of designers, coders, and testers. While testers may not be responsible for the introduction of bugs to the system, they bear some responsibility for the introduction of bugs to the user (I know many of my tester friends will be against this point). But testing can be adjusted to reduce the number of bugs that pass through to production – More About: Bugs , Real , Make , Test , Really
Role of Software Configuration Management(SCM) in Software Testing
2007-02-10 15:48:00 Software Configuration Management (SCM) is an area, about which I had not written recently. So in a way, it was a long pending due, which had to be written. Recently I was asked by one of my blog readers, 'Veerendra', to write something about it and its role in Software Testing . So I thought of writing this article. Hope this helps... Software Configuration Management(SCM): As the systems being More About: Software , Men , War
2007 conference for the association of software testing (CAST2007)
2007-02-03 15:51:00 Conference for the Association of Software Testing July 9 - 11, 2007 Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA CALL FOR PAPERS ScopeCAST 2007 is now accepting papers that offer insight and understandingabout software testing. The topics of the papers should be relevant tothe conference theme: Testing Techniques: Innovations andApplications. (Special consideration will be given if your paper orexperience More About: War , Ware , Soci
Test Driven Development At Google
2007-02-03 15:19:00 Writing unit tests at the same time as (or even before) corresponding code leads to a stronger, more robust codebase. Strangely enough, even with the extra work, we find it speeds development. TDD makes debugging easier. TDD also provides definititive documentation of edge-case behavior. Yes, all of us are big fans of TDD. But not so much as Google , it seems. Google (according to Nial Kennedy More About: Drive , Development , Men , Test Drive
Software Testing Paradoxes
2007-02-03 15:09:00 I've found an interesting article in MSDN magazine. It describes several paradoxes that can occur during software testing process. 1. Simpson's paradox demonstrates that conclusions of several data sets can differ from conclusions of a combined data set. Thus, the test result summary does not necessarily represents the same as the original uncombined data. 2. Braess's paradox may arise during More About: Software , Testing , War , Ware , Soft
Interesting interview about techniques for software testing !
2007-02-03 14:58:00 From: CIO.com Inter esting interview about techniques for software testing with Dr Magdy Hanna, who is chairman of the International Institute for Software Testing . She covers a wide range of test techniques, including data modelling, decision tables, state modelling, requirements based testing, communication between developers and testers, and more. "The problem with software testing . . . Test More About: Tech
Agile tool completes beta testing
2007-01-28 15:15:00 From: PRLeap After a year of beta testing and development, Agile Track Software released its first production version of the AgileTrack application. AgileTrack is a software development and project management tool that allows programmers to apply agile development techniques in their projects. AgileTrack allows the use of agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming and Scrum, in software More About: Beta , Comp , Testing , Tool
NASA chooses IBM Rational testing tools
2007-01-28 15:13:00 From: Presszoom Because separate space agencies from several different countries around the world are developing the software that will operate the Telescope’s Guidance, Navigation and Control ( GNC ) systems, Command and Data Handling ( CNDH ), and the Integrated Science Instrument Module ( ISIM ) that houses the four primary instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope, it was critical for More About: Tools , Testing , Tool , Sting , Test
Top 50 Software Testing/SQA FAQs you may be asked in an Interview !
2007-01-23 09:17:00 Long since I was being asked to compile a list of Software Testing Inter view Questions by some of my blog readers/friends. So at last I have managed to compile a list of Top 50 Software Testing/SQA FAQs you may be asked in an Interview ! So here it goes... 1. What is 'Software Quality Assurance'? Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS - monitoring and improving the process More About: War
Why Do We Test a Software?
2007-01-23 09:05:00 What is the need to test a software? Why should a company have a team for software testing and quality assurance? Why to test ? These are some questions, every Soft ware Test er has to face regularly throughout his testing career. Let me try and give an one sentence answer to all these question. To Reduce Costly Errors The cost of errors in software can vary from nothing at all to large amounts of More About: War , Ware
Some Myths about Software Testing
2007-01-20 09:38:00 Testing is only reactive in nature. Testers have to have full domain expertise. Anybody can do testing. Automation should always be utilized. "Formal" methods are "too much" for our company. Testing always increases development costs. There is no need to bring testers in early. Exploratory testing is always ineffective. Adding more testers to a project will reduce testing time More About: Software , Testing , War , Ware , Myths
Software Testing Principles
2007-01-20 09:34:00 A necessary part of a test case is a definition of the expected output or result. A programmer should avoid attempting to test his or her own program. A programming organization should not test its own programs. Thoroughly inspect the results of each test. Test cases must be written for invalid and unexpected, as well as valid and expected, input conditions. Examining a program to More About: Software , Testing , War , Ware , Soft
25 Software Testing Terminologies
2007-01-19 13:33:00 From: PerfTestPlus Quality - Something of value to some person. - Jerry Weinberg Bug - Anything that threatens the value of the product. Something that bugs someone whose opinion matters. - James Bach Soft ware Testing - A technical investigation done to expose quality-related information about the product under test. - Cem Kaner Expoloratory Testing - An interactive process of simultaneous More About: War , Ware
Test Automation Tool - Rational Robot
2007-01-19 13:03:00 I was asked by a friend from Orkut about Rational Robot . So I thought of posting an article about it so that everyone can share it. So here it goes... Overview: 1. General-purpose test automation tool for QA teams who want to perform functional testing of client/server applications. 2. Lowers learning curve for testers discovering the value of test automation processes. 3. Enables experienced More About: Auto , Tool , Test
Driving up Software Quality - The Role of the Tester
2007-01-19 12:45:00 Friends, I found a very interesting and thought provoking article by Helen Joyce. So I thought of sharing it with all of you. Just take a look... The natural instinct of a software developer is to demonstrate that their application works. They are genuine problem-solvers, sharp and go-getting, who can knock out a prototype application in a matter of weeks or even days. A tester's focus is More About: Software , Driving , War , Ware , Soft
Unit Testing versus Functional Tests
More articles from this author:2007-01-19 12:40:00 Unit tests tell a developer that the code is doing things right; functional tests tell a developer that the code is doing the right things. Unit tests: Unit tests are written from a programmer's perspective. They ensure that a particular method of a class successfully performs a set of specific tasks. Each test confirms that a method produces the expected output when given a known input. Writing More About: Fun , Testing , Versus , Sting , Test 1, 2, 3, 4 |
