I’ve been maintaining an aggregated list of testing bloggers for around 6 years. It started with just a handful of bloggers and over time it has grown to 420+. It has mostly shown up on the right hand side of www.softwaretestingclub.com It sounds like a lot of blogs, and it is, but as I’ve discovered [...]
On Refining Bug Reports as Part of Your Communication Strategy I had a revelation while checking the Software Testing Leadership Survey results in March’s issue of The Testing Planet: communication skills are not only capital for any tester willing to improve, but also the chances to test them and put them in practice are everywhere! [...]
What you know and what you do is an important part of being you. Often it is required to rethink: What do I know? What are my skills? How strong are they? It can be about you personally, or it can be about your organisation or testing unit. I have used the below approach in [...]
We’re looking to publish the results of perhaps our most popular forum post ever! This call out to the community on how testers can become better. We’re on the hunt for some (micro) sponsors for it. Could this be you or your company? Slots are £50 (1/8 page) / £100 (1/4 page) / £200 (1/2 page) [...]
By Andy Glover & Matt Archer 1. Unfixed bugs camouflage other bugs How many times have you heard a tester say, “Good news, I’ve re-tested the bug you fixed and it’s working perfectly, but I’m now observing a new bug”? You might be in luck, fixing a bug may reveal no further problems, but [...]
By Jesper Lindholt Ottosen The Testing Planet and the Software Testing Club previously introduced various tester types in the eBook “Tester Types” (1). Types like ”The Enforcer”, ”The Explorer”, ”The Checklister”, ”The Sage” and many others. It’s a good way to have a smile and recognize some behaviors in your group. The Psychological “Myers-Briggs Type [...]
Q: Hi – who are Sauce Labs and what do you do? A: Sauce Labs is a San Francisco-based company with deep technical roots in software development automation, security and high-performance infrastructure. We provide a cloud service infrastructure for running automatic Selenium tests or interactive exploratory testing for mobile and web applications. We currently give [...]
By Adrian Stokes I work in a financial environment on a data warehouse creating business and management intelligence solutions in a mortgage and savings environment. As a tester I don’t want to just help deliver the best value I can to my team and the customer. I want to be a facilitator of learning and [...]
By Adam Knight One of the hot trends in technology this year is the topic of “Big Data” and products targeting the “Big Data” problem (1). In May 2011 Mckinsey Global Institute described Big Data as “The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity” (2) and in December 2011 the International Institute of Analytics predicted [...]
By Brian J. Noggle The vendor’s salesman/trainer sat next to me at the conference table, his laptop open between us with the software package that my employer and his chief developer had selected before they hired me as their professional quality assurance person. The vendor was demonstrating the load testing capabilities of the package, how [...]
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