As testers, we have opted into working in an industry that is constantly changing and evolving. I knew that, and I did nothing about it for a long time. When I blog about BBST or WeekendTesting, I get a sense of déjà vu, because I learned about them several years ago but never got around … [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard of it before, Weekend Testing brings testers together to engage in a bustling Skype conversation on a testing related topic. You get all levels of experience and background which fosters some good conversation, insight and is great opportunity to exercise your testing brain. It’s great because it the session may not … [Read more…]
Where does the time go, whether release deadlines or fitting in a side project, finding time is a challenge and managing that time is even harder. Competing Interests For Side Projects I found the time for this blog by following some advice from John Sonmez and paying myself first by waking up an hour earlier … [Read more…]
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time to start setting goals and laying out plans for 2016. Before I go into my resolutions as a tester for 2016, I wanted to express my thanks to the brave readers of this blog. Without further ado, this testers New Years Resolutions… Linux and the Cloud If … [Read more…]
There’s pressure to find bugs. If testers are not reporting bugs it leads to all kinds of uncomfortable questions. There’s the usual management need to provide tangible and quantifiable evidence that the cost of testing is being balanced or offset by some improvement in quality. Customers may also be question the test cycle, and its … [Read more…]
Data Driven tests are a nice way to reduce boiler plate code and offer the option for less technical users to contribute to test cases. We’ll be using nunit 3 for these examples so I’ll be covering the option for data driven tests and some of the changes for nunit 3.0. All the examples are … [Read more…]
As testers we are often caught in the middle, if fact it happens so frequently you may not even realize that it is occurring. It can be awkward, it can be frustrating but after a while you end up being fluent in the languages of business and software development. Then like most people that can … [Read more…]
In this second installment of Testing the Arbitrary we’ll take a look at testing a vending machine and create a mind map to record the results. If you are not familiar with mind maps you can take a look at my post Mind Mapping a Stapler for a brief introduction. Similar to a stapler, testing … [Read more…]
Living in the United States, Thanksgiving takes up an interesting position in the holiday season. Wedged in-between the more commercialized holidays of Halloween and Christmas, as casual outsider might completely miss Thanksgiving if it hadn’t been sanctified as the entrance gate to Christmas shopping. It’s probably best when talking about the holidays to gloss over … [Read more…]
Phase 1: The Search I wanted the same feeling of community I experienced online only locally. I work in a relatively small city but for its size we have a quite a bit of software being developed here, we even have early claims to the title Silicon Beach. Although that title has stuck more to … [Read more…]