Once I started to code, I was always peeking at other peoples work especially the code I was going to be testing. I was self conscious about how my own code looked, so I looked at other peoples to get a better understanding. Soon I got in the habit of reviewing every bug fix and … [Read more…]
When writing automated tests there is always some form of validation, usually called assertions. Typically the tool or framework you are using usually provides some form this functionality out of the box. For example whenever you create a test project in Visual Studio by default you are going to be using MSTest. I’ve used MSTest … [Read more…]
When can we ship it? What do you have left? When will it be done? An important question is, what is done? No matter what you can’t ever test everything. For better or worse you cannot always understand ahead of time the complete stress that your users will put the product through. But really, do … [Read more…]
Where I first started testing, it was essentially all “manual testers”. Much of the work fell into what James Bach and Michael Bolton would refer to as checks rather than tests. 1 The team was the quality guardian. The last line of defense before software could be released onto the world. The relationship between QA … [Read more…]