What Do Testers Do When There’s Nothing to Test?

The “off-season” isn’t something you normally hear about in software development and testing. Beach towns, professional sports, and academia all have natural breaks built into their schedules. But testers and developers work all year-round. At the macro level, there is no “off-season” for our industry. But as individual testers, we all have downtime, whether we’re [...]

2026-07-20T12:51:34+00:00September 18th, 2017|20 Years Archive, Blog, Era 2015-2018, Funstuff|1 Comment

Want a Boring Job? Do NOT Go into Software Testing

On the back of our company T-shirts are the words “Software Testing Can Be Fun.” We always thought it was not just a cool slogan, but it is also something we believe in. A few days ago, someone asked me - after seeing it - if we really believe that software testing can actually be [...]

2026-07-20T12:51:36+00:00January 9th, 2017|20 Years Archive, Blog, Era 2015-2018, Funstuff, Testing|Comments Off on Want a Boring Job? Do NOT Go into Software Testing

Why Olympians Would Make Great Software Testers

In many ways, the contrast between Olympic athletes and software testers couldn't be starker: One class of professionals symbolizes the ultimate in human form, strength, and grace.  They are paragons of physical perfection. The other category is the exact opposite.  QA professionals are often depicted as skinny or fat (but never in between).  And it’s [...]

2026-07-20T12:51:37+00:00August 15th, 2016|20 Years Archive, Blog, Era 2015-2018, Funstuff|Comments Off on Why Olympians Would Make Great Software Testers

Long Time Customers, New Customers and You

We’ve recently noticed that we have very nice customers :-) Not only they are our customers, they - we guess - like Testuff enough to recommend it to others, or take it with them as they move to a new job, in a new company. This is great news for us. Not (only) because we [...]

2024-04-17T15:25:34+00:00March 12th, 2012|Blog, Funstuff, General|Comments Off on Long Time Customers, New Customers and You

Testuff Test Management Video

Our first video presentation We've completed the work on our first video. It is a short presentation of our test management tool, briefly talking about the ease of use of Testuff, how it's intuitive yet fully featured, and mentioning it being a comprehensive solution. Let us know what you think of it, and 'like' it [...]

2024-04-17T15:27:15+00:00May 12th, 2011|Blog, Funstuff, General, Marketing|Comments Off on Testuff Test Management Video

World Cup Winners get A bonus – Testuff Licenses

Winner takes it all - Free account for a year! Just a short post to tell all of our blog readers about our special promotion. The world is celebrating the football World Cup event, and Testuff joins the party. We always said that testing should be fun and what's more fun than games :-) Now, and [...]

2024-04-17T15:28:55+00:00June 14th, 2010|Blog, Funstuff, General, Marketing|Comments Off on World Cup Winners get A bonus – Testuff Licenses

Developers developers developers

Ran across this funny piece entitled The Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don't work. Sad but true: 20. "That's weird..." 19. "It's never done that before." 18. "It worked yesterday." 17. "How is that possible?" 16. "It must be a hardware problem." 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it [...]

2024-04-17T15:32:50+00:00June 28th, 2008|Blog, Funstuff, QA, Testing|6 Comments

Hollywood, here they come!

Having seen the celebrity look alike webapp, I had some funny inspiration for testing. Let's see how well it works and see if the celebrities look like themselves! My Hollywood Twin, Johnny Depp, only looks like himself by 76%. That sucks for the algorithm developers. On the other hand, this guy has a hundred [...]

2024-04-17T15:33:00+00:00June 4th, 2008|Blog, Bugs, Funstuff, Testing|Comments Off on Hollywood, here they come!
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