In the previous post, I extolled the virtues of software as a service (SaaS) for testing and development. When compared with on-site solutions (i.e. internal servers), SaaS consistently wins for its greater convenience and lower cost. But the software testing process doesn’t thrive on convenience or cost alone. Security is equally (if not more) important. [...]
Last week, I’ve attended a good, interesting conference - Agile Practitioners 2012. One of the sessions was held by Orit Hazzan (An associate professor and head of the Technion’s department of education in technology and science). I thought to summarize her lecture here for your benefit, adding some notes of myself, as its probably relevant [...]
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Leo Tolstoy “Happy” Testing Teams What makes one testing team better than the other? Is it their manager? The methodology they use? The quality of the testers - experience and education included? Or perhaps the combination of all and more? You [...]
In the pantheon of software testing methodologies, exploratory testing ranks among the most interactive and dynamic. However, amongst experienced testers rages an ongoing debate over whether or not exploratory is superior to structural methods of testing (e.g. scripted). In truth, both have pros and cons, making the overall debate somewhat flawed. When given a choice, [...]
“You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than be consulting all the maps in the world.” Anonymous When a year starts, we all tend to make personal resolutions. Companies make road maps and yearly plans for their budgets, marketing, resources and product development. As a small but fast-growing company ourselves, we thought it [...]
There are many topics which fuel debates and emotional discussions within the software testing community, but it seems that there’s one that really makes everyone excited - Metrics! How do you measure your testing efforts? What is the best way to evaluate effectiveness, and which elements should be quantified? How do we know if the [...]
We often receive requests from our customers, most of which are professional testers, to work with them and show them how to use Testuff when using a specific testing methodology. Usually after a short dialog, they find the best way for them to use Testuff. We're quite proud that Testuff does indeed fit with many [...]
Having done loads of bug validations for Testuff 1.1, I wanted to say something about them. Oddly enough Mike Kelly has just published a post about validations too. Bug validations can be considered quite a tedious task. Finding a bug is quite fun, a treasure hunt except you don't get the luxury of a [...]
Following my previous post about test videos where I asked why don't people record them, I opened several discussions at several QA communities across the web regarding the subject: Software Testing Club SQAForums LinkedIn Israeli QA Forum (in Hebrew) The people have spoken. All of the above discussions were great and yielded some powerful [...]
Even though I am ultra busy testing Testuff 1.0, that's coming out very very soon, I decided to take some time out and to conclude this crazy series of posts. We've seen why automated testing rocks. As I've stated before, it's more accurate, work faster, harder, for a longer period of time, for less money, [...]
