No doubt that automation testing is sexy and impressive - it seems to be a great cure for the annoying process of more laborious testing. Imagine that you can write the crappiest, laziest piece of software and a magic automation tool painlessly finds any and all defects and helps you fix them. Sadly, this is [...]
EuroStar 2011 is a major software testing conference (Manchester, England November 21-24). We were considering going there, but you know how it is - the travel, the time, the expense.... Then we got a chance to participate, even present Testuff, without going anywhere. Exactly as we like it - online. . Staying Virtual Online is [...]
When we first launched Testuff over 4 years ago, it certainly wasn’t with James Bach in mind. Although Mr. Bach had already established a substantial following thanks to his many contributions to the world of software testing, our initial foray into the industry happened quite independently of him. Our founding, our growth, our entire vision [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps this is not strictly related to Testuff, but my article with Dr. Carlos Cid was recently published on SearchSecurity. Hope it might give some of you ideas on evaluating security for open-source as well as closed-source projects. The scope covers more than security-testing, but touches on elements of testing and assessment for security bugs [...]
As a Test Management service provider we believe that we should help our customers to maintain their preferred other testing tools - be it bug trackers or automation tools. There are many great tools out there, and each of our many users has their own reasons to select one of them, which best fits their [...]
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 [...]
30 days of world cup in South Africa are over now. We have watched many of the games, and followed the stories around the games, and the teams. One of the more interesting facts, now also talked about in the media, is that it was a "teams" world cup rather than a "stars" one. Seems [...]
As a company, which develops tools and services for the software testing industry, it is important for us to follow up on its trends and future predictions. We like to think that since we are part of this industry, and have a dialog with others in it (such as customers, experts, competitors and others), we know what's currently [...]
