An engineering approach to Software Testing and Test Automation

“Follow the CRUMBS to evaluate Test Automation” is second (and final in series) article I published in close collaboration with Michael Larsen. With the first one we set focus on questions to raise while preparing for automation project – and in the second we discussed main heuristic evaluation criteria: Confirmation, Coverage Criteria, and Complexity Risk, Robustness, and Reliability [...] ...

“Coming to TERMS with Test Automation” is article I published in collaboration with Michael Larsen. We discussed main questions to consider when you’re about to start a [test] automation activity: Tool / Technology Execution Requirements and Risks Maintenance (and maintainability) Security Download the magazine (PDF) from Software Test Professionals web-site: ST&QA Magazine 2011/2012 Dec/Jan Issue (Note: [...] ...

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I have made two major investments into my professional development this year. One of them, taken in April, is the course of Rapid Software Testing. I wrote about my experience and takeaways, as well as proudly gave a personal endorsement. Another course, similar and different at the same time, is Black Box Software Testing (Foundations [...] ...

Publication URL: http://www.thetestingplanet.com/2011/11/november-2011-issue-6/ Download PDF: The Testing Planet November Issue And you can view the large mind map here (click to open in a separate window). ...

Note. The reason of this posting is two-fold: While considering taking the Rapid Software Testing course I found surprisingly little of feedback information on testers’ blogs, and none of that addressed the questions I actually had. So I’m fixing this issue retrospectively. There are too many aggressive pseudo-education “courses” or scamming certification schemas advertised on [...] ...

Remote exploration of functionalities is one of the things I enjoy in load testing. I don’t like the definition as “non-functional” though. “Para-functional” sounds better, but (at least for me) thinking of those functionalities as system or service functionalities helps to assess them from purpose/value/risks perspectives. You can’t reach them manually, you can’t even see them, [...] ...

Reviewing the posts of this year I see that they were not so much about automation. Actually, way beyond, sometimes. And the focus of my interest has been shifted to more challenging area of exploratory testing. So be it – here’s a new page on my blog – Testing Stories – logging this part of [...] ...

In this post I’m sharing our up to date experience mindmapping team-based exploratory testing as well as stating some expectations that a mindmapping product should meet to fulfill our needs. Structure As you can see, GUI part of the structure is the most developed here. Mapping is pretty obvious. However, we’ve identified the following problems. [...] ...

I created this mindmap quite a while ago, as a follow-up to Data Container Boundaries and Complex Data Boundaries blog posts. Due to poor visualization capabilities of Freemind, I used previously, (before going with XMind), I decided to draw the mindmap manually, in MS Paint. That took me loooong time but I liked the result. Although, now I would write the [...] ...

I’ve taken time to organize ‘Resources‘ page in my blog. For now, it contains pages and resources for ’Testing Challenges‘ and downloadable ‘Mind Maps‘ (XMind format). As for function libraries, I leave them accessible by category. ...

I interviewed Michael Bolton while taking Rapid Software Testing course, “- a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure”. The articles were published at Community Blog of Software Testing Club. Interview with Michael Bolton (Part 1) Interview with Michael Bolton (Part 2) Interview with Michael [...] ...

Writing about things I want to do and want to write about. ...

A few more of my posts came out in “Hiring Testers” series in the Community Blog at Software Testing Club. In “How Come You Are Not Certified?” (the title was a joke, by the way, I do not agree that memorizing definitions out of context can make anybody a better professional – only hands-on experience matters!) [...] ...

While getting ready for the Rapid Software Testing course I dedicated some time for the “homework” – studying of publicly available exploratory testing documents. And here’s my ideas on Functionality Testing. References Heuristic Test Strategy Model – Satisfice, Inc. – Designed by James Bach Michael Bolton, DevelopSense: Testers Know That Things Can Be Different ...

While getting ready for the Rapid Software Testing course I dedicated some time for the “homework” – studying of publicly available exploratory testing documents. And here’s my ideas on Claims Testing. References Heuristic Test Strategy Model – Satisfice, Inc. – Designed by James Bach Michael Bolton, DevelopSense: Testers Know That Things Can Be Different ...

..Or if you are thinking of that, and especially if you are wondering why it’s so hard to find good ones – you definitely need to become a reader of “Hiring Testers” series in the Community Blog at Software Testing Club. People are always looking for a job. Each job advertisement receives dozens, maybe hundreds of [...] ...

Reference Page: Mnemonics in Testing Defaulting Dependencies No Time for Ping Pong Sketching with a Pencil Review: VBScript vs. JScript ...

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WordPress blogging engine has “Stats” plugin. Very useful, helps gathering a lot of feedback. There are also many other plugins, relying on the data gathered by WordPress Stats. Amongst them I use “Popular Posts”. As many of bloggers noticed last week, there was an outage of WordPress Stats server. This impacted not only site stats [...] ...