Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2011
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 [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 25, 2011
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!) [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 07, 2011
..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 [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 04, 2011
Reference Page: Mnemonics in Testing Defaulting Dependencies No Time for Ping Pong Sketching with a Pencil Review: VBScript vs. JScript ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 30, 2011
Join To Earn 10x Bonus Attacking Passwords Good to Check, Worth to Explore Documented == Unambiguous? ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 01, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports The Approach The previous post sets a lot of requirements altogether. Let’s try now to put some answers. How we can have a free, portable, yet powerful viewer? If we go with a web-page format, we can use a web browser for that purpose. If we go with XML format [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 15, 2011
Last week Shilpa Venkateshwaran published on IT Knowledge Exchange my replies to the offline interview questions. Access online: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Access offline: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 28, 2010
Data Generation On-the-Fly A Fly in the Ointment Keyboard Shortcuts Area Highlighter Trick ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 21, 2010
Test Design with Mind Maps Usability Study: Beliefs Are More Important Than Requirements Automation Puzzles Folder Structure Template Document (XMind Mindmap) Rapid Reporter, exploratory notetaking tool ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 08, 2010
Excel-based test-reports-2 Don’t blame VBScript Total Validator Be aware of Bounded Awareness ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 16, 2010
“Testing is a process of exploration, discovery, investigation, learning, and analysis with the goal of gathering information about risks, vulnerabilities, and threats to the value of the product.” Michael Bolton, DevelopSense What this is about? Read about Weekend Testing November, 2010: Weekend Testing is coming to the Western Hemisphere November, 13, 2010: Let’s Dance! [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 04, 2010
With this post I continue my examples on Bounded Awareness in software testing. But, again, first I ask you to read the following article: “Multi-tasking makes you stupid”. If you didn’t, here’s the summary. A growing body of scientific research shows one of the jugglers’ favorite time-saving techniques, multitasking, can actually make you less efficient [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 02, 2010
Last week I asked QuickTestingTips readers to share examples of Bounded Awareness they observed in their work, and here I’m with my stories. Let’s start with this video. You see two teams of people playing basketball. While you watch the video, count number of passes made by the each team. ..Now, after you’re done, list what [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 06, 2010
Spoon Browser Sandbox 18 automation refactoring heuristics with code examples Surplus is an asset Keep Moving Excel-based test-reports-1 ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 05, 2010
Time Management – Mind Map Printer-friendly XML and XSL reference cards IP Address Tools Are you still using screenshots? ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 20, 2010
If I would have to choose to keep only one of my answers on StackOverflow, I’d choose this one. Probably, not necessary explanation On a technical side, what is the greatest test automation challenge? It’s not programming, and not even learning about tool’s object model or application’s API. But it’s two-fold. 1. Automated test design [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 26, 2010
Get yourself out of Inbox Crash test your application Unlearning for testers SQL Injection cartoon and walkthrough ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Aug 25, 2010
Bring up your Desktop in double-click! Test your wetware GUI Step Automation Heuristic (Mindmapped) Ten 20 Years Old Usability Heuristics Visualize XML then blink test Close process in a second ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 18, 2010
Some time ago I blogged about non-GUI testing approach in automation. I also provided examples of how COM/OLE Viewer may help in exploring methods and properties of undocumented objects. But there are other cases when an application is poorly documented, and you know little about its internal methods and objects. Google Code Search may help you [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 12, 2010
Developers want to hire testers. Testers want to hire testers. What common and what opposite would we find comparing their requirements? Tester Side Requirements Represented by Eric Jacobson’s blog post ”Who Is A Good Tester?” (original grammar and syntax retained) Developer Side Requirements Represented by StackOverflow discussion “Tips for hiring good testers?” (original grammar [...] ...
