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Energy Management vs. Time Management
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 19, 2015
These are the points I captured while reading 1st part of “Too much information, too many decisions” chapter of the book “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” by Dr. Daniel J. ...
Key principles for business-driven development
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 16, 2015
“Key principles for business-driven development” is IBM article that I recently read and liked very much. It aligns quite well with the concepts of context-driven testing, but looks at the whole project. I’ve ...
PACE COLT: KWSQA 2015 “Targeting Quality”
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 15, 2015
Last week I attended and presented at the conference organized by Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association. I took notes and organized my review in a structured form: Purpose – Attendance – Content – Experience – ...
Testers listen to Skeptoid
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 14, 2015
“How can I learn about critical thinking? What are the examples? How to apply it in testing?” If you’re asking such questions for yourself or for coaching of your team I can help you with a perfect source. ...
Context Driven Mind
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 13, 2015
These are the points I captured while reading Introduction to the book “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” by Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. I put my points and cross-references next to ...
A cross-referencing experiment
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 12, 2015
A few years ago I started using my notebook regularly inspired by Michael Bolton’s article “Exploratory Tester’s Notebook”. Then, as I moved up to lead roles, I got busier with different stuff, and my ...
Had a blast at CAST, Yay for KWSQA!
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 09, 2015
Today I’m going to present a talk on Web Accessibility and Accessibility Testing Heuristics at the conference of Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association. Maybe I’m driving at this moment while you’re ...
Had a blast at CAST, from keynotes to talks
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 08, 2015
Running Context Driven Testing Meetup In Your City Lightning Talks is a very fast paced method of conferring. To make sure I get the most of 5 minutes time frame I put together main points in my tester’s notebook. By the ...
Had a blast at CAST, played testing games
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 07, 2015
This time I’m telling about my workshop experiences, including a session of Avalon gameplay with testers at CAST. TDD Workshop by Robert Sabourin I really enjoyed the workshop. Though the most interesting part for me was ...
Had a blast at CAST!
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 06, 2015
Achievements unlocked! :) 1st time at the conference in North America 1st time at software testing conference 1st time at CAST 1st time a speaker in English 1st time conducted Workshop 1st time gave Lightning Talk 1st time was ...
Dialectical Materialism in Testing
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 05, 2015
Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science and nature, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Wikipedia Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method), from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική, is ...
Interviewed by Srinivas Kadiyala
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 02, 2015
In September Srinivas Kadiyala interviewed me for Testing Circus – a professional software testing magazine with a breezy name :) I’m thankful for this opportunity and humbled to get in the same line with testing ...
Re: Toronto Testing Meetup, September Workshop
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 25, 2015
After a short vacation we’ve resumed workshops in our testing meetup! Quick notes below. Job Finding Club Albert Gareev gave a quick intro on our community services to the newly joined members Kraig Lenehan reviewed ...
“Professional Growth Leads and Hacks”
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 31, 2015
“Professional Growth Leads and Hacks” is a lightning talk I gave at the Toronto Testing Meetup. These are not the only ideas, but these are what I tested myself and turned out to be rather great. Intended audience: ...
Re: Toronto Testing Meetup, July Workshop
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 11, 2015
Seems like it’s been just a few days, but it’s been a month – time for another workshop in our testing meetup! This time we had even bigger attendance. Below I share my experience report. Participants Albert ...
“Why should I test my program?”
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 06, 2015
..Another lunch break, and Quora suggests that I might be the right person to answer this question. Why, yes, I’m taking on it. “Why should I test my program?” – Answer: As a tester, I avoid jumping into ...
Review: Driving While Driven: The Way of the Skilled Tester
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 24, 2015
I attended a webinar provided by Association for Software Testing. I took notes and organized my review in a structured form: Purpose – Attendance – Content – Experience – Cost – Organization – Location – Time. Or ...
Re: Toronto Testing Meetup, June Workshop
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 19, 2015
An Opening Comment Since beginning of this year, I’ve been running Toronto chapter of Weekend Testing Americas, mixing online and live events. As we’re expanding, I was presented an opportunity (i.e. a venue) to run ...
CAST 2015: I’m in!
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 03, 2015
With 500th post on my blog I make the following announcement.. Annual Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) is one of the most high profile events in the professional testing world. It brings together ...
List Items with Cascading Dependencies (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This is a second entry about customization with ...
PRE-Work Checklist
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 14, 2015
Preface As I blogged in the past, a bug is an issue, but an issue is not necessarily a bug.. Customer support needs to respond to all incidents, but not all of them will be software defects. So what testers find reasonable to ...
Using State Counters (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 13, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry is about customization with VBScript. ...
Workflow Scripts (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 12, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry is about issue-specific calls. Overview ...
Workflow Customization (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 09, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry begins series of Workflow customization ...
Groups and Permissions (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 08, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry is dedicated to customization of Group ...
Project Lists (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 07, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry is dedicated to customization of ...
Project Entities (HP ALM/QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 06, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. This entry is dedicated to customization of “Project Entities” – i.e. data objects in QC, with ...
Exploring QC customization (HP ALM / QC)
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 05, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. ..And here it is – HP ALM version 12. Test Director (TD) became Quality Center (QC) which is now rebranded as ...
Review: “Integrating Skilled Testing with Agile Development” (Part 3)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 12, 2015
As the whole talk is about 45 minutes long, I post series of the review in my blog. Part 3 – Closing Notes Video Mindmap Review Points – Value – Problems Automation might become too expensive ...
Review: “Integrating Skilled Testing with Agile Development” (Part 2)
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 11, 2015
As the whole talk is about 45 minutes long, I post series of the review in my blog. Part 2 – Refactoring and Walkthrough Video Mindmap Review Points – Value – Problems Axis in refactored version by Bach/Bolton ...
