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Review: “Integrating Skilled Testing with Agile Development” (Part 1)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 10, 2015

As the whole talk is about 45 minutes long, I post series of the review in my blog. Part 1 – Rationale for Refactoring Video Mindmap Review Points – Value – Problems It’s an open question: what are the ...

Beyond 140 characters

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 04, 2015

Even though I’d wish to do it more often, I very rarely blog on real-time topics. But I’m taking some time tonight. I tweeted a few thoughts on Tuesday, 2015/03/03. Expanding them to address responses received. Test ...

A few questions to ask upon a bug fix

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 03, 2015

Any bug is a problem statement, illustrated with an example provided. Yet the example is just a symptom. Has the problem really been gone? Let’s ask questions. Let’s make bug fixing a truly collaborative work between ...

Review: CAST 2011 Promo #2

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 19, 2015

Video Mindmap Review Points – Value – Problems It’s philosophy that makes time worth living Efficiency means different things in different contexts The challenge of the hidden picture puzzle Each click is a test ...

WTT-02 – Mind Maps in Testing

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 17, 2015

(Picture credit: “Mind Map Laws” – 7 Steps to Making a Mind Map by Tony Buzan, the inventor of mind mapping) There is a strange confusion about electronic artifacts: they’re seen as a deliverable on and ...

Review: Meetup by Girl Geeks Toronto

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 11, 2015

On Monday I attended a meetup provided by Girl Geeks TO. While commuting home I organized my review notes that I present now in a structured form: Purpose – Attendance – Content – Experience – Cost ...

SFDIPOT – Mindmap

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 04, 2015

It’s been a while since I took Rapid Software Testing course. Since then, applying Structure-Functions-Data-Platform-Operations-Time heuristics is my favorite way of systematically learning about the product. And mind map ...

WTT-01 – Trello-boration

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 02, 2015

And so we did. In January we held live networking event followed by the first Weekend Testing Toronto session online. Continuing ideas from my previous posts, I set up Trello board and created mission statement. Purpose The ...

Getting more with Weekend Testing (part 2)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 16, 2015

Disclaimer: my views, expressed in these series, not necessarily reflect views of all Weekend Testing facilitators and instructors. Yesterday, I wrote about all the positive outcomes from Weekend Testing. Today’s post is ...

Getting more with Weekend Testing (part 1)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jan 15, 2015

Disclaimer: my views, expressed in these series, not necessarily reflect views of all Weekend Testing facilitators and instructors. Foreword And again I open series of posts on Weekend Testing in my blog. Part of it is to ...

Accessibility Testing – Coverage Categories – MindMap

Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 24, 2014

This mindmap in the review series depicts Accessibility Testing by requirements categories. Each coverage type requires specific approach and tools. ...

Accessibility Testing Requirements – MindMap

Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 10, 2014

As a summary of my Accessibility Testing reviews, I’ve created a poster-like mindmap. (Smaller and bigger versions). ...

Why Can’t They Just Get It Right?

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 27, 2014

Foreword Recently I’ve been observing some new silly ideas about testing – on how to do as less of it as possible or not do it at all. I don’t bother posting links here – reading those isn’t worth ...

Web Accessibility Testing: Strategy and Mindmap

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 25, 2014

This is a cross-post of my publication on LinkedIn. I also provide more elaborate mindmap here. Foreword In the recent, I’ve been quite extensively writing about Web Accessibility in my blog. In part, because it’s one ...

Accessibility Testing – Evaluation of Tools

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 24, 2014

For any project, it’s typical to conduct assessment and evaluation of tools before acquiring licenses and putting them into use. Below I’m sharing evaluation matrix composed based on my review of accessibility ...

Sustaining Rapid Software Testing Practices Within Organization

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 18, 2014

Notice This post and mind map are work in progress. I’m hoping to get the community feedback as well as further refine the ideas myself. Stay tuned. See more contents below the mindmap. Below is the mindmap in [accessible] ...

Accessibility Testing – Classification of Tools

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 17, 2014

Class Description Content Parser-Checker. Examples: WebAIM’s WAVE, AChecker, SortSite Tools that process inner elements of the document (tags) and check whether their presence/absence and structure comply with the predefined ...

How things go with RST takers

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 10, 2014

A few observations on graduates of Rapid Software Testing course I was into studying of heuristic-based exploratory testing approach and methodologies for at least 2 years prior to taking of the course. I took the course in ...

Accessibility Testing Requirements – Interim Conclusion

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 03, 2014

In the series of reviews I went over WCAG level A / AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requirements from testing perspective. This is my second detailed take, as the first one was about 2 years ago when I started ...

Testing product among things, Testing things among product

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 30, 2014

I’ve just read this colorful definition of testing by Michael Bolton. And I got a sparking idea – “I wanna see a tag cloud for this”. And here’s what I’ve got. And I love it. Testing product ...