Far too often I hear managers say, “Just get it out the door.” I understand the perspective. We work in a world of constraints and the business needs to...
0 replies - 1734 views - 03/13/13 by David Bernstein in Articles
Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test....
0 replies - 1825 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
We’re often asked where to start when organizations want to
standardize their deployment processes across environments. Starting
with the deployment to...
1 replies - 4040 views - 10/25/12 by Eric Minick in Articles
We’ve all been there — it’s Friday night, 11:00 p.m., and the system you just deployed doesn’t work. There's a bug. Your manager just hung up. You...
0 replies - 5309 views - 07/19/12 by Jeremy Hess in Articles
In the software world, development and QA are often organised into two separate teams.
Developers are responsible for writing the code, which...
0 replies - 4745 views - 06/30/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles
Hey, let’s be careful out there.--Sergeant Esterhaus, daily briefing to the force of Hill Street BluesWhen
developers run into an unexpected bug and...
3 replies - 10689 views - 03/19/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
One of the main ideas behind DevOps adoption is the concept of “infrastructure as code”.
Tools like Puppet or Chef allow you to programmatically define...
0 replies - 3274 views - 01/24/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
It’s the end of the year. Time to look back on what you’ve done, what
you’ve learned, your successes and mistakes, and what you learned from
them. I...
1 replies - 6396 views - 01/06/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
So, this next one, for me, points out something that I felt was a difficulty in being a tester with development experience. See part one here.I
don't...
5 replies - 7267 views - 12/01/11 by Dawn Cannan in Articles
Towards the end of the week before last and the beginning of last
week we’d been having quite a few problems with our QA environment to
the point where...
2 replies - 2682 views - 11/14/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
Cirilo Wortel recently attended the QA&TEST Conference which featured a strong list of speakers and a wide variety of talks on test automation, user...
1 replies - 3905 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Technical debt and design debt are
synonymous, neologistic metaphors referring to the eventual consequences
of slapdash software architecture and hasty...
1 replies - 4328 views - 10/28/11 by Dror Helper in Articles
Of all of my "aha!" moments in transitioning from a waterfall-style QA
person to an agile tester, the one I am about to talk about is...
20 replies - 9237 views - 09/29/11 by Dawn Cannan in News
A few months back I discovered a tool called WatiN.
This is based on WatiR and is a web application testing tool for Dot
Net developers. After doing a few...
3 replies - 5337 views - 07/26/11 by Paul Stack in News
At the 2010 Norwegian Developer's Conference, Hadi Hariri explained state and interaction testing so that developers could use both to their full advantage...
0 replies - 8442 views - 05/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
