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With the latest edition of the Testing Planet out in the wild it’s now time to open the doors for new article submissions for the next edition, due out around October 2010.
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How To Reproduce Bugs
Sorry, I’m about to go on vacation, and I couldn’t resist… My name is Joe Strazzere and I’m currently a Director of Quality Assurance.I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing.Find me at http://strazzere.blogspot….
Are You Really a Team?
These days, many of us work in Agile teams or in integrated SCRUM teams. We’re no longer the development team and the test team and the design team. Instead, we’re one team working together to ship product. At least, that’s what we tell people.If this …
How to Create a Fear-Based Culture
Hi folks,Here is a great blog post from The Next Level Blog by Scott Elbin. Those who know me, know I’m big on the human factors in software development and testing. A big part of that is culture. One of Dr. Demming’s 14 points is to “Drive out fear.” …
Breaking software, or not
There is a lot of talk about testers breaking software: articles, blog posts and even books on this topic. It seems that a lot of testers get their job satisfaction in breaking stuff and a sign of a good tester is that they can break anything. But when…
Larry O’Brien on User Testing
A couple weeks back (which means it’s now available on the Web), Larry O’Brien covered user testing to show that development shops could actually, you know, see how users work with a software tool.
Nut grafs:
There’s a part of me that loves user …
: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps
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Off the beaten track
You learn a lot more when things don’t quite go to plan, than when everything goes smoothly. So here’s a story I think we can all learn from.
James and I wanted to do a kind of performance test which involved the creation of many elements in our sy…
Test Management: The job description should already be written
Recently a curious soul put out an open question to the general LinkedIn test manager community at large about whether they, as test managers, or some one else writes job descriptions for openings about to be posted publicly or internally. As with mo…
July UKTMF
A big thanks to Paul Gerrard and Susan Windsor for organising yesterdays UK Test Management Forum in London. Also a big thanks to the sponsors for the event; SQS UK, Original Software and Tricentis Technology & Consulting
It was a cracking turn out with about 100 people there. Great to see so many familiar faces but also lots of new faces too.
Paul started the afternoon with news of the merger between his company, Gerrard Consulting, and Susan Windsor’s company, WMHL. They are keeping the Gerrard Consulting name and are looking to expand in to the main stage of the consulting world. They both talked about a new tool called Testela which sounded interesting. Looking forward to finding out more when it’s released.
BTW – Stephen Hill’s blog is an excellent write up of the afternoon…here, so I wont do any more other than to include some photos.
There was a lot to agree with and a lot to disagree with about Jonathan Pearson’s talk on “The Dark Side of Application Quality Management Ten Black Holes to Avoid For Successful Application Delivery” Some lively discussions took place around metrics and agile and many other topics. Jonathon also remained dressed as Obi Wan for the entire talk. Impressive. I must admit that their tool is looking increasingly like a tool capable of satisfying many needs within the testing community. It appears to be flexible, incredibly extensible and doesn’t empose restrictions on how and what methodology or approach you can take. It’s also got support for exploratory testing, which sounds very interesting indeed.
Second up for me was James Wilson. I worked with James many years ago and his topic of choice was very interesting. Why is testing in an Agile with Scrum environment hard? (And what can we do about it?)
It was one of the best discussions I’ve had for a long time. The presentation essentially got hijacked but there were some interesting ideas put forward about how to run soak tests in short sprints and how to manage the quality of your release, when time and cost are fixed. Good stuff.
As usual, some after conference drinks 
Ways Starbucks Is Like A Dev Team
An author identifies some of the ways Starbucks order taking and processing mirrors software:
I just returned from a 2 week trip to Japan. One of the more familiar sights was the ridiculous number of Starbucks coffee shops, especially around Shinjuku …
If Your Browser Looks Like This, You’ve Already Lost
In another life, one where I’m significantly more creative (and attractive), I was a UX engineer. I love LOVE slick, cool-looking and time-saving UI features. The new Tab Candy feature in Firefox is one such feature. Ars has a writeup about it here, …
A Human Bias Toward Standards of Perfection
In a fascinating TED Talk, Laurie Santos shows that monkeys make the same kinds of economic errors as humans do. Another way to say this: Humans make some of the same kinds of economic errors as monkeys do.
Early in the video, Santos asked a question t…
Migrating a Hudson instance
Quick post to hopefully help others with an error I got when moving our Hudson instance from Windows to its new home on a Linux server.The basic migration is super easy – just zip up the Hudson home directory (default on Windows XP is C:\Documents and …
The Testing Planet Newspaper is Here!
The Software Testing
Club has done it again! Their quarterly “print”, has been redone and now we have
“The Testing Planet” as a newspaper! I just got mine in the mail the other day, and
I have to say it’s pretty dang unique, informative and fun. You too can buy your own Printed
Copy, but if you can’t find it within yourself to go old school and read the printed
paper, you can download it for free here.
You should probably buy a copy for safe keeping though, because it contains two of
the worlds best QA comics: Cartoon
Tester and Do
Loop Until 0. Which makes the paper INVALUABLE!
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