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 - 1665 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 - 1720 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
I’ve always heard that it was difficult to move from QA into development (game design/programming/art/production). I thought this was smart- QA people should...
0 replies - 3307 views - 12/14/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles
That ThoughtWorks consultants, with others, were at Google for a year and a half on a mission to help socialize better testing practice, is now a matter of...
0 replies - 4968 views - 11/14/12 by Paul Hammant in Articles
Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a
painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven
development), and...
22 replies - 23027 views - 10/27/12 by Shannon Behrens 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 - 3949 views - 10/25/12 by Eric Minick 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 - 4671 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 - 10489 views - 03/19/12 by Jim Bird 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 - 6300 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 - 7178 views - 12/01/11 by Dawn Cannan 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 - 3845 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
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 - 9133 views - 09/29/11 by Dawn Cannan 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 - 8348 views - 05/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Tools like FitNesse allows test automation to happen quickly and broadly. However, many companies can't support it in their infrastructure. Dawn Cannan got...
0 replies - 9116 views - 07/07/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
The JProfiler,
or "Java Profiler", has many useful features for Java developers.
Efficient profiling is paramount in application performance...
8 replies - 9092 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
