LogiGear - Software Testing and Quality Assurance

LogiGear Breakfast Event 2010 - Test Automation is no longer optional

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:09:02 -0700

By Joe Hughes

San Mateo, CA, June 16th, 2010 – LogiGear Corporation , is proud to host a panel discussion on Automated Exploratory Tests or Structured Automated Tests with well known testing thought leaders, Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology and Hung Nguyen, CEO, LogiGear Corporation "Automated Exploratory Tests or Structured Automated Tests, which one is better and can you do both?"

Click here - LogiGear Breakfast Event 2010 - Test Automation is no longer optional - to continue...

A test scenario, a bug report deferred as-designed: 437,000 Toyota Priuses recalled

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:09:02 -0700

By Hung Nguyen

I don’t mean to wage in on Toyota disastrous situation. I just think that this is an essential software testing lesson and it illustrates some key issues that testers like us have experienced over the years.

Click here - A test scenario, a bug report deferred as-designed: 437,000 Toyota Priuses recalled - to continue...

What about the V-Model?

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:09:02 -0700

By Hans Buwalda

The V-Model for Software Development specifies 4 kinds of testing:
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• Acceptance Testing

What I’m finding is that of those only the Unit Testing is clear to me. The other kinds maybe good phases in a project, but for test design it doesn’t help much. It is hard to say which tests should go in a system test, an integration test or an acceptance test.

Click here - What about the V-Model? - to continue...

Centralize? Decentralize? Concentralize!

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hans Buwalda

As I wrote in various articles, organization is one of the 3 key requisites for successful automated testing, the other two being test design and automation architecture.

A question coming up quite commonly in larger corporations and organizations is whether to centralize the test automation, either at division or corporate level, or whether to decentralize: distribute over the various groups and projects.

Click here - Centralize? Decentralize? Concentralize! - to continue...

Microsoft the next General Motors?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

I was reading an article a few months ago entitled, “is Silicon Valley the next Detroit…”, and I found it very interesting.

It was a little backwater Newsweek article (you can read it here) and probably didn’t get much press. However sensational it was, it did reference one great industry titan that once dominated our culture, General Motors (among others as a testament to the size and scope of the Detroit Metro Area and the Auto Industry – much of this parallels Silicon Valley’s dominance in the Information Technology space).

Click here - Microsoft the next General Motors? - to continue...

Have Fun Breaking Software!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hung Nguyen

My cousin was flying out of Atlanta this morning, and expected to be in San Francisco this afternoon, in time for a family get-together dinner. Unfortunately, she, along with many other travelers around the country were stuck at the airports this morning and will have to adjust their plans due to delays caused by a computer bug.

Click here - Have Fun Breaking Software! - to continue...

Ho Chi Minh City Named as One of Six Top Cities For Software Testing Outsourcing Worldwide

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — November 17, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com), Vietnam ’s leading software testing company, today announced that Ho Chi Minh City , home of the company’s new Vietnam headquarters building, has been named by Tholons / Global Services as one of the Top 6 Established Global Outsourcing Cities for Software Testing for the second consecutive year.
Click here - Ho Chi Minh City Named as One of Six Top Cities for Software Testing Outsourcing Worldwide - to continue...

Scholarships Offered to Students of Software Testing and Development as Part of LogiGear Vietnam and HCMC University of Science Joint Program

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — November 13, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com), Vietnam ’s leading software testing company, today announced the availability of three scholarships to students of the LogiGear Certified Test Professional (LCTP) program at the HCMC University of Science. Each scholarship will offer a 50% reduction in tuition costs to enrolled students who achieve the highest scores on the program’s entrance exam. The next session of the LCTP program begins November 22, 2009.

Click here - Scholarships Offered to Students of Software Testing and Development as Part of LogiGear Vietnam and HCMC University of Science Joint Program - to continue...

Automation Adoption

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

One of the basic challenges with test automation is adoption. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve cataloged licenses for a company and found out they already have many different automation software packages, none of which is being used. Traditionally I’ve been told that is because the tools don’t work and that the teams had a hard time implementing the automation.

Let’s take one thing off the table, there is NO tool problem. Most automation tools do the same thing, catalog objects, record and playback and advanced scripting abilities, so, please if you trying to organize an automation project, don’t make it a tool decision.

Click here - Automation Adoption - to continue...

Sharing Lessons Learned, Making New Friends at QA&TEST 2009 Conference in Bilbao, Spain

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hung Nguyen

I just got back from the 8th International Conference on Software QA and Testing for Embedded Systems, Oct 21 – 23. This was my first time at this conference and I’d give it a high grade for the overall quality of the content and speakers, and in particular, for the people who organize this conference. They are first class. Thanks to my new friends at SQS S.A., Spain — Sander Hanenberg, Jesús M. de la Maza and Begoña Laibara — for treating me well during the conference.

My keynote “Automation Coverage Less than 50%? Don’t Do It!” explored the common excuses for failing to achieve high-volume test automation output. It also pin-pointed underlying barriers to test automation…

Click here - Sharing Lessons Learned, Making New Friends at QA&TEST 2009 Conference in Bilbao, Spain - to continue...

LogiGear® Named One of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Bay Area

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

San Mateo, CA — October 23, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com), a leader in onshore / offshore software testing and development, announced today that the San Francisco Business Times named the company as 56th on its 2009 list of Top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
Click here - LogiGear® Named One of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Bay Area - to continue...

IEEE Conference on Global Software Development

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Michael Hackett

There was an IEEE conference in July, hosted at the University of Limerick.
International Conference on Global Software Development/Engineering
http://www.icgse.org/

I gave a tutorial on the current state of testing: Testing Teams in Globalized Software Development. There was an inquisitive group and we had a fun session. Globally, testing is not often valued as highly as it is in Silicon Valley. People were interested to see a different perspective on testing.

The conference was focused on offshoring development and not on testing. My focus was special topics in testing: various responsibilities in testing and quality, agile projects, offshoring test automation, offshore team skill building.

The most interesting thing about this conference for me was the presentation of research on various topics in offshore development…

Click here - IEEE Conference on Global Software Development - to continue...

"Automation Coverage Less Than 50%? Don’t Do It!"

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

LogiGear President & CEO Hung Nguyen will advise Software Testing Professionals at QA&TEST 2009
Bilbao, Spain — October 21, 2009 — Hung Q. Nguyen, President & CEO of LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com) will address software testing professionals during the QA&TEST 2009 (http://www.qatest.org) : 8th International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems October 21-23, 2009 at the Conference Centre and Concert Hall in Bilbao, Spain.
Click here - "Automation Coverage Less Than 50%? Don’t Do It!" - to continue...

Impressions from Star West 2009 in Anaheim

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hans Buwalda

The conference was great, good people, good discussions. The challenge I picked up is marrying theory and practice…

Click here - Impressions from Star West 2009 in Anaheim - to continue...

LogiGear® Named One of Silicon Valley’s Fastest Growing Companies

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

San Mateo, CA — October 14, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ), a leader in onshore / offshore software testing and development, announced today that the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal named the company as 33rd on its list of Fast Private 2009 companies. The FastPrivate 2009 list honors the fastest growing Silicon Valley privately-held companies.

Click here - LogiGear® Named One of Silicon Valley’s Fastest Growing Companies - to continue...

Offshoring Test Automation: Double Benefit or Double Backlash?

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

LogiGear CTO Hans Buwalda will Speak to Software Testing Professionals at Starwest

San Mateo, CA — October 8, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ) chief technology officer Hans Buwalda will address software testing professionals at Starwest October 8, 2009 at 10:30 A.M. P.T at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA . His speech, “Offshoring Test Automation: Double Benefit or Double Backlash” will reveal how LogiGear’s Action Based Testing™ and expert offshore testing services in Vietnam can be combined not just for powerful returns, but to prevent crushing losses.
Click here - Offshoring Test Automation: Double Benefit or Double Backlash? - to continue...

My Attempt to Clarify My “Everything” statement

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

I got some comments on my post “Test Everything all the Time” — most notably people commenting that it’s impossible to test “everything”. I can’t agree more. The point of the post was to make the point that we need to be able to test “everything we can” all the time. That is, you should be constantly iterating your automation, and not “waiting to run” the automation. Also, the point was to talk about how test design can solve all of your problems, not the automation tool. The tool is just an means to an end.

Click here - My Attempt to Clarify My “Everything” statement - to continue...

Giving an Atomic Bomb to a Caveman…

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

The challenges with any automation effort is to know your capability. I’ve seen too many automation efforts begin and end with a tool decision. Generally these tools are very complex pieces of software that do many more things then we would ever use in our normal everyday testing. It even adds more misery to the situation when we give this new tool to people who are entirely incapable of using and scaling the “newly” selected savior to our automation effort.

When I teach, I call this moment .. “it’s like giving and atomic bomb to a caveman”

Click here - Giving an Atomic Bomb to a Caveman… - to continue...

Four Software Testing Challenges We Must Repeatedly Overcome

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hung Nguyen

I recently came back from the Software Testing & Evaluation Summit in Washington, DC hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association. The objective of the workshop is to help recommend policy and guidance changes to the Defense enterprise, focusing on improving practice and productivity of software testing and evaluation (T&E) approaches in Defense acquisition.

So, what do I have to do with the Defense enterprise? One of the features of the workshop is to invite software testing experts from both commercial industry and academia to share state-of-the-practice strategies, processes and software testing methods. I was honored when the Director of Defense Research and Engineering asked me to do a keynote as the commercial industry-recognized subject matter expert on software testing, test automation and evaluation.

Click here - Four Software Testing Challenges We Must Repeatedly Overcome - to continue...

Test Everything all the Time...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

Back from more training, I was up at a client in Bellevue and really enjoyed teaching a performance class to a world class testing organization. I found that the students were very receptive to many of the concepts and ideas that the class offers.

One of the items that we talked about was the nature of the service based app delivery model. As we have all seen over the last 5 years, the cloud is really changing the software development deployment abstraction. I think we will see most of our applications served through this new cloud model, but our development cycles will be 10x faster and more chaotic.

Click here - Test Everything all the Time... - to continue...

LogiGear® CEO to Guide Defense Industry in Software Testing Policy Making

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

Reston, VA — September 15, 2009 — Hung Q. Nguyen, Chairman and CEO of LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ), a leader in onshore / offshore software testing and development, will speak at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)’s Software Test & Evaluation Summit/Workshop September 15, 2009 at 3:40 PM EST. An eminent thought leader in the software testing industry, Nguyen will contribute his expertise to the summit’s larger purpose in recommending policy and guidance changes to the Defense enterprise.

Click here - LogiGear® CEO to Guide Defense Industry in Software Testing Policy Making - to continue...

Continuous Iteration in Automation

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By William Coleman

I’ve been teaching a lot lately, was in India for one week, and I’m off to Seattle in two weeks to teach on performance topics. I thoroughly enjoy teaching, it allows me to stay sharp with current trends, and provides a nice break from the “implementation focus” that I generally have day to day.

Click here - Continuous Iteration in Automation - to continue...

Are Use Cases Harmful For Test Automation?

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:09:02 -0700

By Hans Buwalda

People who know me and my work probably know my emphasis on good test design for successful test automation. I have written about this in “Key Success Factors for Keyword Driven Testing”. In the Action Based Testing (ABT) method that I have pioneered over the years it is an essential element for success. However, agreeing with me in workshops and actually applying the principles in projects turn out quite often to be two different things. Apart from my own possible limitations as a teacher, I see at least one more reason: the way the testing is involved in the development projects.

Click here - Are Use Cases Harmful For Test Automation? - to continue...

LogiGear® Named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. Magazine

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

San Mateo, CA — August 28, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ), a leader in onshore / offshore software testing and development, announced today that the company was recently named by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America. LogiGear was also named on the Inc. list as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont , CA metro region.

Click here - LogiGear® Named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. Magazine - to continue...

Software Industry Thought Leaders Publish Executive Discussion of Global Software Test Automation

Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

Innovative Approach Leverages Automation and Offshore Resources

Foster City, CA — August 9, 2009 — Global Software Test Automation: A Discussion for Executives, the first book to offer software testing strategies and tactics for strategic decision makers, was published today in both paperback and e-book formats. Written by executives for executives, it is also the first to offer a practical business case for effective test automation, as part of the innovative new approach to software testing: Global Test Automation — a proven solution, backed by case studies, that leverages both test automation and offshoring to meet your organization’s quality goals.

Click here - Software Industry Thought Leaders Publish Executive Discussion of Global Software Test Automation - to continue...

LogiGear Invests in Vietnam, Leveraging Economic Downturn

Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

San Mateo, CA - August 6, 2009 - Asia’s technology market is expanding rapidly as US and European companies seek affordable software testing solutions, and LogiGear Corporation, a leader in onshore/offshore software testing and development in the US and Vietnam, anticipates intensified growth going into 2010. LogiGear Vietnam is leveraging this opportunity to invest in human resources and infrastructure, and in so doing, the future of Vietnam.

Click here - LogiGear Invests in Vietnam, Leveraging Economic Downturn - to continue...

HCMC Natural Science University and LogiGear® Vietnam Form Partnership Providing Software Testing Training and Certification

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

San Mateo, CA — July 21, 2009 — LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ), a leader in onshore / offshore software testing and development, has formed a new partnership with the Computer Science Centre of HCMC University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to provide courses and certification in software testing. The first training series awards the LogiGear Certified Test Professional (LCTP) designation, and will be held at the Computer Science Centre of HCMC University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City in District 10 of HCMC in Fall 2009.

Click here - HCMC Natural Science University and LogiGear® Vietnam Form Partnership Providing Software Testing Training and Certification - to continue...

Global Team Success Secrets for Software Development Managers

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:09:02 -0700

Press Releases 2009

Limerick, Ireland — July 13, 2009 — In his scheduled half-day tutorial for the IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2009 Conference July 13-16 in Limerick, Ireland, LogiGear Corporation ( http://www.logigear.com ) founding partner and Senior Vice President Michael Hackett will inform software development professionals about new ideas and practices designed to build more effective software test teams to benefit the entire development organization.

Click here - Global Team Success Secrets for Software Development Managers - to continue...

Why Outsource Software Testing to Vietnam?