Teknologika - The software testing blog of Bruce McLeod

10 steps to a successful testing career

Bruce — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:18:48 +0000

This is a presentation that I gave earlier this year to group of new testers, hoping to guide them on how to gave a great testing career. 10 steps for a successful testing careerView more presentations from teknologika.

Journey to 1000 tests a day

Bruce — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:36:48 +0000

To help, give something back to the community, I recently gave a presentation at the 2011 ignite software testing conference in Sydney. Here is an updated version of that presentation. Journey to 1000 tests a day View more presentations from teknologika

The problems with software testing

Bruce — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:54:16 +0000

There is a lot of sound advice in Rob Lambert's free book The problems with software testing, he covers all the big topics that come up regularly when discussing testing with testers. More ....

Testcast Shows #6 and 7 with James Bach

Bruce — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:38:10 +0000

A lot has happened over the last few weeks. One of the most enjoyable experiences was to meet James Bach at the Sydney testers meetup. Since then, Trish and I caught up with James again over Skype to record a couple of episodes of Testcast. In the first half of the show we discuss walking [...]

Testcast Show #5 Pass cakes and fail cakes

Bruce — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:28:02 +0000

In test cast show #5 we discuss baked goods, Trish’s six blogs, Bruce’s blogs, sqa.stackexchange.com. Then we finally get down to this weeks main topic, test data. Specifically, when is it OK to use production data in your testing. Head over to http://www.testcast.net and download a copy.

Testcast Show #4 – This domain looks Japanese to me

Bruce — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:26:51 +0000

Were’ back ….. in this episode, we talk about the Given-When-Then test case syntax, record and playback, excel-based test generation, waterfall, gated release processes and ask the question: should testers be consulted in the UI design process? Head over to http://www.testcast.net and download a copy.

Testcast show #3 – Did I get the Job?

Bruce — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:10:50 +0000

For show #3 Trish and I discuss hiring and interviewing testers, and put each other through our software testing interview paces. Head over to http://www.testcast.net and download a copy.

Testcast Show #2 Automation evolution

Bruce — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:23:34 +0000

Testcast Launches

Bruce — Sun, 29 May 2011 03:39:11 +0000

If you follow my blog, you will have noticed that things have been very slow lately. There are a couple of reasons for that, but one of the main ones is that I have been working with Trish to finally record and launch a long incubating idea, Testcast. In this launch show of Testcast, we [...]

Testing Stax Control Grabber is now available for download

Bruce — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:19:30 +0000

The Testing Stax Control Grabber is now available for download from Codeplex. What is this thing ? This is a generator that tries to fast track the creation of your stax control classes. To use, open internet explorer at the page you want to capture, enter a namespace and drag the cursor onto the [...]