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Dynamics of Exploratory Testing

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:43:23 +0000

Whitepaper by Jon and James Bach Two decades after the term “exploratory testing” was invented, many people don’t understand it. Some even call it “monkey testing” — clicking around the screen with only a primal intelligence, hoping to stumble on to a bug. They decry its efficacy because they say the testing steps aren’t precise or [...]

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Threats are caused by a combination of defects!

Testing the future — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:27:04 +0000

Feed from Testing the future Security testing is always very thankful, many defects, many examples for the trainer of a course. Sir Wilfred Grenfell once said: “Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” He mentioned this quote while he was helping others with medical support. But [...]

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Software Testing challenges in the Spiral Lifecycle model

Tech Manager — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:26:34 +0000

Feeds from Tech Manager Having looked at the Sequential and Iterative models in the previous posts, let us now look at testing in the Spiral Lifecycle model. The spiral model is generally used in large, complex and expensive projects. Development activity proceeds via a sequence of prototypes that are designed, prototyped and tested. Learnings from earlier [...]

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Java Performance and Load Testing: Best Practices

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:38:51 +0000

The performance test for J2EE application is a difficult task unless you plan well earlier. During development, you need to gather user requirements, understand the business need and make a formal schedule for testing. The performance test is supposed to be based on some use cases. This can be based on past data or anticipated [...]

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An Evening With Adam Goucher

Eric Jacobson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:03:52 +0000

Feed from Testthisblog.com Tuesday night I had the pleasure of dining with famed Canadian tester Adam Goucher at Figo Pasta in the Atlanta suburb of Vinings. Adam was in town for training and looking for other testers to meet. Joining us was soon-to-be-famed Marlena Compton, another Atlanta-based tester like myself (and long time caver friend of [...]

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How to Measure ROI for Automated Testing

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:30:25 +0000

Software companies use test automation to reduce the cost of the testing. At the same time, it lowers the testing cycle and improves the effectiveness of testing. IT firms use automated testing as a crucial point for their QA program. But, the need for manual testing can never be ruled out completely. Automated test is associated [...]

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Structures of Exploratory Testing: Resources

DevelopSense — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:41 +0000

Feed from DevelopSense.com In a Webinar that he did for uTest on December 10, James Whittaker mused aloud about what a great idea it would be to structure exploratory testing and capture ideas about it in a repository for sharing with others. It seems to me that one ideal version of that would take the [...]

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Automated Exploratory Testing

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:09 +0000

Exploratory testing is distinguished from Scripted testing, which represent the traditional way of performing tests in which the test process is divided into several activities such as Study, Test Documentation and Test Execution that have to be performed in a sequential way (for example: Test Execution can not start until all test documentations are ready). Many [...]

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Top 10 Performance Testing Mistakes

Tapan_P — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:17:24 +0000

1 Incorrect Load Levels Fix: Improve and focus communications by conducting a one-on-one interview to determine expected “real world” load levels. If the application is already in production, obtain live usage data. 2 Performance Tester Identifying Key Business Processes Fix: Conduct a one-on-one interview to identify key business processes: mission critical, heavy...

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Teaching Exploratory and Session Based Testing

Eric Jacobson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:41:31 +0000

Feed from Testthisblog.com My former manager and esteemed colleague asked me to teach a two hour class about Session Based Testing (SBT). We had tried SBT a couple years ago, when I was fresh out of Michael Bolton’s excellent Rapid Software Testing course. I was nervous as hell about the class because most of the testers [...]

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