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 Counting Defects
Author(s): Bert Wijgers
Summary: Defect counts are often considered as measurements of product quality. However, the most important defect count in that respect is by definition unknown; the number of undiscovered errors. Defect counts can be used as indicators of process quality. In doing so, one should avoid assuming simple causal relations. Defect counts can provide useful information but have to be presented with care.
Date Posted: Dec 10, 2010 |
GUI Usability Design and Validation with Paper Prototypes
Author(s): Ann Walker
Summary: Usability testing of early GUI designs with paper prototypes validates that you are building the right applications for your customers. This low-cost, high-impact practice allows you to rapidly evolve the GUI interface and find many design bugs early in the development process before coding begins. With this process, you can get external customers and internal users actively involved in designing and testing the GUI with tools they can easily manipulate. Based on project experiences at The MathWorks, Inc., you will learn how to move from the paper prototype to a coded GUI and a set of automated tests. In addition, you will learn to develop user documentation while working back and forth between the GUI and the test plan to clarify design choices.
Date Posted: Aug 5, 2010 |
Acceptance Testing: What It is and How To Do It Better—in Context
Author(s): Michael Bolton
Summary: When test engineers use the term "acceptance testing," they might be saying and thinking profoundly different things. Acceptance testing can mean one of at least a dozen approaches to the testing of a product and serve one or more of at least thirty different customer roles in a project. Tests and testing approaches that are appropriate in one context can be unacceptable—even disastrous—in another. When someone asks you to do user acceptance testing, what should you do? When should you do it? How do you determine success? Michael Bolton outlines the ways in which testers and test managers use context-driven thinking to better serve the mission of acceptance testing and develop skills to handle dramatically different testing situations.
Date Posted: Jul 29, 2010 |
Unconscious Limitations to Your Testing
Author(s): Lynn McKee
Summary: This article examines the limitations to testing efforts that testers unconsciously apply. Limitations such as premature conclusions, assumptions, biases and industry norms can all cut the thinking process short. Suggestions will be offered on how to identify when you are limiting your testing and how to challenge yourself to keep your mind actively thinking.
Date Posted: May 20, 2010 |
Agile in Motion: Beginner's Mind and Promiscuous Pairing
Author(s): Joey McAllister
Summary: In this iterations interview, Joey McAllister interviews Arlo Belshee on the "beginner's mind" and "promiscuous pairing."
Date Posted: Dec 15, 2008 |
A Word with the Wise: Configuration Management Tips from Steve Berczuk
Author(s): Joey McAllister
Summary: Steve Berczuk offers some tips to organizations dealing with configuration management (CM) issues.
Date Posted: Dec 15, 2008 |
A Word with the Wise: Assessment First with David Dang
Author(s): Joey McAllister
Summary: Before you shift directly into drive with that shiny, new test automation tool--exciting though it may be, with its amazing features and "new tool" smell--take a moment to consider where you need it to take you. According to David Dang, assessment of the project and its goals should always come first in test automation projects. Otherwise, you risk maintainability issues down the road.
Date Posted: Nov 17, 2008 |
White Paper: Testing Tools to Support Agile Testing Software Delivery
Author(s): Company: Borland
Summary: Agile delivery brings with it a new set of challenges; among them, functional test automation—opinion is divided in the agile community on the value of automated testing. However the reality is that software teams must manage quality if they are to avoid operational risk. Nothing about agile is pre-determined or dictated so it's no surprise that businesses find it challenging to implement agile as a trusted business process—using tools to automate their agile delivery process is yet another variable that complicates the decisions they must make.
Date Posted: Nov 3, 2008 |
A Word with the Wise: Automation Analyzed with Linda Hayes
Author(s): Joey McAllister
Summary: As the corporate technology officer for automation company Worksoft, Linda Hayes is deeply involved in the software testing industry. Hayes has witnessed automation's growth and evolution firsthand and, while the field may retain its detractors and abusers, Hayes believes there are more positive changes ahead. In this article, Joey McAllister and Linda Hayes discuss those changes.
Date Posted: Oct 22, 2008 |
The Agile Experience: Multitasking Is Evil
Author(s): Clarke Ching
Summary: "Multitasking" is often seen as a desirable skill--you can buy books or pay to attend courses that will teach you how to do it--but it is a surprisingly debilitating idea. It can send businesses to bankruptcy.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2008 |
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