test design

Interviews

How to Not Test Everything: An Interview with Eric Jacobson

We sat down with Eric Jacobson, quality assurance manager at Turner Broadcast Systems, to learn more about why testers don't need to test everything on a project—no matter who taught them that they should. Eric shared some interesting ways to stop this potentially quality harming trend.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Breaking the Testing Norms: An Interview with Fiona Charles
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We had the chance to sit down with Fiona Charles ahead of her session titled "Using Mindmaps to Develop a Test Strategy" that she'll be giving on April 11 at STARCANADA. Fiona shares with us some of the ways that mindmaps are able to break up the monotony and help create an organized strategy.
Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
From One Expert to Another: Dan Wellman

Steve Berczuk speaks with Dan Wellman about the agile practice of test-driven development (TDD), including prerequisites to instituting TDD, the technical and cultural challenges to using it, and some ideal (and not-so-ideal) contexts for it.

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A Closer Look at API Testing: An Interview with Ole Lensmar
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TechWell's Noel Wurst got the chance to sit down with Ole Lensmar, Chief Architect at SmartBear. Ole discussed the differences between unit and API testing, the importance of choosing the best testing methods, and the benefits of reusing test assets.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Emphasizing Quality in Testing: An Interview with Bob Crews
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Bob Crews, president and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, discusses the latest trends in software testing while stressing the need for expert methodologies in both manual and automated testing procedures.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Rajini Padmanaban Effective Test Data Design: An Interview with Rajini Padmanaban

At STARWEST 2012, Rajini Padmanaban is delivering a session titled “The Art of Designing Test Data” and she recently spoke with TechWell Editor Noel Wurst to share her knowledge on this topic.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Buccaneer Scholar James Bach at STAREAST 2009
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In this video from STAREAST 2009, tester and author James Bach talks about the context-driven school of software testing, his latest book, and how both the history of ideas and the discovery of oxygen can be connected to software testing.

Joey McAllister's picture Joey McAllister

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