Test Planning

Jeremy Carey-Dressler describes how changes in technology, like the growth of mobile devices over personal computing, has altered the traditional roles of testers and their methods. As the market creates winners and losers, things will settle down some and it will become slightly easier to have common test techniques. For now, testers must get used to change.

Mukesh Sharma writes that if you want to build an effective performance test strategy involving smart devices, you need to consider rendering times. It’s no longer OK to simply measure the response times on desktop web applications like we did in the past. For mobile, the rendering time can make all the difference between a good and a bad user experience.  

Every time we look at the data, we perform an analysis that helps us make decisions—hopefully the right ones. In this article, Gil Zilberfeld describes a few traps where bug data misled him to make bad decisions. These traps are in the data itself, not the tools, and can lead us in the wrong direction.

Justin Rohrman writes about the benefits of smoke tests. These tests can be simple and concise, and because of that, low cost. Spending a few minutes of your time watching the smoke test run can be a fantastic way to defocus and notice some things about your product that may normally go unnoticed.