Brian Noggle
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12 years 3 monthsBrian J. Noggle has worked in quality assurance and technical writing for over a decade, working with a variety of software types and industries. He currently works as a freelance software testing consultant through his own company, Jeracor Group LLC and has published a novel set in the IT world, John Donnelly's Gold.
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Testing a User Session TimeoutSome situations and applications display a timeout message to the user to indicate the session has timed out. In other cases, the timeout takes place behind the scenes with no notification to the user. These situations will require an extra level of testing and thought to predict potentially troublesome user workflows. This article looks at both situations and how to test them. |
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The Apocalypse Plan: What to Consider before Things Go Wrong Undoubtedly, your organization has disaster plans in place for recoverable situations. But what about for going out of business? Thinking about your obligations to clients, users, customers, and partners before the worst happens can make the transition easier for everyone. Here are some people and things you should incorporate into your apocalypse plan. |
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Testing in Tongues: How to Test When You Don’t Know the Language If you’re told to test an application that’s in a language you don’t understand, don’t panic. You know enough about testing to get started, and you might actually find yourself learning something about the language itself. Brian Noggle points out a few things you can always test—regardless of whether you speak the language. |
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Picture Imperfect: Methods for Testing How Your App Handles Images On a website and in digital files, images present a set of complications and differentiations that you need to keep in mind when your application receives and presents them. Your application might rely on a library, plugin, or service built somewhere else to handle this image management, so you should test the image uploader to ensure it works correctly and handles common points of failure. Here are some things to watch out for. |
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How Skeleton Strings Can Help Your Testing Brian Noggle writes about how he uses "skeleton strings" to help him when he probes an application under test. Just as skeleton keys unlock doors, these generic skeleton strings open up access to a wide variety of defects. |