Jose Fajardo

This presentation delineates a methodology for conducting capacity tests. The methodology introduces the various stages associated with performing a capacity test. The author elucidates the crucial activities that should be performed and monitored before a capacity test takes place. Furthermore, the author shows a roadmap for the initial and concluding stages that will lead to the successful completion of a capacity test.

This article introduces suggested questions that can be presented to a candidate interviewing for a QA/Testing position. The suggested questions would help a test manager assess a candidate's knowledge of QA concepts and technical skills. The test manager can create a sample set of questions from this article and that will help them form a framework for efficiently interviewing future candidates.

In this article the author delineates some of the training issues confronting organizations that purchase automated test tools. The article delves into the copious decisions that a test manager has to make in order to get their testers properly trained on the use of the purchased automated test tools. Numerous insights are provided to help companies cope with the complexities associated with training testing resources.

The author has compiled testing blunders that can undermine a company's testing efforts. This article offers insights and recommendations for avoiding many of these testing problems. He focuses on seemingly trivial issues such as naming conventions or collection of testing metrics, as well as on identification and classification of testing data. You can use these insights to avoid planting the seeds of major problems.

Testers often ask: what should be automated? It is not practical or feasible to automate all of a corporation’s business processes or test requirements. In this template, the author provides twenty-five distinct criteria factors that testers can assess and review before they commence their automation tasks.

Corporations invest heavily in implementing ERP solutions as a cornerstone solution for their enterprise IT architecture. These solutions are used to support mission critical business processes such as human resources, supply chain, and finance. Implementing an ERP solution is a resource intensive, and time-consuming effort that needs to be carefully managed. Many of the corporations that spend millions of dollars in customizing and integrating an ERP solution often overlook and sidestep a critical software lifecycle step which is the comprehensive testing of the ERP system before deploying into a production environment. In this article, the author offers some suggestions, hints and a testing framework to help corporations deploy their ERP solutions with confidence and quality by focusing on the SAP R/3 ERP package.

Unfortunately many corporations make blunders with their automation strategy even before a single test script has been automated with a testing tool. In this article, Jose Fajardo will discuss some considerations that should be examined before purchasing expensive automated testing tools and working with them. The author also suggests some robust automated testing approaches and dispels some common testing misconceptions based on his actual hands-on automated testing experience.

In this article, the author shares some of his insights from previous testing engagements. He hopes to help testing professionals make informed decisions before they initiate a performance test for capacity planning, measuring an application's response times, identifying degradation points, breaking points, and bottlenecks. Flawed testing techniques are also pointed out as lessons learned from several projects and a mitigation path for overcoming these flawed testing techniques is also explained.