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Tag Archives: software testing
Know Yourself as a Tester
Who are you? How do you behave? And how does it affect your testing? I was pair-testing with a colleague, which gave me an excellent opportunity to study his testing behaviour. He had to enter a five digit number repeatedly, … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, people, software testing
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Tying Up Some Loose Ends
I think it is time for a follow-up on my experience of applying Thread-Based Test Management (TBTM). In October last year I blogged about my attempt at setting up my tests for a new project using TBTM. It was a smaller … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, risk driven, software testing, visualization tools
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Regression Testing – Strategic and Risk-driven, Can You Afford Not To?
Planning your testing effort for the next project: How much time do you have? How many people do you have? _How_ big was that scope again? As testing is virtually always constrained with not enough time, not enough people, not … Continue reading
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Click OK to Crash
I – of course – use a risk-based approach in my testing, meaning that checking the exact phrasing of error messages is very far down on my prioritised list of test tasks. As long as the message is relevant and … Continue reading
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Physicists – Testers in Disguise?
My background is in science. I have spent 11 years (a third of my life, believe it or not) studying mathematics, statistics and most importantly – physics, experimental astroparticle physics to be specific. I have been trained to be sceptical … Continue reading
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Spinning Threads Into Yarn
Recently the approach I have had to my testing has been heavily influenced by session-based test management. I have made a test plan consisting of a high-level list of test tasks. The testing has been exploratory, performed in sessions on … Continue reading
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Picking Up a New Thread
I have just spent the weekend at a very inspiring peer conference on exploratory testing (Swedish Workshop on Exploratory Testing, SWET1) in Stockholm. There were many interesting presentations and discussions, but what is on my mind right now is James … Continue reading
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Play Me a Song
My sister was visiting us a few weeks ago so that she might meet her new niece in person. She lives about 1500km away from us, so it’s just far enough away to make these sorts of visits infrequent. I … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, high performance teams, people, process improvement, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, uat
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Survey Report – Project Success & Test Outsourcing
This summer, we put out a quick 10-question survey regarding software development and outsourcing or contracting of testing services. The intention of the survey was to use the responses to paint a picture of the attitude or approach towards outsourcing … Continue reading
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Using Agile Principles to Get an “A” With the Customer Every Time
Agile is a frequent topic in process improvement discussions and networking events alike – some going for Agile all the way and others rejecting it as something that won’t work for their projects or customers. In general, I have found … Continue reading
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