Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Saturday, September 12, 2009
I have spent the last week in Israel teaching our new SDET course in Herzillya and our Senior SDET course in Haifa. I also did a lot of listening and discussing various issues relating to software testing and the maturation of our discipline; not just here in Israel, but [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, September 10, 2009
I am really happy to announce that our book has been released in China and available on the Chinese Amazon site! This was really a monumental effort driven by my friend and colleague Kelly Zhang.
We look forward to the feedback from the Chinese testing community, and we hope [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Last week I talked about the silliness of wasting time calculating the return on investment (ROI) of an automation effort on any non-trivial software project; especially if it has an extended shelf-life. As my friend Joe Strazzre commented, “If you need an ROI analysis to convince business management that test [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I just finished reading Implementing Automated Software Testing by E.Dustin, T. Garrett, and B. Gauf and overall this is a good read providing some well thought out arguments for beginning an automation project, and provides strategic perspectives to manage a test automation project. The first chapter made several excellent points [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Saturday, August 15, 2009
My daughter made me laugh today when she offered a bit of her philosophy. She told me that her favorite candy is gummy bears “because gummy bears get stuck between your teeth, and then you can dig out a second helping with your tongue.” I never really thought of [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I remember as a young lad working construction for my uncle one summer. The hours were long, it was hot, and I would much rather have been somewhere else. But, I was saving up for my first motorcycle, so I did whatever jobs I could find. Perhaps it was because [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Saturday, August 01, 2009
When many people think of test automation they envision rudimentary scripts with hard-coded events and data that manipulate user interface objects much the same way a customer might interact with the software to accomplish a pre-defined, robot-like task. Perhaps this is the reason there is a plethora of tools available [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Wednesday, July 22, 2009
This week, I will keep this post quite short and redirect you to my answers to an interview by the great folks at What Is Testing. The questions covered various topics from the book How We Test Software At Microsoft, to my current role at Microsoft, to my perspectives on [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, July 16, 2009
It seems it is about this time of year that I need to detach a bit from the world to reflect back on the past year and reevaluate my personal and professional goals moving forward. Perhaps I am just getting older or perhaps just a bit wiser (that is synonymous [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Wednesday, May 20, 2009
When we report a bug our hope is that bug is fixed. But, of course we know that isn’t always the case which is why there are usually several alternative resolutions developers, project managers, or managers may choose for resolving a bug such as postponed, won’t fix, and by [...]