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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Code Coverage: More Than Just a Number

Thursday, January 21, 2010

When I was growing up I would sometimes go down into my grandfather’s basement. He had amassed a variety of tools during his lifetime and he was an excellent wood craftsman. I wasn’t allowed to touch any of the power tools, because his rule was, “if you don’t know how to use a tool properly [...]

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Boundary bug hunting; sometimes it’s almost too easy!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

This past weekend I was working on a new test tool library for generating random email addresses; specifically the local address segment of an email address. I know, there are already a lot of email address generators available and this could be construed as reinventing the wheel. But I wanted to give my students in [...]

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API Testing – Thinking Differently About the Problem

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Last year the University of Washington Extension Program started running a new Software Test Automation using C# program that I designed and developed for experienced testers with little or no programming background. The program is very popular and has more than 60 people waiting for the next offering. Unfortunately, the pay is not that great [...]

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