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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Complex != Better

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I know all about over-engineering. I previously wrote about a barn my father designed and built using telephone poles and oak planks and pallets for the stall walls. From a structural perspective this barn would have stood virtually anything mother nature could have thrown at it. And if someday people wanted to tear down that [...]

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Boundary Bugs…like shooting fish in a barrel

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

If there is a bug at a boundary that doesn’t lead to an unhandled exception or security exploit should we care?
Perhaps an even more important question is why do we find so many boundary type bugs via exploratory testing when they can and should be caught earlier? Why don’t we find these types of bugs [...]

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Meaningful Measures

Sunday, March 21, 2010

I arrived in Switzerland on Monday morning and met with our team here in Zurich who work on the communication server. Tuesday I presented a tutorial on advanced combinatorial testing and delivered a keynote address at Swiss Testing Days on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I really didn’t get to spend a lot of time exploring the city, [...]

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Do I Really Need To Automate This Test?

Monday, March 8, 2010

For the past 2 weeks my students in my automation course at University of Washington have been tasked with designing automated test cases through the GUI for a shareware program. In my opinion, GUI automation is the least effective approach for testing the functional or business logic of a program (assuming a well designed architecture [...]

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Programmatically Detecting The Operating System Version (Part II)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Time is a commodity in short supply! It has been more than 2 weeks since my last post. I have not been sitting idle, but really haven’t had a lot of free time to write. In preparation for my up-coming trip to Zurich, Switzerland to give a workshop and keynote at Swiss Testing Day I [...]

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