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Shipping software is a team effort

Monday, May 24, 2010

Since I was young I was involved in team sports. I played little league baseball during my elementary years, in junior high I switched to football, and in high school I played lacrosse. Growing up on the right (east) coast of America a lot of us boys would also play pick-up pond hockey when the [...]

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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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Random Test Data Generation

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Wednesday, May 30, 20
I am not a big fan of static test data, so this month’s issue of Software Testing and Performance magazine published an article I wrote outlining one approach for generating random string data (although the basic concepts can be used for generating other types of random data).
Unfortunately, it appears that [...]

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Allpairs, Pairwise, Combinatorial Analysis

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Originally Published Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Last week I went to StarWest as a presenter and as a track chair to introduce speakers. Being a track chair is wonderful because you get to interface more closely with other speakers. Anyway…one of the speakers I introduced was Jon Bach. Jon is a good public speaker, and I [...]

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The Purpose of a Good Test Case

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Originally Published Friday, September 15, 2006
Many experts have written articles and devoted chapters of books on the attributes of what constitutes a ‘good’ test case. Unfortunately, most books repeat a common (yet limited) perspective that a good test case has a high probability of finding bugs, and Kaner goes to the extreme by stating “A [...]

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