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What is main goal for tester in a sofware project?
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Requirements traceability in incremental development
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Ainars Galvans replied to Catherine Karena's discussion Outsourcing testing to India"Catherine, honestly I don’t get exactly what are you referring to as “this issue”. Outsourcing is not an issue, but a solution. There are a lot of issues that you could run into by doing outsourcing however. Which particular issue…"
Ainars Galvans replied to Michael Persson's discussion How to handle possible defects that appears during testing?"I use pencil and paper a lot, especially when start testing something new: new application, new major feature, new screen. When it’s new it means most of my notes are “throw away”. Should I realize any is not – I would…"
Ainars Galvans replied to Haroon Shahzad's discussion Software Test Automation Tool Help"Yes please talk to your boss or developers - what is the protocol and how could the traffic at protocol level could be emulated – maybe developers could help. The only free tools I know are HTTP based indeed. For example HP LoadRunner is able…"
Ainars Galvans replied to Haroon Shahzad's discussion Software Test Automation Tool Help"Haroon,
If you ask a question on a forum here, please be so kind and try to understand what we suggest you and what additional information we are asking for. If you don’t understand something we say – tell us what you don’t…"
Ainars Galvans commented on Ainars Galvans's blog post Quality is not dead, it’s assessed finally (in few industries)"Richard, thanks for comment, indeed this point deserves more detailed explanation.
So when I buy stuff I make a careful choice between quality and cost. I may need to guess based on brand and cost, but it’s the choice I make. However when I…"
Richard Hill commented on Ainars Galvans's blog post Quality is not dead, it’s assessed finally (in few industries)"Thanks for the article,there are some well observed points here and its very interesting so could you explain this point more..
When a city council decided to build a heating system, road or sewerage they can’t…"
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- About Me:
- I proudly call myself a tester, although I also do management, QA, hiring and few other tasks.
I'm an advocate of context-driven testing and strongly believe that manual testing is as hard task as automated and performance and should be carried by a cross-functional testing team with an optional support by experts in each area
- Are you...?
- happily employed
- Experience in years...
- 10+
- Do you specialise in any particular area of Software Testing?
- Manual Exploratory Testing. Performance testing.
Ainars Galvans's Blog
Subconscious, casual or even coincidental tests
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 15:00 0 Comments 1 Like
A few days ago I discovered a bug, developer fixed it and I retested it. The only issue here is – I do not have a “test case” that covers this bug. So how I found it?
I’m testing web service and all my tests are automated, each have it’s setup (crate data), testing (do actions with data) and clean-up (delete data)…
Continue Regression testing redefined
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 16:58 3 Comments 1 Like
This comes from Wikipedia:
Regression testing is to determine whether a change in one part of the software affects other parts of the software
This is not wrong, but it’s incomplete. Discovering that “a change in one part of the software affects other parts of the software”…
Continue My code of professional ethics
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 14:30 1 Comment 0 Likes
I have and follow my code of ethics in software testing, do you? My code is simple – I ever do only things that would let me be proud of what I’ve done. Perhaps everyone does so. So I decided to go into a little bit more details here because for me the ethics means that I am ready to (and I did a few times) say NO to my boss or my customer if I don’t believe I could be proud about the results.
So reasons why I refuse to my boss, or my customer doing some tasks or even participating…
Continue Software testing in banking industry: an uncommon story?
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:06 2 Comments 2 Likes
I’m confused when I see people from other industries taking banking industry as example of high quality software caused by high stake/risk. Banking software is far from perfect. Perfect software cost a lot and is illusion anyway. If internet banking sites are more or less user friendly, then back-office and teller software is not much better than green screens form 80ties. There are a lot of back office people doing workarounds, manual fixes, etc. Why so? I think the reason is high…
Continue Checks-Driven regression testing is (still) a best practice?
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:00 2 Comments 2 Likes
I’ve never been recommending doing too detailed test design (scripted tests) before test execution. The only exception was the tests we do to address regression risks. For years I believed that the outcome of a new feature testing must be well chosen tests, documented to the level to make it as fast as possible to do the regression testing. I hated to do the brainless and boring regression tests, but I did them because I knew I should – this is the best practice to…
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- At 12:47 on January 23, 2010,
Robert Healy said… - Ainars,
Your blog posts are really very good. Your last two, in particular, struck me as well thought out and neatly communicated.
Well done,
- Rob
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