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A few notes from my experience: 1. Transaction data depends on (map with) Master Data. So whenever the decision is made to change master data your transaction data must be adjusted 2. It is a really good idea to use live data rather than generate yo…
July 21
I try to ask the right questions and don't care about the right type of questions. Am I unique? Anyway it depend whom do I ask questions. Developers. managers, customer, scrum masters, business analysts, product owners - everyone are too busy to ans…
July 18
If you are talking about unit testing by developers, then just in case you don't know - there are tools for continuous integration able to run all the unit tests during build process and keep statistics of the code coverage and it's historical trend…
July 8
OK this reminds me of another project where we had systematic tests cases written for 10 years old application. Tests was not very detailed - they only described what are the features to test, so any new tester joined the team found -new- bugs execu…
July 6
Kalpan, when you say "Size of applications demoralize testers to write all possible test cases" do you really mean just lack of motivation to do it? Do you believe it's a feasible task to write all the possible test cases? Wouldn't it take another 1…
July 5
Wait a bit, you told your wekness is "We don't communicate what we test". Now it looks like you believe your defect database will tell you everything about your progress and efforts, products stability, risks, etc. - you just need the right formula.…
July 1
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It is very hard to write test cases in a way useful for experienced tester, possible to execute for newbie, understandable for business, impressive for manager and smart for developer. It is hard but possible when all the stakeholders are one team w…
July 1
performance reports & data mining.. do you talk about performance tests? I had similar (or a likely) challenge in functional testing for years. Here is my idea for why this is a natural/human mistake My latest conclusion is that the problem is in i…
July 1

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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
Website:
http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/profiles/blog/list?user=2ii6qdzx...
Experience in years...
10+
Do you specialise in any particular area of Software Testing?
Manual Exploratory Testing. Performance testing.

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Mission impossible: serving all the stakeholders

Disclaimer: what follows is a semi-real story, I've made up a few facts to sound it more dramatical (I'm a writer at the end, not a reporter).

It is very hard to write test cases in a way useful for experienced tester, possible to execute for newbie, understandable for business, impressive for manager and smart… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2010 at 11:00am —

Ainars Galvans

Is your boss a manager or a leader?

Do you know the difference and do you care? I did early in my career, because my primary goal was to advance: to improve my technical skills. I liked my first boss (I was a programmer back then). He wasn’t very good programmer, but was well aware of technology available and challenged me to use whatever he found useful. He let me feel smart, but be kept under control at the same time. My next boss only helped me to feel smart and eventually slowed down my progress…


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Posted on June 14, 2010 at 1:42pm — 6 Comments

Ainars Galvans

Selenium VS WatiJ

My ultimate goal in the last week was to automate smoke tests. 70-80% of the tests involve message sending and reading from message queue (JMS) and the necessary message content string manipulations (parse, find, replace,etc.) only 20-30 % involve UI (i.e. testing cases when wrong message must be fixed manual… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2010 at 9:30pm —

Ainars Galvans

Why learning from mistakes is (sometimes) so hard

If you analyze your mistake and understand how to avoid the same mistake in future, it is not always enough. Some mistakes are part of our habits. It requires practice (and wasted time) to learn to avoid them. Sometimes we don’t want to waste the time, especially when impact of the mistake is trivial.

I remind it whenever I see developers making the same mistakes over and over again. Especially mistakes that is trivial for me to catch in form of a bug. We are all humans.

The same miContinue

Posted on February 26, 2010 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Ainars Galvans

When someone doesn't make sense, maybe you don’t know details

When I read anything: weather it’s my next task description (i.e. written by PM who knows little about testing) or blog (by a person who probably know less than me about testing) and it does not make sense, seems stupid or wrong … I try to remember that this is my first reaction. Even if PM is amateur at testing they know ab… Continue

Posted on February 22, 2010 at 7:30am —

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At 12:47pm 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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