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This group is a professional forum for bringing together Software Testing and Software QA professionals from China. Keep posts in context of 'the software testing profession in China'. Non-Chinese members welcome. Posts in English please
December 15, 2009
This group is a professional forum for bringing together Software Testing and Software QA professionals from China. Keep posts in context of 'the software testing profession in China'. Non-Chinese members welcome. Posts in English please
November 6, 2009
I have to agree that when a CV comes over my desk with every technology, tool and methodology on it rarely goes any further. If perhaps I do interview the candidate and ask "So of these, which is the strength area for you"? I don't expect them to sa…
September 23, 2009
Sadly I can't make it this time as I'm at client meetings that day. Have fun!
September 16, 2009
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This group is a professional forum for bringing together Software Testing and Software QA professionals from China. Keep posts in context of 'the software testing profession in China'. Non-Chinese members welcome. Posts in English please
September 13, 2009
In my experience putting together a plan like this is extremely hard to do initially and then very time consuming to maintain afterwards unless is used as a guide and not a prescriptive definition. There are going to be some standard industry skill…
September 6, 2009
I did once have a customer where every time I would sit with development to walk through bugs they would discount every single one that didn't blow the system up. It was incredible to see them obviously just "make up" some twisted reason why it was…
September 5, 2009
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Hi All, I'm writing a book called "Web Test Automation with Selenium & Ruby" and I'm looking for someone to collaborate with me on a translation into Mandarin. My wife is kindly pitching in (she's from Shanghai) but what I need is help with transla…
September 5, 2009

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About Me:
I'm the Head of Testing Practice at NMQA Ltd. (www.nmqa.com) a software testing consultancy based in London.

I specialise in review of the testing process, change management of the testing function, enablement of teams through training and 121 mentoring.

In addition I'm also on site at clients testing, mostly agile testing using the Behaviour Driven Testing (BDT) approache combined with the Selenium-Ruby web test automation framework I designed.
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An Introduction to Web Test Automation with Selenium and Ruby

An Introduction to Web Test Automation with Selenium and Ruby

As readers of this blog and other random ramblings of mine across the internet will know - for more than 8 months or so I’ve been working a lot with Selenium and Ruby. It’s been a joy and a pain at the same time. Beguiled by how easy the Selenium tools were to use I got started only to discover that they weren’t as accessible as they at first appeared. A definite case of ‘easy when you know how’… Continue

Posted on September 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

Mark Crowther

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and the Testing Profession

I posted earlier in the year about BDD. If you’ve not encountered BDD have a wander over to http://behaviour-driven.org/ and take a quick read or hit YouTube and watch Dave Astels (http://techblog.daveastels.com/) Google TechTalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOFfHzrIDPk. BDD isn’t some kind of Flavour of the Week new thing, it’s been around a good fe… Continue

Posted on August 9, 2009 at 3:53pm — 2 Comments

Mark Crowther

Project feedback, pondering while driving to work

Driving on my way to work yesterday I started thinking about ‘feedback’ on projects and how often we’ll give feedback to a Project Manager on a traditional project. My experience has been that the feedback is generally given once per week, at the Monday morning Project Management meeting.

I’d almost forgotten that this had been the way I used to provide feedback on how testing was going. Feedback once per week would see me having kittens now. I’m so used to the agile style of running a daily st… Continue

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Mark Crowther

Thoughts and reflections after SIGIST

I enjoyed SIGIST this time, last time I went I had the overwhelming urge to scream, something like "What are you people thinking!?" or maybe just ""STFU!" which may have ruined what little reputation I have as a thoughtful individual. Thankfully Michael Bolton was there this time so the bar was raised.

I was also seriously pleased to have a few beers with him and other folks last night and today just spend time absorbing what he had to say. James Lyndsay was there today too, I think he sneaked… Continue

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 12:36am — 2 Comments

Mark Crowther

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) - The future of testing.

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) - The future of testing.

My view is the BDD is the bridge between development and testing, representing the paradigm shift in thinking that's needed to ensure closer integration between the development and testing professions. BDD provides a logical interlink between what I define as 'Test Requirements', which are drawn from functional requirements, and Test Cases executed to prove these Test Requirements have been achieved.

The BDD approach allows the… Continue

Posted on May 13, 2009 at 12:01pm — 1 Comment

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At 3:19pm on May 21, 2009, Jamie Gagnon said…
Hi Mark

Sadly my thread was removed. I have to be honest I understand why. but I have requested it be added as an event and maybe then people can sponsor there.

I have not heard yet but I hope it can be

Thank you for your donation though. it was very much appreciated.
At 1:27am on March 25, 2009, Kelly said…
Hi Mark,
I am working for Guandong Software Science Park in China and they have a lot of software they are looking to distribute. Being you're in testing, do you have any connections to software download sites? Obvious choices in the U.S. are download.com for example. Just wondering if there are some China sites I could introduce them to.

Thanks,

Kelly
At 7:57am on March 19, 2009, Jamie Gagnon said…
Thanks for the links Mark

I will give this a read through. If I have any questions I will come back to you
At 5:50am on March 11, 2009, JiFang said…
I like this club! Glad to meet you here!
At 2:58pm on February 14, 2009, Waleed said…
Hello Friend.
Thanks for sharing this site.Glad to see you here. :)
At 2:43am on February 10, 2009, Alex Almeda said…
Hi Mark,

I see that you are again active in our e-group.

There is a wealth of knowledge from the Context Driven school of testing and the Association of Software Testing. The Bug Taxonomy is just a beginning to risk-based testing among others that they freely distribute online

Check out the other articles on QAGuild.com too. We encourage everyone to express their knowledge by writing them.


Cheers,
Alex
At 4:48am on February 3, 2009, Yan said…
hi, Mark, thanks for your feedback, I will try to make my work better and better. be glad to know you :)
I work in shanghai, if you want to know more about testing infomation . you can leave me comment or send me mail also: xenia20030616@yahoo.com
At 2:11pm on February 2, 2009, rose said…
Hi, Mark, nice to meet you.
At 11:04am on November 24, 2008, Tony Simms said…

Mark
This is it, the last time I smiled, I am the one on the right (as always)
At 4:06pm on October 10, 2008, LiuSteven said…
Hi, Thanks for your invite~ I'm working for OpenTV now. Be willing to take with you~ Nice to meet you...
 
 

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