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good-bye summer

This was very busy summer.... I was very busy at work (I learned a lot and made first expierience in SRS update process ) and very busy at home (my little garden at the airfield) and I managed to fly twice to Latvia (my little sis got married)!
At the end I had no time for software testing club. now I want to change it!

also I am looking forward to EuroSTAR. no, I do not have ticket, but I draw and s… Continue

Added by Kristine on September 6, 2010 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Career Change?

Almost.

My last foray into the land of unemployment got me to thinking: "Is this really what I want to do?" So I decided that maybe it was time to return to the world of teaching and instructional development. Those of you that know me know that I'm a total attention whore - I aboslutely love speaking in front of a riveted audience. Sadly, it's been over 20 years since I "officially" worked in the instructional design field. Oh I have been teaching, speaking at conferences, and

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Added by Dave Whalen on August 27, 2010 at 3:24pm — 3 Comments

Things to consider for a good test automation

1. Keep the linear dependencies.

This is not only for test framework but also development code as well. Code changes are inevitable, linear dependencies help minimize the side effect of code
changes. Loop dependencies cause development hell. Here is a good
lecture about why loop dependencies lead slow down the project. Link

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Added by Jae jin on August 26, 2010 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

What’s a defect worth?

Introduction:

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Added by Robert Healy on August 25, 2010 at 7:05am — No Comments

What Would You Say You Do Here?

I once had a development manager approach me and advise me that he had just hired a developer that he had known for years. He bragged that in all the years he has worked with this developer, the developer had only created five bugs. I maintained my composure and tried had not to burst out into hysterical laughter. This developer had obviously not met me.

I am a Software Entomologist - bugs are my life! I study them. I know where they live. I will find them. There is no such thi

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Added by Dave Whalen on August 24, 2010 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Testing notes

I was thinking about testing notes, in my last job I did manual testing, we had little documentation to work with (lead programmer didn't believe in anything in writing) so I kept a running log of the day's activities, I just wondered if other people kept testing notes and what they put in the notes. Since I have never done automated testing and it made me wonder what kind of testing notes are kept with automated testing?
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Added by FranMcGinnis on August 16, 2010 at 11:38pm — 2 Comments

Performance and Automation Testing Meetup

We will discuss major testing tools which are utilized by most of the companies.

NeoLoad:

• Brief overview of NeoLoad and feature list.
• Comparison vs. LoadRunner.
• Unique features: GWT support, XPapth for data extraction, shared containers.
• Licensing policy.

QTP:

• Automation: Procedure Oriented Programming VS Object Based Programming.

LoadRunner:

• New functionality of last version of LoadRunn

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Added by Nadiya on August 16, 2010 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Looking for first software testing job (part 2), critiques and feedback welcome!

Earlier I posted an entry that got a couple of awesome responses which were both very frank and helpful, and made me realize one main thing:

I'm spending a lot of time worried about my weaknesses and not exploring my strengths.

That's no good! What's that all about?!

So now I'm going to spend some time trying to turn around my focus a bit, and I'd appreciate any kind of honest, frank feedback you want to come out wi

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Added by Canadian Jill on July 19, 2010 at 7:12pm — 2 Comments

Looking For My First Software Testing Job

I've never had an official "software testing" job, although I've had things similar to them - enough to have about two years worth of professional software testing experience on proprietary web-based systems.

I've only recently started to take any kind of certification or formal training regarding Software Testing, and I'm glad I'm taking what I am. It's helping me split out my knowledge into modules of sorts, and has helped me understand the timing and priority of the various types of… Continue

Added by Canadian Jill on July 19, 2010 at 12:47am — 5 Comments

Brand new to the Club

Hey folks, I'm new to this site and wanted to post my first blog posting.

I'm a slightly-experienced software tester who is now pursuing her Certified Software Testing Professional designation through the IIST.org website. I was referred there because of a specific job I was looking to apply for, and once I started in on the course material I realized how helpful its structure could be to other places looking for software testing.

I'm excited by the prospect of learning all I'l… Continue

Added by Canadian Jill on July 18, 2010 at 11:52pm — 1 Comment

Blog Spam?

http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/profile/xyb

Lots of spam links in this new member's posts.

It's a shame to see this happen...

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Added by Joe Strazzere on July 16, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

SOA In a Day at India's Most Influential Business Technology Conference

Business Technology Summit 2010 – India's First, Largest and Single-most Inspirational Technology Show

Bangalore, July 12, 2010: Businesses are organizing themselves with Service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA moved from exploration and experimentation to pilots and deployment, with businesses understanding that SOA adoption betters data integration, enables legacy application integration, improves flexibility of application development, integrates dissimilar, departmental application… Continue

Added by Raju Arora on July 15, 2010 at 7:38am — No Comments

In the Eyes of a Web Tester: Difference Between IE7 and Firefox Browsers

Is web testing your occupation? Do you have a queer observation that you were able to see such differences? If so, then you can probably relate on this.

There are three major things that has been bothering me in terms of website interoperability testing between browsers. I’m talking about two browser giants:

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Added by jhenz on July 7, 2010 at 8:21am — 2 Comments

Curse of the 24-7 Tester

Your company decides that you are now in charge of your testing department and you receive a large pay raise. Except they also note that testing is falling behind, and you have one month to fully test a couple thousand requirements. What do you do?

This is what I call the "Curse of the 24-7 Tester." Do not be alarmed though, it's not really a curse, and it actually helps you out in many ways. Including keeping your sanity.

Sanity

Be sure that this is run and passes

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Added by Sakamoto Kazuma on July 1, 2010 at 5:35pm — 6 Comments

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

Added by Ainars Galvans on July 1, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Well and Truly De-scoped

I have just spent about month working on the current release that we are doing. Now a large section of the release was always going to be in doubt because of a potential "management change" that was on the cards. Well the change happened and the mandatory change was scrapped by the new managers. Oh well we said isn't that bad as we have less… Continue

Added by TheTestDude on June 29, 2010 at 6:06pm — No Comments

Implementing a tester's playbook

Prompted by Simon Morley's blog post about showing your thinking, I thought I'd show my thinking on something one of his commenters mentioned - a testing playbook.

Let's set the scene:
I work (currently) in a scripted shop. Lots of procedural manual test scripts, wat… Continue

Added by Anna Baik on June 28, 2010 at 11:14pm — 12 Comments

New Kid

Saw an interesting blog post from someone in a new job unsure how to react to a developer's comments. I'm curious to see how other people respond to the situation he presents. There are three comments so far, all with quite different approaches.

Perhaps because I've recently accepted a new job offer myself, I found myself focusing on the "new job" aspect of his post, more than… Continue

Added by Anna Baik on June 27, 2010 at 1:22am — 3 Comments

Poject open source - Simplifies management of Selenium Remote Control.

Poject open source - BlueDuck SRC beta version is available.Simplifies
management of Selenium Remote Control. Install and manage the Selenium
server in just a few steps. Allows you to modify graphically selenium
server startup options
(For moment the documentation is only in Spanish.)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/blueducksrc/

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Added by Henry Tejera on June 16, 2010 at 2:06pm — No Comments

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…

It seems to me t… Continue

Added by Ainars Galvans on June 14, 2010 at 1:42pm — 6 Comments