Archive for '1-Testing'

HEUG – Alliance Down Under 2011

HEUG – Alliance Down Under 2011

Hi all. Just a quick note to share my presentation at HEUG – Alliance Down Under 2011. My various other presentations are also available here: My Presentations University of Auckland recently upgraded to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions [...]

The Future of Software Testing

The Future of Software Testing

A while back I had written a blog post about my thoughts on Future of Testing. Not just that I have been quite vocal with my thoughts at every given opportunity, especially here. My take on [...]

‘Current Directory’ removed from $LOAD_PATH in Ruby 1.9.2

‘Current Directory’ removed from $LOAD_PATH in Ruby 1.9.2

I was practicing sample code in Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You by Brian Marick and I came across an issue for which it took me a while to find a workaround. I [...]

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Background: Earlier this month a hacking group released a list of almost 62,000 email accounts and their passwords. This list was made available publicly to one and all. The original list is not available any more. [...]

Steve Alexander on Usability, Testing and more

Steve Alexander on Usability, Testing and more

Couple of weeks ago we interviewed Steve Alexander from Purple Shirt for TWiST podcast. TWiST is a weekly podcast on software testing. This week Steve talks about usability, how it is gaining importance now in whether [...]

ANZTB Test Conference 2011

ANZTB Test Conference 2011

The conference this year was in Auckland and the theme was ‘Testing Beyond Today’. There were some great presenters from both overseas and locally. Like – Lee Copeland, Isabel Evans, Carol Cornelius and Thomas McCoy to [...]

TWiST – This Week in Software Testing Podcasts

TWiST – This Week in Software Testing Podcasts

TWiST is a series of podcasts from Software Test Professionals where Matt Heusser interviews leaders in software testing from different parts of the world. Through these podcast the interviewees share their experiences, achievements, tools and latest [...]

Where the Testing Industry will be in 10 Years Time

Where the Testing Industry will be in 10 Years Time

Last month – November 2010, I attended Test Managers Forum organised by Assurity where I also did a presentation related to (of course) software testing. Anyways we’re not talking about me here There were some great [...]

Presentation at ANZTB Test 2010 Conference

Presentation at ANZTB Test 2010 Conference

  Last year I blogged about ANZTB’s (Australia & New Zealand Testing Board) Test conference and mentioned that if things work out well I might be doing a presentation there – fortunately they did! Yay – [...]