Archive for '1-Testing'

Different Flavours of Waterfall and Agile Development

Here’s a quick and simple overview of the main differences between Waterfall Development, Iterative Waterfall Development, Scrum/Agile Development and Lean by Agile101.net Waterfall Development ‘Waterfall Development’ is another name for the more traditional approach to software [...]

Software Checker or Tester

Michael Bolton is one of the well respected and experienced software testing guru around. And he has posted this series of Testing vs Checking articles on his blog. In one of the introductory posts he has [...]

Things Software Testers Do

Here are couple of exampes of what the testers at my workplace like to do: 1 - This one is to remind developers to not spread bugs: 2 - This image is from the testing area [...]

What is Your Tester’s Attitude?

I have seen some really blunt testers in my IT career. Blunt as in, if they have a problem they’ll make sure they let people know of it and that too in a most undiplomatic way. [...]

Usability Testing

Yesterday we got an excellent overview from one of our colleagues on Usability. Image Source   He is an Usability Expert – i.e. he doesn’t just organises and manages Usability Testing, but also does a whole [...]

A Tester in Need

I have been very fortunate to always have had testers with correct software testing skills, either as colleagues or in my team. Image Source Matthew in his post on software testing – How do we see [...]

ANZTB Test 2010 Conference – Melbourne

  After a successful conference earlier this year, Australian and New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB) will be hosting their next ANZTB Test 2010 Conference again next year from 1 – 3 March 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. [...]

Test Automation and ROI

Measuring Test Automation ROI – in his post I.M.Testy has briefly touched on some aspects of test automation.   Image Source   I quite agree with his post and there are certain things that I would [...]

Behaviour-Driven Development

I am yet to work on a project where BDD – Behaviour-Driven Development framework is used. What is BDD? Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is an evolution in the thinking behind TestDrivenDevelopment and AcceptanceTestDrivenPlanning. … It presents a [...]

Compromising User Acceptance Testing

Image source In his blog post Your user acceptance testing is fixed – Is that a problem? – Shrini has quite correctly detailed the challenges of getting UAT done from the business and various ways how [...]