Testing is Overrated
Submitted by jonathankohl on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 00:15.I stumbled across a presentation by Luke Francl called: Testing is Overrated. He could have called it: "programmer testing is overrated" but that doesn't have as much zing to it. His slides display a refreshing reminder to look for balance...
Survivor’s lessons in test management
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 11:54. general software testing | people issues | test managementNo I don’t mean TV show about people living weeks on a beach. I somehow mean show on a discovery channel. I want to tell you what I learned from a project. It was supposed for 3-4 experienced testers, but I did it all by myself. I had to sacrifice all my beliefs of test management to do so. That’s why I admit I no more understand how to manage testing (well).
Re-released Microsoft Compatibility Testing Virtual PC Images
Submitted by Evil Tester - Alan Richardson's blog on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 05:31. The Microsoft compatibility Virtual PC images have had a re-release. These time out on April 2009 (even when they time out you still get a grace 1 hour usage as I found out this morning).Windows XP SP3 with IE6Windows XP SP2 with IE7Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2Vista Image with IE7 At no [...]
New tool added - Sonar
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 01:00.Sonar is an open source quality management platform for Java, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure source code quality, from the project portfolio to the class method.
Sonar leverages existing best of breed tools like Checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs, Clover, Cobertura and transparently orchestrate all those tools.
How not to behave as a test contractor
Submitted by Evil Tester - Alan Richardson's blog on Mon, 05/01/2009 - 23:00. Sometime back, Linda Wilkinson had a good post on Test Contractor behaviour I shall add a few more 'things not to do' to the list based on some recent (and slightly less recent) experiences with contract testing staff.A few things to bear in mind before we start. When you contract as a tester you [...]
Software testing in a virtual environment
Submitted by Mike Kelly on Mon, 05/01/2009 - 22:12.A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.What is the likelihood of capturing accurate load testing results in a virtual test environment? We use LoadRunner/PerformanceCenter for performance testing. Our company is in the process of making use of virtualization. It seems this may be ideal [...]
I’m skeptic for the mind ability to analyze the mind
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Mon, 05/01/2009 - 13:28. metaphorsI’m not buccaneer-scholar though I recommend you to think if you are one and join the club. I recommend you to think what type of scholar you are, anyway. What follows is my own thinking of why I think I’m a skeptic-scholar and has always been. As a skeptic-scholar I welcome new ideas because I’m as skeptic about their value as I am about the established values… actually I don’t establish values at all.
A K-Shortest Path implementation in .Net
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Mon, 05/01/2009 - 08:05.The k-shortest paths computes the k first shortest path between two vertices in a directed graph. If you put this in the context of route planning, it gives you k alternative routes in case the shortest path is blocked by snow :) While the single source shortest path is well-known and implemented in many languages, there are not many implementations available for this problem, although it has been extensively studied. After looking around, I stumbled on a nice article comparing various approaches. The authors pointed out an algorithm from 1959 from Hoffman and Pavley that solved this problem (there are actually many others). This algorithm looked like a good fit: