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By David W. Johnson "DJ"SearchSoftwareQuality.comWith the advent of mature test automation tools, both commercial and open source, there is a growing perception that traditional “testers” are no ...

One of the key reasons for doing automated testing is to ensure that time is not spent on doing repetitive tasks which can be completed by tools without human intervention. Automation could be one of ...

There are some basic rules of thumb which will serve you well in testing any application that deals with lists of data (and which applications don't?).1.1; few; many"2."don't make any assumptions"...

IntroductionThis is the introductory article to a series of occasional articles related to testing, from the perspective of a developer. These articles are intended to pass on some simple techniques...

    有一次，当开发人员完成当前Sprint任务的代码之后，测试人员与开发人员、产品经理一起来浏览产品、从头到尾走一边，产品经理发现了问题，认为需要对功能进行比较大的修改。这时开发人员估计需要两天时...

[size=1.2em]I think it was Jon Bach's work on open book testing that really drove the analogy of every test being a question home for me. Each test you execute is really just a question you're asking ...

This tip comes from Ben Kelly. We all need to test on Internet Explorer, but we've been spoiled with tools like Firebug in other browsers. Ben has a tip to get Firebug to work in Internet Explorer:I...

I am currently involved in an interesting integration testing project where end-point is media delivery on play station 3(PS3). I have never played PS3 and haven't tested anything on any other device ...

Few days back I wrote on the subject of creativity and how new ideas can be generated in software testing. Today I will share how these ideas can be preserved and turned into something tangible and us...

This is a very interesting real life example of a classic concurrency issue and very neatly illustrates the abstract process of fault finding a race condition. What makes it particularly interesting i...

Automation is an important aspect of software testing. Testers use different tools to automate their testing activities.  The choice of tool would depend upon the type of application under t...

Bugs, Errors, Defects, Faults, Failures – All are indicators of customer dissatisfaction, especially when found in the production environment. With the increasing complexity of the software being dev...

Agile and Scrum are not alien to us anymore. Industry has embraced Scrum and Agile because of the value they provide. People have used Scrum in many ways and have modified it to suite their unique nee...

12 Best Cross Browser Testing Tools to Ease Your Browser Compatibility Testing EffortsCross Browser Testing can be the biggest pain for Software testers. But thanks to all cross browser testing tool...

User story is one of the primary development artifact for the XP project teams. A user story contains just enough information so that development team can reasonably give estimate about completing, te...

Automation is the buzzword in the entire QA spectrum. Firms in India and abroad have got a new outlook on how the QA efforts can be saved by automation. Some companies have begun to mature in this fie...

Recently I finished a book on creativity called - Sticky Wisdom. It's a nice book and gives practical advices on how creativity can be fostered in our day to day life and especially at work. I found i...

I am defect. For some people I am a mild inconvenience and for some I am their worst nightmare, probably a life threatening nightmare. For many years, people like you have treated me as a hunting targ...

We have seen many discussions on why people came into software testing and why they still love to work as a tester. People have interesting reasons, for some people its creativity, for some people its...

This article talks about the following areas in Performance testing.Determine the type of Performance tests to be conductedDetermine the transaction mixMethodology for Tool selectionConsiderations whi...