
Having spent the last year trying to gain promotion to a more senior level, I've often thought there were two ways to achieve this. The first being only do what's ask of you and sooner or later your company will want you to take on more responsibility. Hence promote you to more senior level...

Often software testing is discussed from different technical aspects, but it is quite important to discuss psychology and economics of software testing, as software testing is quite integral part of software development life cycle, so it is quite important to adopt the appropriate frame of mind...

In a previous post I've blogged about switching from waterfall to agile and how this impacts us testers. It's true, the change can be difficult for some of us. However, fear not, somethings never change regardless of the development approach...

Having spent the last two days analysing user story requirements to write test conditions, has confirmed what I've known for years: Analysing is the most crucial stage of the testing process. After all, we're not called Test Analysts for nothing...

Remember what Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men? “You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the kind of thing you don’t want a customer saying about your product. “Sure, i...

I'm taking things week by week at the moment with STC. No firm decisions made about anything, but thought it would be worth mentioning some of the things or ideas I am (or plan to be working on): A directory - for peopled, 'consultants', companies, tools/software providers to get listed...

I have posted it as an event for STC members, below is a call for participation. Please contact me with any queries...

Why do we write test cases? To manage testing? Yes I used to believe it is easier to manage defined test cases rather people. I’ve developed a different approach. However you will have to wait for my next blog to read about it. ...

If you’ve ever spent time discussing electromagnetic (EM) fields as an undergrad, you may not have thought of EM as a simple topic… the math looked impressive and the concepts were new. But unless you specialized in wireless, the discussion of fields most of us saw was pretty cursory. It...

Only 176 shopping days until Christmas. And, before you know it, you’ll be testing 40 GbE or 100 GbE solutions. These things tend to creep up on you. [http://www.allcapecod.com/shoptillchristmas.cfm] You may not be the type to think about Christmas shopping in July. I know I’m not. Bu...

Okay, it's been a while since I last blogged, so what have I been up to? Firstly, managing an increasingly mobile 1-year old daughter. Secondly, running for the County Council here in Gloucestershire - didn't get in, but still garnered 1211 votes in my first ever election, so that can't be bad...

Hi all, I am facing a problem in tree control in an application. Earlier version of the application was having only one item under the tree control, which QTP was easily recognizing. Now the new design allows many items under the tree...

Just a quick thank you for those who have signed up as paid members. Do keep them coming please. Matthew Heusser has been kind enough to buy an extra membership package to be given to someone as a scholarship. More details coming soon.

It seems to me that word feedback was adopted by software development field so quickly that it became a buzzwords with the typical issue of using it loosely or carelessly. Am I wrong? Analyzing cases where the word was used turned out to be so exciting that I want to share my observations...








