Machine Learning For Testers – Part 1
Are you starting to see Machine Learning and AI more and more as a necessary or useful skills in job requirements and bewildered by it? Want to know more but don’t know where to start? There is probably no area of our lives these days...
SEBTE: A Simple Effective Experience – Based Test Estimation – Part 2
What is Charter Driven Session-Based Exploratory Testing? Exploratory Testing There have been a few attempts to define exploratory testing. To begin with, I suggest that all testing is exploratory and thus exploratory testing is just another word for testing. I started using a definition from...
Interview with Alan Page
Where is the testing profession heading to? What does it take to get the Devs to do testing? How do we measure the success of Modern Testing? Let’s ask Alan Page! It’s a pleasure meeting you once again (virtually this time), Alan. How have you...
Heuristics For Identifying Corner Cases For Testing
T. talks Testing. Summary Corners are interesting as they are subtle, invisible really. They could be complex with many things that intersect and therefore display a unique behaviour. They may not necessarily be symmetrical at ends, nor be similar to behaviour in the middle. As...
“Robinhood and WallstreetBets” are warning signs.
Did you hear about the battle over GameStop between Reddit-based stock traders and big hedge funds during January? You better know how the vulnerabilities in your app can hurt you and cost lives for some. This is about how the vulnerabilities and limitations of a...
Search Engine Optimization Testing
An Experience Report. The Lessons… Good software practices overlap and help different levels within the software projects. A good software practice is not to take users or the user’s perspectives for granted. Challenge yourself by actively listening to all project stakeholders, talking with developers, and...
Perils And Pitfalls Of A New Age Test Automation
What lies beneath the cool tools? Iryna Suprun shares her analysis of automation tools in the market that is bursting with buzzwords. I just spent some time googling. I was trying to find who and where created the first-ever automated test. No luck. The same...
SEBTE A Simple Effective Experience-Tased Test Estimation Part 1
The American Heritage Dictionary defines estimation to be: A tentative evaluation or rough calculation. A preliminary calculation of the cost of a project. A judgment based upon one’s impressions, opinion. As a software engineer, I have a professional track record that includes the ability to...
Excellence In Testing, Today More Than Ever
What is excellence? Most places will define excellence as outstanding, being extremely good, the quality of excelling at something, or being the best at what you do. All these are good definitions, but when I look at testing and specifically at excellence in testing, I...
Enlightening In Testing
Something about knowledge. What you cannot know E. W. Dijkstra expressed this principle of testing in 1969: Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs. Dijkstra was discussing testing with researchers focused on finding ways to prove that code was working. They were in...