Questioning Software

In recent times, organizations are increasing their market bases in many countries, thanks to the globalization of local markets. With growing markets accompanies the need for creation of robust checking services that can help organizations to handle off-site and remotely established projects efficiently. Organizations furthermore need economical test devices that can effectively handle test asset administration activities. “Today, enterprises handle divergent varieties of projects – bootstrapping, application outsourcing development, exclusive testing projects etc. Projects may follow different QA methodologies and there may not be common implementation of the same methodology across all projects. When divergent QA methodologies are employed in the enterprise, it becomes ... Read Full Story

It's easy to get caught up in enthusiasm for the 'silver bullet' of test automation, where the dream is that a single mouse click can initialize thorough unattended testing of an entire software application, bugs will be automatically reported, and easy-to-understand summary reports will be waiting in the manager's in-box in the morning. Although that may in fact be possible in some situations, it is not the way things generally play out. In manual testing, the test engineer exercises software functionality to determine if the software is behaving in an expected way. This means that the tester must be able to judge what the ... Read Full Story

Post from: US Government Grants - free online grant information blog Latest Developments on Test Tools Today test automation tools are in high-demand because of the large number of testing projects that are running in every software organization. New technological advancements have brought in advanced features in these tools. When many projects are running, each of them having their own testing priorities then using individual test resources is not advisable. It is better to have a single group working for all QA and QC activities in the organization. In this view it is advisable to implement a robust centralized test management tool that can ... Read Full Story

Here's some short blurbs of a few things I took away from CAST sessions. From Lee Copeland's keynote address: "It's nonsensical to talk about automated tests as if they were automated human testing. " Write or speak about something you're knowledgeable and passionate about. Combine things from multiple disciplines. From Harry Robinson's keynote address: Weinberg 's Second Law: If Builders Built Buildings The Way Programmers Write Programs, Then The First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization. From Esther Derby 's keynote: To successfully coach someone, they must want to be coached and want to be coached by you . From James Bach 's ... Read Full Story

Society has unwittingly fallen into a machine-centered orientation to life, one that emphasizes the needs of technology over those of people, thereby forcing people into a supporting role, one for which we are most unsuited. Worse, the machine-centered viewpoint compares people to machines and finds us wanting , incapable of precise, repetitive, accurate actions. Although this is a natural comparison, and one that pervades society, it is also a most inappropriate view of people. It emphasizes tasks and activities that we should not be performing and ignores our primary skills and attributes -- activities that are done poorly, if at all, by machines. When ... Read Full Story