If you’re into test automation, you should know that the Google Automation Test Conference is held in Zürich this year. They formally opened the call for attendance today. You can submit a form to have a chance to be a GTAC 2009 attendee here. I sure hope I’ll be one of the lucky one ! [...]
If you had some doubt about SCRUM and Agile development getting real in the software development world, here is an interesting chart showing the evolution of agile and SCRUM related job for the past 4 years. A picture is worth a thousand words and I guess this one clearly demonstrate a clear growing trend. We’re [...]
I’ve attended the first day of SOFTEC 2009 in Kuala Lumpur and I had a chance to listen for the first time to Lee Copeland. One of his presentation was about the 9 things the software testing community tends to forget. He looks at each of these ‘forgettings’, the negative effects of each, how recognizing [...]
The term technical debt was first introduced by Ward Cunningham and is a metaphor to describe the consequences of quick and dirty software architecture and development. It is not necessary a bad thing to fall into technical debt as long as you’re doing a good job at understanding how you’re going to pay it in [...]
While the Cloud platforms vendors (Amazon, IBM, Google, Rackspace etc.) are fighting to offer the cheapest and the most flexible environment for companies to use, we see some cloud testing services coming our way. After all James Whittaker did predict it, so it must be true While cloud computing for business is still in its [...]
It looks like the whole crowdsourced testing is really picking up steam ! While uTest covers pretty much everything you’d hope for, there are a number of players getting on some interesting niche. Usability testing for website is very often forgotten especially during audience ramp up. It’s usually difficult to find the right group of [...]
If you’ve done quite a bit of hiring, you might have your favorite interview scheme, questions and dynamics which help you assess the skills of the testers in front you. I’ve done a lot of hiring the past 3 years for all position within my organization and I was thinking about the one question always [...]
