Google has just announced the location for their next GTAC (Google Test Automation Conference). They will hold it in their offices in Zürich on October 21st and 22nd ! Looks like it will be all around “testing for the web”. Quite a popular topic these days. They will have a call for papers sometime in [...]
I’m a big fan of Joel Spolsky who runs an excellent blog on software development and management. He also run a very interesting collaborative website where you can get all your programming question answered by developers and testers across the world. I find stackoverflow.com very simple to use with a growing base of great people [...]
According to this article, it looks like testing is overrated !! Code review might be the way to go ! Most studies have found that inspections are cheaper than testing. A Study at the Software Engineering Laboratory found that code reading detected about 80 percent more faults per hour than testing (Basili and Selby 1987). [...]
Software quality metrics must be part of the top 5 discussed subjects if you’ve been working in a Software engineering team. Discussion are usually endless as there is no silver bullet. I was reading this article today which summarizes the typical issues when deciding which metrics to track. Should we track: Number of tests? Pass [...]
It looks like cloud computing is going to be very hot in 2009. After Amazon, Microsoft and Google, IBM is planning to make its push in the cloud computing space. This is definitely a good news for everyone looking to use these type of service. As mentioned in one of my previous post, this is [...]
I regularly read a number of online magazines. As our products have a big performance requirement, I’m particularly close to performance testing and I try to keep up to date with new techniques and tools. Software Test & Performance magazine fit perfectly in the performance area as well as in more general testing topics. This [...]
–> This is the first post of a series I’m planning to write about Software Testers motivation and how to best manage it. I’m a strong believer that people are everything and that they should be your priority #1. I might state the obvious but my various professional experiences in various organizations told me that [...]
As all my testing teams are geographically distributed, I am obviously always trying to maximize the effectiveness of our test hardware infrastructure while looking very closely at costs (especially in this tough economic environment). I’m particularly trying to reach optimum flexibility and scalability for our environment. All the products I’m responsible for are developed and [...]
