This is a special thank you to everyone who has contributed to the testingReflections community... Thanks to all those visitors and thanks to all the content providers (who I hear receive plenty of good traffic in referrals from TR ;-)

January 2008 saw the largest number of unique visitors and page impressions for TR so far...

Unique visitors:        32,382 (19 robots)
Number of visits:       88,995*
Pages:                 264,866* 

*excluding robots

This has inspired me to spend more time working on TR (as some of you now affectionately call it)... this is going to take time and money... almost all my own at the moment...

If you would like to contribute, feel free to donate (see link in right column)... or if you are a corporation and want to expose your brand to all these TR users, get in touch via admin/at\testingReflections/dot\com.

Once again, many thanks...

-Antony

phpBugTracker is a lightweight PHP bug tracker. This version is a minor patch/bug fix release which should ease installation and slide easily into any existing installation.

RTH is a web-based testing framework. RTH handles requirement and test management, stores manual and automated test results and has a built in bugtracker. Version 1.6.3 features bug fixes and enhancements. Bug fixes: * View test results - problems displaying test results because of restrictions to 255 bytes solved * View test results - wrong formatting for tables solved * List of tests assigned to a test set - columns can be sorted now

NUnitAsp extends the popular NUnit testing framework to allow automated testing of ASP.NET web applications. The project owner has just announced that he is no longer maintaining or supporting the tool. Please follow the link below for the full rationale. The following is an excerpt from Jim's post: "If you would like to take over development of NUnitAsp, and you have name recognition in the community, I will be happy to hand it over to you.

Concordion 1.1.0 released today, with support for JUnit 4.4.

Concordion is an alternative to the Fit Framework, for writing acceptance tests.

What users are saying: "a lot more intuitive than Fit", "we've rewritten all our existing Fit tests in Concordion", "impressive", "one to keep your eye on"

As a software testing consultant and musician, I meet a lot of skilled testers who do amazing work. Through experience and a lot of trial and error, they have developed skills they can’t easily explain. Unfortunately, with software testing, there aren’t as many obvious avenues for skill development as there are for musicians. Many software testers don’t realize that there are learnable explorat

We've committed to iteration-less pull based software development starting on Monday for one of my teams. A number of factors led up to this decision, not to mention the vast amount of discussion I had with my project managers.

The factors:

• Story size was difficult to estimate and kept crossing iteration boundaries.
• The programmers really didn't see the value of estimating stuff they weren't familiar with and in our planning poker session gave out lots of ? and 100 cards.
• I am looking for a good departmental metric for the rest of the company to see how development is doing and Velocity is always too abstract.
• We were spending to much time researching the time it would take to fix a bug that we weren't going to work on for several weeks.
• There was invisible work being performed.
• We had a tool (Rally) that wasn't really being used as intended.
• The scheduling process seemed overly complicated.
• We didn't have a great way to express the result of adding "one more thing" to the release.
• We are just about to get a true single backlog per product line.

What we are ending up with: