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Spring 2008 Survey still open: your favourite open source testing tools

The Spring 2008 Open Source Testing survey is open for 2 more weeks. Please follow the link below and tell us which are your top ten open source testing tools. Or if you can only think of two or three, then that's fine too. We would like to know which are the most popular tools among our website's users in order that we can deliver appropriate content and services. Results of the survey will be published on Open Source Testing next month.

csUnit 2.4 has been released

csUnit brings the power of unit testing to the .NET framework. This release contains new features and bug fixes. Major new features: - Search function in test hiearchy - Support for NUnit without recompilation subject to the following limitations - Supported for NUnit 2.4.7 (.NET 2.0 version) - Supported attributes - TestFixtureAttribute - TestAttribute - SetUpAttribute - TearDownAttribute

Process VS People oriented test management

people issues
Once upon a time I cared about tester certification. I’m tired to be. There is but one lesson I learned - just as scripted and exploratory testing are two extremes of all the possible testing approach, there process-oriented and people(skill)-oriented test management styles. And it does matter which one your manager is… I don’t like to work with process-oriented managers – this is something to remember when new opportunities will appear either within my own organization or outside.

Tackling Quality At Board Level - Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses

It seems to be a fact of organisational life that the further up the chain of command you climb, the more removed from reality you become.

For example, the chairman of Acme Supermarkets Plc might genuinely believe that their stores offer a friendly, enthusiastic and efficient service.

And the director of the IT department in Acme Supermarkets Plc might genuinely believe that the systems they create and support are reliable and of a generally high quality.