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Defining Exploratory Testing

A couple of years ago, several of us worked on definitions of exploratory testing at the Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Techniques.  We didn’t reach unanimous agreement at that meeting. However, later discussions based on the meeting’s notes yielded this definition:“Exploratory software testing is a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and [...]

databene benerator 0.5.4 released

New improvements to the leading open source test data generator: Improved convenience by the new descriptor, configurable CSV separators, better distribution support and a new "finance" domain with generators and validators for bank account numbers with IBANs. The descriptor syntax and semantics have been clarified and unified. XML Schema support has been extended.

Kineo Open Source acquires Open Source Testing

Open Source Testing was last week acquired by Kineo Open Source, an open source services company that I have set up with the help of the kind chaps at Kineo. Initially, Kineo Open Source is offering popular open source solutions for website development, customer relationship management and learning including SugarCRM, Moodle and Joomla! However in the coming months we'll also be widening our support offering to include popular open source testing tools. Take a look at the existing services around the core products we're currently supporting and you'll get a flavour of what to expect.

Chapter 1. What's the point of Test-Driven Development?

We are now publishing chapters of our book, Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests in a separate section of the site. We will publish news about new content in the blog but will not include the entire contents of each chapter as blog posts.

We have updated Chapter 1, What's the Point of Test-Driven Development? in response to feedback from blog comments and the discussion group and improved some of the diagrams. More comments are always welcome.