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Mundane excellence in software, intensive care, and bombing missions
Submitted by Developer Testing on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 07:23.In this blog entry I talk about how simple changes can produce dramatically different results. Developer testing is one of the practices, one of those little things, that add up to excellence:
"… there is no secret; there is only the doing of all those little things, each one done correctly, time and again, until excellence in every detail becomes a firmly ingrained habit, an ordinary part of one’s everyday life."
SCALE 7x Issues Call for Papers
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 11:35.The 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 7x will be held on Feb 20-22, 2009 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. If you are working on an interesting open-source / Linux related project, or would like address the community, SCALE welcomes you to submit a presentation proposal.
Testlink 1.8.0 Beta 3 Released
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 13:19.In this version:
add EXT JS tree component, new custom field types, predefined javascript validation for certaing custom field types, better user manual, and more
Tsung 1.3.0 released
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 13:27.Tsung is a distributed load testing tool.
The 1.3.0 release adds three new plugins (LDAP, MySQL, WebDAV), a major dynamic variable enhancement, for/repeat loops in a scenario, and many other smaller improvements and bugfixes.
Is exploratory testing only for senior testers?
Submitted by Mike Kelly on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 16:34.A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers:It’s been my experience that only the senior testers I work with do exploratory testing well. Is experience a requirement for exploratory testing?Here is a clip from my answer: Experience isn’t a requirement for exploratory testing, but certainly,
Test-driven Enterprise Architecture
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 17:01.I have a secret.
And, like all my best secrets, I tell just about everyone I meet. Because the best secrets are the ones everyone knows about.
It's about Enterprise Architecture, you see. Even better than a secret that everyone knows, is a secret that everyone knows about Enterprise Architecture.
I'm coming at it from a reformed modeler's point of view.
And, like all my best secrets, I tell just about everyone I meet. Because the best secrets are the ones everyone knows about.
It's about Enterprise Architecture, you see. Even better than a secret that everyone knows, is a secret that everyone knows about Enterprise Architecture.
I'm coming at it from a reformed modeler's point of view.