Blogs
New blog at http://blog.sureshnageswaran.com/
Submitted by Suresh Nageswaran on Sun, 11/05/2008 - 12:38.This blog will remain my performance testing blog. In the meantime, I've created a new blog at http://blog.sureshnageswaran.com/
This is to cover newer topics like offshorability of testing, the service provider's view, building a Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) and general testing research I've been running over the years.
See you there!
This is to cover newer topics like offshorability of testing, the service provider's view, building a Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) and general testing research I've been running over the years.
See you there!
Baltic/Nordic region events
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Sat, 10/05/2008 - 11:49. eventsIf you live in a small country like me, you may or may not need to travel too far to get to testing conference. There is an annual Latvia test conference and I know numerous conferences in Sweden. Although I don’t like to go to conferences too much, I try to learn about them and their content as much as possible. Here I share what I know about my region conferences and hope to learn more from you.
Process VS People oriented test management
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 14:16. people issuesOnce 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.
I don’t use math in performance testing, do I ?
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Thu, 08/05/2008 - 14:26. performance testingI’ve seen testers recommending The Art of War or Weinberg books which are not about testing at all. I’ve also seen performance testers recommending knowledge of probability theory, statistics and modeling principles. I don’t apply this knowledge in performance testing myself – well at least not directly. I never think about things like distribution function, mean deviation, etc. Do you? Don’t I ?!
Identity crisis or delusions of grandeur?
Submitted by sbarber on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 16:24. general software testing | industry recognition | metaphors | other online resourcesIn this month's installment of "Peak Performance" I discuss the frequently erroneous and often grandeous titles software testers have on their business cards or in their e-mail SIGs. Identity crisis or delusions of grandeur?
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- Scott Barber
- President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
- Vice President & Executive Director, Association for Software Testing
- www.perftestplus.com
- www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org
- "If you can see it in your mind...
- you will find it in your life."
Qualities of Quality PMs
Submitted by Erik Petersen on Thu, 01/05/2008 - 12:34. books | people issues | project managementI’m enjoying being technoratified . I have more than 50 blogs as favorites. I noticed a note on one announcing a reissue of a project management book, with the opportunity to win a copy. The book is “Making things happen”, by Scott Berkun. You had to post on the qualities of a quality project manager. I was one of 50 posters while the competition ran, and was lucky enough to win one of the 10 books. I’ll reserve my opinion on the book till I read it, but it will have to be excellent to outdo Johanna Rothman’s Manage It which won a 2008 Jolt award. If you follow the link you'll find a podcast from Johanna to listen to, then search further and you'll also find a video interview as well.
The PM qualities list makes interesting reading, and there is even a synthesized audio track of the original blog post (but sadly not the comments). You can also read an Q&A interview with Scott on PM from the book’s original release.
23 rooms
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Tue, 29/04/2008 - 10:42.This has been a hard week. My mom became critically ill and remains in ICU. This might seem a strange time to blog …
Stability test tool: batch file
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Mon, 28/04/2008 - 08:31. reliability testingThis morning I realized that last Friday I did something that seems very simple to me, but may not be for young people not used to DOC (or at least windows95). I run a bat file test.bat containing following lines:
:loop
copy test\*.* import\*.*
sleep 600
goto loop
The same documents get copied into import directory each 10 minutes (600 seconds=10minutes). I was testing server who is able to pick up files incoming into this folder. It is quite typical to have such services to automatically process faxed documents and email attachments. But you could replace copy command with your process execution call or anything.
:loop
copy test\*.* import\*.*
sleep 600
goto loop
The same documents get copied into import directory each 10 minutes (600 seconds=10minutes). I was testing server who is able to pick up files incoming into this folder. It is quite typical to have such services to automatically process faxed documents and email attachments. But you could replace copy command with your process execution call or anything.
