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SourceSafe Binding Remover

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:09:35 -0400

For those that are asking, I will post the SourceSafe Binding Remover code in the next couple days.

Slogans! Slogans! Seriously, we don’t need no stinkin’ slogans.

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:10:32 -0400

I always thought the slogans would prove the most controversial part of EvilTester.com - more controversial than the cartoons, and more controversial than the name Eeeevil Tester. (You do have to say it like that, otherwise you take it far too seriously).So after sending these slogans through to you with no explanation, I now present [...]

New blog at http://blog.sureshnageswaran.com/

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:38:24 -0400

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!

What’s all this Evil stuff? Video Version

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:35:55 -0400

Just in case anyone thought that EvilTester.com was getting too serious I thought I better provide a little background to the “Why Evil?” question. The first answer seemed flippant, but all too appropriate… “Because Evil leads to comedy gold.” Allow me to explain.Evil doesn’t just mean “take over the world”Nor does a one time [...]

Baltic/Nordic region events

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:49:39 -0400

If 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.

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

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:35:50 -0400

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.

Process VS People oriented test management

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:16:50 -0400

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.

CoTestive - a comprehensive testing tool

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:26 -0400

CoTestive is a new testing framework. At the time of this posting, it is in its very early stages; about 90% NUnit compatible. It's goals are to be:1. NUnit & MbUnit compliant2. FIT compliant3. ExtensibleIn essence, it is slated to be comprehensive - a single testing framework that is developer-friendly, customer friendly, and extensible to suit the changing n

Pex at Agile 2008

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:09 -0400

We'll be at Agile 2008 presenting "Exploratory Test Driven Development: Red,Yellow, Green, Refactor".

This posting is provided "AS IS"

Conscientious Uncertification

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:30:09 -0400

I’m thinking of having badges made which say “Conscientiously Uncertified.” It’s for those of us who want to resist the dumbing down of our craft by cynical consultants promoting bogus tester certification programs.For me, when I see that someone is certified as CSTE, ISEB, ISTQB, or CSTQE, I immediately think “there goes someone who was [...]

I don’t use math in performance testing, do I ?

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:26:55 -0400

I’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 ?!

Executable Acceptance Tests Could Drive Development Rather Than UI Mock-ups

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:34:26 -0400

Gojko Adzic is a jolly nice chap who offers some jolly sensible advice about how we can use acceptance tests to act as executable specifications - described entirely in business terms - to drive the design and implementation of our software.

He's dead right, of course. So right, in fact, that maybe he doesn't know how right he is. I would

Entertaining Company

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:07:13 -0400

Apparently there is a "mobile alcohol breath testing" company for events in the United Kingdom. It's name? Blow Me.

Don't let the Emperor catch you drinking!

ASP.NET Encourages Procedural UI Coding?

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:07:32 -0400

I mean, why don't we just go back to writing our applications in FORTRAN?

The concept of an object oriented framework for implementing web user interfaces seems to have eluded Microsoft yet again. As always, it falls just short of allowing us to write the kind of neat, OO code we'd like to and drags us back down into the depths of magic strings and magic numbers and all manner of procedural nastiness.

More on the CLR startup change

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:10:04 -0400

Last week I mentioned that some of my tests for my Win32 Debug API class had suddenly started failing. It seems that I was right and the changes are due to some .Net fixes that have been rolled out recently....Posted by Len at 03:37 PM | Comments