A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.I am a test engineer working on Windows applications. I do manual testing. In the agile world, when things keep on changing every now and then, it’s difficult to get well-defined requirement specifications from developers, which disturbs test [...]

This one is good enough to blog twice. If you haven’t seen it, check out the post on Metamorphic relations as test oracles. Fantastic paper - if you’re into that sort of thing.

In the past I’ve worked with a number of programmers who’ve hidden their bugs. What I mean by that is that they know they are there, don’t fix them, don’t put them in a tracking tool of any kind, and won’t fix them unless a tester finds it and logs it. I’ve even worked with [...]

Through the power of Google alerts (I love Google alerts), I stumbled across this fantastic quote in an article titled Insatiable Software:Equipment manufacturers are constantly upgrading software that controls those onboard computers to, uh, ‘enhance” their performance. (Those “enhancements” might also repair glitches and bugs, overlooked during design and testing, that have popped up in [...]

In addition to my blog here, I’ve recently started doing some contributing to the Software Quality Insights blog on IT Knowledge Exchange. The focus of my content on Software Quality Insights will be commentary on news and events related to software testing. I’ve added an RSS feed on the right to track my latest posts.

A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers .I am a beginner software tester. I want to learn HP’s Quick Test Professional (QTP) better and make my own test scripts, but I’m unable to find good material to teach me from scratch. Can you please [...]

We’ve posted the 2009 schedule for the Indianapolis Workshops on Software Testing. We’re looking for people willing to share experience reports and people who just have a general interest in the various topics and would like to attend and ask questions. Here’s a summary of the lineup: February 26, 2009: Presenting test resultsMarch 27, 2009: [...]

A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.What is the likelihood of capturing accurate load testing results in a virtual test environment? We use LoadRunner/PerformanceCenter for performance testing. Our company is in the process of making use of virtualization. It seems this may be ideal [...]