Books
Beautiful Testing
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Mon, 20/07/2009 - 17:15. booksO’Reilly has announced the book, Beautiful Testing. I’m one of the contributing authors.
I was asked if I would write about my experiences and thoughts on medical software. I have several different project experiences I could have written about. I chose to write about one of the most intense work experiences I’ve had throughout my career.
My chapter is told in the format of a story. It’s based on a previous project experience that was intensified this past year when a personal situation intertwined with my work in unexpected ways.
I was asked if I would write about my experiences and thoughts on medical software. I have several different project experiences I could have written about. I chose to write about one of the most intense work experiences I’ve had throughout my career.
My chapter is told in the format of a story. It’s based on a previous project experience that was intensified this past year when a personal situation intertwined with my work in unexpected ways.
CAST 2009 Early Bird Rates Extended until May 1
Submitted by sbarber on Thu, 16/04/2009 - 06:42. books | context-driven testing | events | functional testing | general software testing | industry recognition | metaphors | non-functional testing | other online resources | people issues | perspectives | project management | test analysis | test management | usability testing
The 4th Annual Conference of the Association of Software Testing (CAST) 2009
Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 13-16, 2009
Serving Our Stakeholders
Opening Keynote by: Dr. Jonathan Koomey
Closing Keynote by: Robert Sabourin & Tim Coulter
Invited Speakers: Mike Dwyer and Kevin Brennan
CAST 2009 Early Bird Rates Extended until May 1
Submitted by sbarber on Thu, 16/04/2009 - 06:36. books | context-driven testing | events | functional testing | general software testing | industry recognition | metaphors | non-functional testing | other online resources | people issues | perspectives | project management | test analysis | test management | usability testing
The 4th Annual Conference of the Association of Software Testing (CAST) 2009
Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 13-16, 2009
Serving Our Stakeholders
Opening Keynote by: Dr. Jonathan Koomey
Closing Keynote by: Robert Sabourin & Tim Coulter
Invited Speakers: Mike Dwyer and Kevin Brennan
When information degrades to data
Submitted by Erik Petersen on Tue, 28/10/2008 - 02:40. books | ethics | people issues | perspectivesLawrence Winkler has two libraries. One is a traditional one, a library of information with new books and some more than 100 years old. The other library is now just a library of data, which was 3 books he had paid $100 for. What happened? Technological upgrades have degraded his books into unintelligible digital goobledegook. Now he is trying to highlight the dangers of storing information only in a digital form. In May, he had the 69th comment on a post about ebooks and copyright. In October, he had the 10th comment on a post about Amazon pushing their e-book device.
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.
Guerilla Approach
Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Thu, 04/10/2007 - 16:39. architecture | books | design & development | non-functional testing | performance testingMark Friedman reviewed Neil J. Gunther's new book "Guerilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services"
in MeasureIT (free registration may be needed - I hate registrations, but this one is worth efforts if you care about performance: it is a very good newsletter).
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
Submitted by sbarber on Thu, 30/08/2007 - 21:01. books | non-functional testing | other online resources | performance testing- We released the final version of our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. This guide provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you're new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios. The main purpose of the guide is to be a relatively stable backdrop to capture, consolidate and share a methodology for performance testing. Even though the topics addressed apply to other types of applications, we focused on explaining from a Web application perspective to maintain consistency and to be relevant to the majority of our anticipated readers.
- Download the guide
- Read the guide online
- Stay tuned for a link to purchase the print version due to be available in early Oct.
Alter Ego
Submitted by Mike Kelly on Mon, 06/08/2007 - 14:51. booksAlter Ego written by Dave Christiansen has just been published. I was one of the reviewers for the book and I think it's an excellent read. It has (almost) nothing to do with testing, but it's a great read for geeks who like fiction with a technology twist. And it is twisted!
Read it. You won't regret it. (You can even preview the first six pages online...)
Read it. You won't regret it. (You can even preview the first six pages online...)