Test automation
The short and the long of IT: two videotaped presentations
Submitted by Erik Petersen on Tue, 14/10/2008 - 11:40. context-driven testing | design & development | development methodology | functional testing | test automationSince the middle of the year, I’ve presented and facilitated about 12 hours of sessions at 2 traditional and 3 open space conferences, plus a Googleplex visit. Two presentations are now on video, both filmed on the other side of the world from my usual location of Melbourne, Australia.
A lightning talk (at the functional tools workshop held before Agile 08 in Toronto, Canada) called Shades of Green discusses how the “green” passing tests of functional automation may not be as green as they seem. Note the static pose to stay within camera range, compensated for by the wildly waving arm. And yes, the audience was not limited to a leg and a foot.
An order of magnitude longer at around 50 minutes, a Google Tech Talk (filmed at the San Francisco Googleplex) called 80:20 Rules! Building Software Smarter looks at formal and informal ways to get significant improvements in creating software, including various puzzles and questions for viewers. I had looked at some tech talks by other people I know, and they had been watched around 1000 times over a year or so. It looks like I may hit that mark only a few days after the video was posted which is great. I hope my talk inspires people to build their software smarter. Can I turn “shades of green” into a similar talk? Probably not!
Smart monkey
Submitted by Raymond Rivest on Mon, 23/10/2006 - 13:39. performance testing tools | test automationFor those of you who often test databases, here's an affordable tool that can help you preparing your test data or size up your database.
http://www.sqledit.com/dg/index.html
It does a pretty good job....
http://www.sqledit.com/dg/index.html
It does a pretty good job....
Google London Test Automation Conference Talks on Video
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Thu, 14/09/2006 - 10:33. events | test automationAs previously mentioned the talks from Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) are all now available on Google video
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) 2006
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Fri, 08/09/2006 - 20:48. events | test automationI've just spent the last two days (Thurs 7th - Fri 8th Sept 2006) at Google's LTAC. I can safely say, this is one of the best Software Testing Conferences that I've attended or even read the programme for. I'm not just saying this because Google were very generous in ensuring that attendance was free, providing the facilities, organising the event, feeding us, providing unlimited refreshments (not to mention beer on Thursday night). The sheer quality of the talks and topics alone were great. The attendees were also exceptional individuals... the breaks were as enlightening as the talks themselves.
images by Adewale Oshineye
Google LTAC was the brainchild of Allen Hutchison (pictured left). As he put it "the great thing about organising your own conference is that you get to include the topics you want". Well, Allen, you weren't the only one who wanted to hear those talks. There was a real community spirit in the air! It was great to meet some people who I've been in touch with for some time by e-mail but have never met. It was also great to cement relationships with people I've been getting to know over time.
What was especially cool about this conference is that there was a healthy mix of developers who are serious about testing and testers who are serious about developing automated tests. I hope to see more like these!
All the talks will be appearing on Google Video, hopefully by the end of next week. To whet your appetite, here is the programme...
images by Adewale Oshineye Google LTAC was the brainchild of Allen Hutchison (pictured left). As he put it "the great thing about organising your own conference is that you get to include the topics you want". Well, Allen, you weren't the only one who wanted to hear those talks. There was a real community spirit in the air! It was great to meet some people who I've been in touch with for some time by e-mail but have never met. It was also great to cement relationships with people I've been getting to know over time.What was especially cool about this conference is that there was a healthy mix of developers who are serious about testing and testers who are serious about developing automated tests. I hope to see more like these!
All the talks will be appearing on Google Video, hopefully by the end of next week. To whet your appetite, here is the programme...
HP to buy Mercury Interactive
Submitted by sbarber on Wed, 26/07/2006 - 20:51. general software testing | Mercury LoadRunner | performance testing | performance testing tools | test automation | test management tools | test toolsOn Tuesday 7/25/2006, CNNMoney.com (along with *many* others) broke the news that the rumored HP/Mercury deal is really happening. A summary and my reaction is below. See the entire release here and draw your own conclusions.
July 26 2006: 9:22 AM EDTNEW YORK (Reuters) -- Hewlett-Packard agreed on Tuesday to buy Mercury Interactive for about $4.5 billion in stock, or $52 per share, in a bid to expand the computer maker's business software operations.
Writing tests that don't depend on your environment
Submitted by webmaster@testdriven.com (Links) on Wed, 15/02/2006 - 07:45. test automationLaurent's latest Incipient.oO{} entry really hit home when I read it. He mentions how the QA team he is helping has been writing tests that work in their own environment but not on someone else's or worse, on the official QA box !
Wait for it...wait for it...
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Fri, 02/12/2005 - 20:09. test automationSo it has been a couple of weeks, has it already -sure has -feels longer, since I was at STARwest and I am still reflecting on the event; which was to the usual high standards.
*round of applause for the SQE Team*
Well it sure as hell reinvigorated me, is it me or have I become rather chatty once more – was rather quite for a while there, which kind of got a pot and kettle comment from Harry Robinson (I am such a namedropper, it is a rather vain glory, I tend to suffer less well in others).
*round of applause for the SQE Team*
Well it sure as hell reinvigorated me, is it me or have I become rather chatty once more – was rather quite for a while there, which kind of got a pot and kettle comment from Harry Robinson (I am such a namedropper, it is a rather vain glory, I tend to suffer less well in others).
Software Test & Performance Conference 2005
Submitted by Yury Makedonov on Fri, 25/11/2005 - 22:33. GUI test tools | test approaches | test automation | test techniques | this.siteI really enjoyed the STP conference. I am not afraid to say that it was the best conference that I've ever attended. Almost all the presentations that I attended were very good. I was especially impressed by Hung Nguyen (I've never been to one of his presentations before). His straight to the point presentation was about test automation outsourcing.