Weekly essays on testability, testing and being a tester.
November 2007 - Posts
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Stop going 40 mph in first gear. This article is recommends three sources for better ways to work. It’s not about testing in particular, just working. Working in technology can be chaotic. You will often get a lot of training in the deeply technical. Read More...
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Escape the BVT automation trap. Create outstanding BVTs on time and on budget. The build verification tests (BVTs) for your product are important to get right. Automated BVTs are a very powerful tool in your test arsenal. They allow you to know if a build Read More...
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Be a testability champion! When you are in a design phase for a product test should be involved and comment on the designs. The job of the professional software tester at this point is to give actionable feedback on the testability of the product. Testability Read More...
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Get good returns on your test automation dollar. Building test automation is like building a house. Test automation seems like such a good idea. Convert something time consuming and boring into an automated process. It really is a good idea but you have Read More...
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One important aspect of any testing is logging good information about what’s going on in the tests. Tests are made up of many modules. In a lot of cases one logging engine is packaged with the test harness. All of the components downstream from the harness Read More...
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