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Session Based Testing

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:21 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
As I was planning to do a team-wide presentation on Session Based Testing, I just thought I might as well use this opportunity to blog and share my own learning on Session Based Testing and at the same time prepare for the talk.  Killing 1 bird with Read More...
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Email Address test cases

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:27 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
I've been on many teams in my whole testing career, and for some reason, I always end up getting assigned to validate the email address field. So after numerous times of hunting down my old email test cases from previous team, I am giving up. I thought Read More...
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Software development process

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 9:51 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
1) Order t-shirts for the development team 2) Announce the release date 3) Write the code 4) Write the manual 5) Hire a PM 6) PM spec the software based on the code (to ensure the software meets the specifications) 7) Ship/Launch 8) Test with real users Read More...
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Exploring “Exploratory Testing”

Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:12 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
My current team has been integrating this testing technique for a while now along with the traditional testing methods of manual testing as well as automation.  Most of the testing community that I have known seem to brush this testing technique Read More...
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Help! I found a bug in my code

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 11:19 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
Okay, after a long sabbatical from writing blogs due to various reasons (over-worked, personal reasons, or just plain lazy), I am about to begin start blogging again. My MSDN blog ranking has taken such an embarrassing tumble that I think I need to start Read More...
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Software Testing Forum from MSDN

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:42 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
I have been wondering for as long as I can remember why MSFT doesn't have a centralized forum for software testing. But today, it seemed that testing god has answered that question as I happened to stumble upon this MSDN Software Testing Discussing Forum Read More...
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The bug glide path

Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 12:30 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
Technorati Tags: software development , testing , bugs , scrum Last week, I attended one of the engineering forum held annually at Microsoft (ala Engineering Excellence & Trust Worthy Computing Forum), which I must say is one of the great perks for Read More...
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Demystifying test estimate

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:06 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
Let's think about this for a second: How come a developer can easily calculate implementation time, but why a tester always scratch his (or her) head when asked to provide time needed to stabilize the software? Why is test estimate so difficult and elusive Read More...
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6 things my cats teach me how to be better tester

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:58 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
Keeping pets can bring many benefits -- reduce stress, companionship, attract the opposite sex, etc. However, it just occurred to me that my pet cats actually are even more useful than that. There are certain attributes about them that I find interesting, Read More...
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Maturity model for test organization

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:59 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
One advantage of changing job as frequent as I did, is the privilege of getting hands-on experience of different team environment. I had the opportunity of being on 3 different test teams, each with very distinct characteristics and each team is in very Read More...
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Beta here, beta there, beta everywhere

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:09 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
As our generation starts to march further into the web 2.0 territory and the online world starts growing, everyone is now trying to deliver their new apps into the users' hands as fast as possible. Many web 2.0 companies are now focus on getting their Read More...
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Notes from Techfest and Boku Testing

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:03 AM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
There are a few things which make the first week of March this year to be interesting, most notably: New Daylight Saving Time March Madness It's merely a couple weeks away from Spring Techfest ! As a matter of fact, I'm planning on attending either today Read More...
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Data-driven testing pitfalls

Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:34 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
The concept of data driven testing has been around for quite a long time, and I think it's worthwhile to review its application which can be extremely powerful to automated testing. At the same time, it's also beneficial to know that there are certain Read More...
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Dear Project Manager

Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:23 PM by Chan Chaiyochlarb
I consider myself lucky to have the fortunates to work with many great project managers. But at the same time, I also have the ill fortune to work with many not-so-good-ones. One of the traits which I notice between those two groups are how much they Read More...
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