Archive for September 2009

Some test ideas from Matt Heusser’s “How would you test this?” blog

This is not a trivial piece of software to test given your overview of pages, workspaces and networks and activities widgets.
Given that this we are using some flavor of Agile:
What was developed for this iteration?
MH [Great questions, Justin. In reality, in the first iteration, we didn't have the next/previous links at the bottom, or the [...]

Kata for testers

What is a kata?
Kata is a Japanese word used to describe a specific set of movements that are practiced in repetition. Kata has roots in martial arts such as Aikido and Kendo where a choreographed set of movements is the dominate form of training and practice for new practitioners. The philosophy of this repetition of [...]

Medusa the Benevolent

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More thoughts on estimation

Software testing is similar to investigative journalism in more than a few ways. The journalist and tester immerse themselves in an environment to interact and learn from experience to be able to tell the tale of their adventures and exploits at some point in the future. Software testing and investigative journalism are similar in the [...]

Armand Bayou Nature Center

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On estimation of testing activities

I, like many others am being asked for an estimation of time on how long it will take to complete testing activities for each thing I am testing. In the past, the estimations were made and were not used for anything except to mark velocity on a burn down chart. Naturally the line for programmers [...]