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A lesson out of “Lessons Learned in Software Testing”: Lesson 183
This is a post from an email I sent out to my peers while working at Dynamic Visual Technologies (http://www.dvt.co.za) to create awareness and start discussions. Test opportunities arise whenever one person hands off an artefact to another. I find … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, influence, Lessons, management, testing
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Don’t do testing if you need to hide something
The automotive industry had a fun week with VW getting busted for running software during tests to fake the results of their diesel CO2 emissions. Even the stock prices plummeted around 24% wiping out about $17 billion in shareholder value. … Continue reading
Posted in influence, Lessons, management, testing
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“Killer Effective” Test Analysis–Part 2
Obtaining test conditions is not just for the Test Analyst. In fact, everyone involved with the system should be capable of analysing the test basis(i.e. documents) to obtain test conditions(what to test). The goal of this post is to guide … Continue reading
Posted in agile, Analysis, Lessons, management, Reporting, testing
Tagged Test Analysis, Test Conditions, Test Management
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A scary, yet effective issue management process
Busy cleaning up and sorting out my hard drives and I came across this diagram from 2009 that was generated using a JIRA plugin. It does look pretty complicated, but in fact it is actually very effective when a team … Continue reading
Posted in Incident Management, management, Reporting, Test Execution, Tools
Tagged issue management, process, work load, work load management, workflow
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SCRUM : Is it a ‘Framework’ or a ‘Methodology’
The ‘latest’ buzz phrase for software development companies these days seems to be “We are doing SCRUM”. After talking to many teams and project managers I became aware that there is a serious confusion and then starting to doubt my … Continue reading
The impact of a test policy
Current situation: Many organisations do not have a Test Policy in place, but they do have expectations from testing. Frequently projects are managed in such a way which stands in direct conflict to what and how testing has to deliver. … Continue reading
Posted in Concept, Design, Incident Management, influence, Lessons, management, Performance, Project, Reporting, Test Execution, testing, Tools
Tagged Documentation, Test Policy, testing
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Adding manual builds to Microsoft Test Manager 2010
I have been struggling to add builds into MTM2010 for the past few weeks. There are a few reason why this is a problem. 1) Unable to produce a report on how many test cases were executed in each build.2) … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons, management, testing, Tools
Tagged Microsoft, MTM, Test Management, Test Tools, TFS, VS, VSTE
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Tester Toolbox–Execution/Management – Microsoft Test Professional 2010 (and getting it to work)
For the past 2 weeks I have been playing with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and Microsoft Test Professional 2010. I have to admit that it took me at least 7 days to get things working smoothly for evaluation and … Continue reading
SDLC–Why rush to get flushed, and then do it over again?
I have been doing quite a few interviews lately for a job. This presented me good opportunities to ask questions and figure out what are the common issues development teams have. Quite surprisingly, 4 out of 5 say they need … Continue reading
Feature Overview technique
The other night I’ve been thinking of a way to manage features for my projects on a high level since I’m the type of person that think in pictures. Basically what came to mind was to have a flow diagram … Continue reading
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Tagged feature managament, priorize, requirements managment
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