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Tag Archives: testing
My notes from the SASTQB TEST-IT 2012 conference
The South African Software Testing Qualifications Board(SASTQB) held their 1st Cape Town conference the 17th of October at the CTICC. The day was filled with presentasions from international speakers such as Rex Black(USA), Geoff Thompson(UK), Mieke Gevers(Belgium), Bernard Homes(France), Mette … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons, testing, Uncategorized
Tagged agile, conference, notes, SASTQB, TEST-IT, testing
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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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Using MTM2010 with Android Emulator
Just another quick post on how I used Microsoft Test Manager 2010 with the Android 3.0 Emulator and what settings to use. Sadly the emulator for Android is very slow and hopefully it will be improved. Testing happens on many … Continue reading
Posted in Incident Management, Reporting, Test Execution, testing, Tools
Tagged Android, MTM, testing, TFS
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What recruiters should understand about testing jobs: Part 5 –Basic Skills
Many job posts read like the desired person must have an IQ of 130+ (yet, the posts are riddled with errors themself). This might seem like a good filtering mechanism, but the reality is that it’s just wishful, causing confusion … Continue reading
Posted in recruitment, testing
Tagged basics, employment, jobs, market, recruitment, skills, testing
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What recruiters should understand about testing jobs: Part 4 –Certifications: Basics
This topic raise many discussions, frustrations and (sometimes heated) debates. Let me explain how I see this. 1. Certification simplifies the understanding of what the person is at least capable of. It does NOT mean the person CAN do it, … Continue reading
Posted in recruitment, testing
Tagged Advanced, bcs, certification, employment, experience, Foundation, iseb, istqb, jobs, Practitioner, recruitment, studies, study, testing
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What recruiters should understand about testing jobs: Part 2 – Roles : Test Analyst and the Technical Test Analyst
Filtering through quite a number of job post on recruitment sites it became apparent that people mix the responsibilities freely. This is not a crime, but it does create an perception for the job seeker that the person who placed … Continue reading
Posted in recruitment, testing
Tagged Analyst, recruitment, responsibilities, Technical, Technical Test Analyst, Test Analyst, testing
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What recruiters should understand about testing jobs: Part 1 –Terminology : Test and Quality
Being in the job market I found there are numerous groups that agree that not all recruitment consultants understand testing and use confusing or invalid content in their job posts. The following few part blog series is to guide recruiters … Continue reading
Posted in recruitment, testing
Tagged assumptions, glossary, quality assurance, recruitment, terminology, testing
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Testing, Trusts, and PlanetX
Lately I’ve been reading up on the PlanetX a.k.a Nibiru. It is fascinating to see so many sides to the story. There’s the believers, the non-believers, the governments, and possibly the rest of us. So many different views to their … Continue reading
The hard way of getting team mates test infected.
To influence people is not simple or easy. Especially if they do not understand your role. Human nature is to get cross at things they do not understand. As a software tester getting team members test infected is an every … Continue reading
Posted in agile, influence, testing
Tagged agile, code smells, fragile, influence, testing, unit testing
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What most managers don’t understand about testing – Principle 7 : The absence of defects proof nothing
This is every team member’s dream to say : “We are not finding any issues, the product is ready for production and won’t fail!” See Principle 1 again. Just because the team do not find any defects does not mean … Continue reading
Posted in management, testing
Tagged bugs, defects, dream, exploratory testing, fear, principles, qa, risk, shareholders, testing
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