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Quality Problems Cost Software Companies Up to $22 Million Annually According to New Report

A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate to address the internal and external costs of software defects. Sponsored by Coverity, the IDC white paper “Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility,” found that development organizations find major problems with their software even after quality assurance and spend significant amounts of effort and time to repair those defects. Depending on organizat… Continue

Posted by James Smith on August 20, 2008 at 11:20am — No Comments

Win a FREE Conference Place at EuroSTAR 2008!

To coincide with the Early Bird Deadline of September 19th, EuroSTAR are giving YOU the chance to win a FREE conference place EuroSTAR 2008! Enter the competition today and you could be joining the EuroSTAR Team in The Hague this November for Europe’s premier software testing conference.

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Posted by Susan McAndrew on August 19, 2008 at 2:53pm — 2 Comments

Six Hat Testing

I have just attended an incredibly interesting and challenging training day on the De Bono “Six Thinking Hats”. Although this was not to do with testing, I immediately imagined the possibilities for using this discipline in testing. So for once I am writing from a point of almost complete ignorance and with no real life experience of the method to drawn on. I will be interested to hear your thoughts. The Six Hats methodology is a framework that allows the user to compartmentalise their thinking… Continue

Posted by Tony Simms on August 17, 2008 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

What’s the point in testing software?

“Simon, tell me, what’s the point in testing software?”, said a colleague to me whilst we passed each other in the corridor at lunch today. “Presumably because someone wants to know something about the software”, said I. The reason for this colleagues question was because he was aware of a piece of product which was being released to customers without being tested by our test team. “If that’s there choice, then fair enough” thought I. Which brings me on to one of my annoyances with being a test… Continue

Posted by Simon Godfrey on August 11, 2008 at 5:43pm — 5 Comments

Good testers are hard to find.

Some testers are more equal than others George Orwell wrote, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” and I have often asked “If all testers are equal why are some so darn useless?” What exactly should you look for when recruiting testers? What are the key behaviors and attitudes that indicate that you have found a good tester? The CV and other works of fiction. When recruiting for testers, the first hurdle is getting through the deluge of CV’s. A good… Continue

Posted by Tony Simms on August 9, 2008 at 3:26pm — 4 Comments

Risk-based Testing

Goldilocks and the Two Bears! Lets face the truth, we are testers, we test, that’s what we do. We love it. A good day for us is when everything development delivers to us is sent back with a host of Sev 1’s. Oh yes, we pretend we are concerned about ensuring quality, protecting the organisation and adding value, but really we just love to find fault. The trouble is, those mean tight fisted bean counters won’t give us unlimited budget, the pin striped suites in Corporate keep reminding us… Continue

Posted by Tony Simms on August 1, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Post Release Defects: How can we learn from them?

Question 1: Do you review important (i.e. severe, critical, major) bugs found post release? Question 2: If you do this, how do you ensure that you, and your team, learn from this IF it's a defect which you feel you should have captured in house? We know that in testing we'll never achieve full coverage as we cannot test every combination of every function that exists within a product and we know that by testing we're trying to de-risk the chance of a customer finding that big bug. However, we d… Continue

Posted by Simon Godfrey on July 30, 2008 at 6:10pm — 4 Comments

Professional Vandals

I came across a job ad called Professional Vandals...and just loved the title really. It's a nice change from everyone taking job titles so seriously. Am thinking of creating a strapline for the Software Testing Club - "The online community for professional vandals" :) Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on July 30, 2008 at 9:53am — 2 Comments

Blog Address

My blog: Collaborative Software Testing Continue

Posted by Jonathan Kohl on July 28, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

ComputerworldUK

Not to blow my own trumpet, but my latest article has just been published on ComputerWorldUK.com... http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/legislation/how-to/index.cfm?articleid=1584 It's a pretty basic guide to the whys and wherefores of measurement and metrics. Any questions, drop me a line! Cheers. Continue

Posted by Nathan L Weller on July 24, 2008 at 9:55am — 1 Comment

Association of Software Testing group

I know a few people here are members of the AST, so thought I'd create an AST group. Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on July 10, 2008 at 1:50am — No Comments

Test Common meets with Rally Software

Thanks to Dan Forman, Rally's very capable Director of Partners and Alliances, the Test Common team was able to sit down today with Ryan Martens and Zach Nies. Ryan is the founder and CTO of the company. Before founding Rally Software Development - his fourth software start-up - Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found Avitek, a Boulder-based custom software firm. Ryan's successful efforts at Avitek culminated in an… Continue

Posted by Bruce Daley on July 9, 2008 at 2:11am — 1 Comment

Manual VS Automation

What do you think will be future of Manual Testing? Continue

Posted by Rabindra Dey on July 8, 2008 at 10:13am — 9 Comments

TMMi discussion group

I've started a new discussion group here on Software Testing Club to allow for discussion of TMMi (Test Maturity Model integrated). Find it here: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/group/tmmitestmaturitymodelintegrated Anyone can join and anyone can ask questions. Continue

Posted by Nathan L Weller on July 7, 2008 at 11:18am — No Comments

TMMi Foundation launches

The TMMi Foundation is dedicated to improving test processes and practice. It is a non-profit making organisation and the focus of the foundation's activities is the development of a common, robust model of test process assessment / improvement in IT organisations - namely, the Test Maturity Model integrated (TMMi). After a number of years of development, the Foundation is now ready to launch, and to make the testing community aware of the existence of this initiative. Why not visit the TMMi F… Continue

Posted by Nathan L Weller on July 7, 2008 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Software Testing Club on Facebook

Sorry, couldn't resist it. We have a page on Facebook. Join and become a 'fan'. Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on July 6, 2008 at 8:20pm — No Comments

New group - Resources

I've created a new group called Resources. The idea being that we can post 'stuff' that we think would be of interest to the community. Hopefully after some time we can put the information into a useful form. ('Stuff' being links, tutorials, websites, podcasts, etc) Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 30, 2008 at 12:07am — No Comments

ISEB / ISTQB related posts

I've had a dilema about running this community when it comes to ISEB 'stuff'. I know the views (ie. dislikes) from people on ISEB and I don't hold much/any value in the certificates. However this world is somewhat imperfect. There use to be only the odd request for information on ISEB, but as the club has grown so have the forum posts. The way I view it is that the people on the hunt for this information do it in the belief that it will improve their career prospects. This is probably quite va… Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 29, 2008 at 11:50pm — No Comments

TestCommon- check it out!

Like the Software Testing Club, TestCommon is focused on helping test and QA professionals expand their professional network, enhance their skills and find jobs. Ultimately, TestCommon's goal is to have a marketplace for which software co's and organizations can find highly skilled and geographically diverse testing talent on an on-demand basis. Test buyers get on demand resources and testers get paid for their skills!! Think Testing as a Service! Check it out at www.testcommon.com Continue

Posted by Spleenie on June 26, 2008 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Improving the Software Testing Club

I'm currently on the prowl for ideas to help improve this place. Partly in sponsorship/financially and other in supportive and partnerships ways. It's all a bit fluffy, but think with a good push we could make this place much better. What would you like to see happening here? Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 24, 2008 at 9:18am — 2 Comments

Sainsbury bug

Came across this today. Sainsbury's site had to be taken offline due to some sorta bug. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7461526.stm Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 18, 2008 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Fourth day being added to testing conference CAST

It's great to see CAST becoming every more popular. They've extended their conference to add the 'The Tester's Communication Clinic' by Gerald Weinberg to the fourth day. Only wish I could go. You can see the full details on the CAST website. Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 16, 2008 at 1:55pm — 1 Comment

Testers Need Their Play Time!

To write better scripts Testers need to have some “Play time” with the application/system that they are testing. Hands up, how many of us here have been on project where the test scripts by well meaning test analysts that have never been near, or barely touched the application that is going to be tested. The well meaning TA’s (I include myself here) have had to rely on the bobble heads who have written the specs. I am very aware that in most projects today that this is the norm and sometimes i… Continue

Posted by Brian McRoberts on June 15, 2008 at 8:17pm — No Comments

New Domain for Software Testing Club

I recently changed the domain of the Club to www.softwaretestingclub.com. I believe this will prove to be a more transparent and open approach to running the club and the feedback so far has been positive. The Software Testing Club appears to be gaining momentum and am keen to improve it in any way possible. I honestly never expected it to grow this much. It's all good fun :) Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on June 10, 2008 at 1:08pm — No Comments

Information for All Software Testers…..( that are never printed in the Job Spec)

1. Never get too drunk with Developers/Product Managers. Yes this may lead to great team building, but it may also lead to some difficult times. For instance you are just about to ask for more time to test and Senior Developer brings out incriminating photographic evidence of you dancing on the bar in your underwear. 2. Never test something with a hangover after a night out with the Project team. You raise what you think is a particularly juicy bug that you found the day before but were not tha… Continue

Posted by Brian McRoberts on June 9, 2008 at 7:43pm — 1 Comment

Publications:

Invited as a speaker from Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2008) conference which is going to be held in Milan (Italy) from 25th to 28th May 2008. Will be speaking on extended work in Software Quality Management – A Balance Scorecard Approach. http://www.iir-italy.it/smef2008eng Estimation & tracking - key factor of Agile Project Management. Publishing in Project Management Leadership, QAI Conference which is going to be held on 30-31 may in Bangalore India. http://www.qaiasia.com/… Continue

Posted by ritesh jain on June 5, 2008 at 9:50am — No Comments

ISEB

I have been Preparing for the ISEB foundation Testing Certificate Exam.....Can any boby please suggest me the source of Mock Tests........ThanQ Continue

Posted by satya on May 24, 2008 at 1:11am — 2 Comments

Testing of Web services

Hi I want to know about the testing of Web-services. Is it similer to normal testing or something else. Waiting for response. Thanks Mayur Continue

Posted by Mayur on May 21, 2008 at 9:39am — 4 Comments

Win TWO Tickets to the UEFA EURO 2008 Final, Compliments of EuroSTAR 2008!

To coincide with the EuroSTAR 2008 Programme launch we are giving you the chance to win two tickets to the UEFA EURO 2008 Final on June 29th in Vienna! Don't miss your chance to sit amongst 50,000 spectators and absorb the incredible atmosphere at the UEFA EURO 2008 Final!… Continue

Posted by Susan McAndrew on May 1, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Automated Testing Tools Survey Results

The results of the Automated Testing Tools survey showed that QuickTestPro (21%) and Selenium (16%) are the most used tools. Winrunner is still popular with 9% although as many do not use any automation. The Other section had the most votes (29%) and included Watir, NUnit, JUnit and FitNesse amongst others including custom in house tools. As a result of over 100 responses to the survey from 600 members, I have created the Automated Test… Continue

Posted by Martin Wright on April 22, 2008 at 2:14pm — 2 Comments

Borland SilkTest Webcast

Borland are presenting a webcast on April 22nd at 7am and 10am PDT (which converts as 3pm and 6pm GMT). Details as below. Free registration is required. Webcast: The New, Open Paradigm in Functional Automation In today's IT-reliant world, the application functionality you test can make or break your business. As new technologies and agile development methodologies emerge, fast but powerful functional test automation is vital to ensure systems deliver real value and reliable customer service.… Continue

Posted by Martin Wright on April 11, 2008 at 11:24am — 1 Comment

Survey Results So Far

QuickTestPro is the leading tool with 22 votes. This is no great surprise as general consensus would put this as the test tool in widest use. I am surprised that there are so few votes for other 'popular' tools such as QARunner and TestDriveGold. Selenium follows closely with 17 votes. As this is a relative new web testing tool, this surely shows that Software Testing Club members are at the cutting edge of technology! The largest vote is with Other at 33 votes. From the comments posted so far… Continue

Posted by Martin Wright on April 9, 2008 at 1:47pm — No Comments

Automated Testing Tools survey

Rosie has very kindly put together the Automated Testing Tools survey. I was interested to know how many people were using automated test tools and which ones they were using. If there are enough responses I think it will be worth setting up a seperate group within the club. If there is a large group of users of one tool in particular it may also be worth creating a group for that tool. I would hope that these groups can be used for exchanging lessons learned in automation. Hope you take the t… Continue

Posted by Martin Wright on April 8, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Why I ask people 'To promise to post a profile photo'

I recently added a required question to each persons profile stating: "I promise to add a picture to my profile."

Now ideally people will post photos of themselves, this will help people to put a name to a face which also helps in creating meaningful relationships. The second best option is to upload an image of their choice, which may somehow related to them.

I would like to push the Software Testing Club to create meaningful relationships, where we can identify who is who. It… Continue

Posted by Rosie Sherry on December 3, 2007 at 2:04pm — 3 Comments

Help! ive been outside for two years

Can anyone tell me the best way forward in getting back into testing after an absence of 2 years. I am finding it extremely difficult.
Regards everyone
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Posted by Dave Fenton on November 27, 2007 at 6:26pm — 3 Comments

Data Conversion Testing

I was recently discussing with a colleague the difficulties of reporting for Data Conversion using the traditional waterfall methodology.

The difficulty with Data conversion is that testing it using the waterfall model, its not possible to know the true quality of the data until UAT has finished. UAT generally does not occur till the end of a project. As we all know UAT bugs are the most expensive to fix. UAT bugs also present a higher risk as they are not rigorously System and Unit re-… Continue

Posted by Daniel Kearney on October 11, 2007 at 12:24pm — 2 Comments

Fix Firefox "Unresponsive Script" warnings

Recently i was facing this problem while writing scripts using selenium that firefox pops a warning for unresponsive script (for some how i had to use Thread.sleep(time)).

This is not only annoying but also hearts the efforts for producing unattended scripts. Google ag… Continue

Posted by Ahmed Mubbashir Khan on September 25, 2007 at 8:10pm — No Comments

QA&TEST 2007. Interesting Information

Hi all,

I would like to invite you to participate in QA&TEST 2007, an international conference on Emebedded Software Testing and Quality Assurance that we are organising in Bilbao (Spain). QA&TEST will be held on 17th, 18th and 19th October.

QA&TEST is a unique conference and will bring together professionals and experts from different sectors such as Railways, Aeronautics, Medical Systems, Electronic Devices, Banking, Insurance or Telecommunications.…
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Posted by Silvia on September 5, 2007 at 10:06am — No Comments

You find yourself in a forest clearing

To the north, you see a small dojo.
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Posted by Ben Kelly on August 28, 2007 at 4:06am — 2 Comments

Look elsewhere :)

All my posts are on http://www.quinert.com/blog/ Continue

Posted by Jared Quinert on August 27, 2007 at 1:39pm — 5 Comments

Hello from Seattle

Well. You need to start somewhere, and here's the start.

Who am I? I'm a Test Engineering Manager (read: Software QA Manager) for Google. I work in the Seattle/Kirkland office of Google, primarily on the Google Talk product (though I have 4 others that I also manage.) We do fun things in the Kirkland office -- Maps, Webmaster tools, Google Pack, Sitemaps, some ads and search work, among other things. I've been at Google for about a year now and it's a lot of fun, a great place to work… Continue

Posted by Joel Hynoski on August 20, 2007 at 4:23am — 13 Comments

Hi All

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Posted by Rahul sonawane on August 14, 2007 at 1:05pm — 2 Comments

Blog feature

Just switched on the blog feature as I've just realised people have posted some blog entries that have probably not been seen.

All blog posts made by members will now appear on the homepage. Woo hoo!
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Posted by Rosie Sherry on August 8, 2007 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Testing Blogs

Whats happened to the software testing blog SQA? All I see are adds for Vinyl cutters etc. You have to be invited to testingreflections.com and thats only on prior approval....

Anyone know of a good software testing blog .. is this it?

A bewildered australian....

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Posted by Anne-Marie Charrett on August 7, 2007 at 10:17am — 10 Comments

SOCIAL 2007 Q3

We're holding our Q3 social in London(city) this time round.

Its just a chance for me to get to know some like minded individuals in the Industry and to have a few drinks along the way!

We're holding the event tomorrow the 26th July 2007 near Finsbury Square.

If you are interested, please drop me an email on oliver.caird@rda.uk.com

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Posted by Oliver Caird on July 25, 2007 at 1:21pm — 1 Comment

Software Testing Latest News Today!!!

Dear Testers!!!

1) New Hansoft 5.0 with QA chosen by The Creative Assembly Australia - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=310&Itemid=1

2) IBM's Q2 strongest revenue growth in 6 years - http://testerqa.com/index.ph… Continue

Posted by www.testerqa.org - Kumar on July 19, 2007 at 5:36am — No Comments

Software Testing Latest News Today!!!

Dear Testers!!!!

1) RadView and Anue Systems Collaborate on Internet Application Performance Testing - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=304&Itemid=1

2) Kidambi Seshadri to Head the 3rd Party Testing Practice of Marlabs -… Continue

Posted by www.testerqa.org - Kumar on July 18, 2007 at 4:33am — No Comments

Latest Updates in Software Testing Industry

Dear Testers!!

1) Fuzzing Toolkit For Web Server Testing - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=1

2) Remote device testing - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=297&I… Continue

Posted by www.testerqa.org - Kumar on July 16, 2007 at 9:07am — No Comments

Testing Industry News

Dear Testers!!!

1) Patni partners with iTKO for SOA Testing - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=287&Itemid=1

2) QA-IQ awarded VMware Authorised Training Centre status - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_co… Continue

Posted by www.testerqa.org - Kumar on July 11, 2007 at 4:17pm — No Comments

QA & Testing News

Dear Testers!!

1) VMware Announces Availability of VMware Lab Manager 2.5 - http://testerqa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=284&Itemid=1

2) VMware, Genilogix Team Up on Application Testing Solution - http://testerqa.com/index.… Continue

Posted by www.testerqa.org - Kumar on July 11, 2007 at 5:25am — No Comments

Open Source testing

http://www.opensourcetesting.org/

Run by a friend of mine, really good resource for open source test tools etc
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Posted by Sam Watts on July 9, 2007 at 11:15am — No Comments

Software Testing Lessons from my children (Thoughts on Father's Day)

My most recent column has just been posted on TechTarget in which I discuss some of the lessons I‘ve learned from my children about software testing.

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I had planned an entirely different topic for this month, but I‘m sitting down to write this on Father‘s Day while my sons (Nicholas, age 8, and Taylor, age 4) are napping, and realizing that I‘ve never written about what I have learned about testing from my boys.…

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Posted by Scott Barber on June 19, 2007 at 11:30pm — No Comments

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