Agile Testing Opportunities
In this free webinar, Rex Black discusses the key testing opportunities created by the Agile approach, so that you can recognize and take advantage of them.
How to Pick Testing Tools
Ultimately, those of us who consider ourselves software engineers, like all engineers, are in the business of building useful things. Of course, engineers need tools. Civil engineers have dump trucks, trenching machines, and graders. Mechanical engineers have CAD/CAM...
Test Strategies from Around the World
This webinar will give attendees an overview of the significant test strategies in use by testers in various industries and business domains around the world. We’ll examine: analytical strategies (where testers analyze requirements or risks to identify the test conditions to cover); model-based strategies (where testers develop a model of the environment in which the system exists, the inputs and conditions to which the system is subjected, and how the system should behave); methodical strategies (where testers use a predetermined set of test conditions, such as a quality standard or set of heuristics); process-compliant strategies (where testers follow a set of processes defined by others, such as Agile testing); reactive strategies (where testers react to the actual system under test rather than trying to pre-plan the testing); and, other strategies in common use.
YU55 Near Miss
I dare to ask about the consequences of an eventually failing asteroid observation software. I think the good news is that there are a lot of amateurs out there who will use a broad variety of similar tools which calculate and “estimate” the same thing. If one of...
A Discussion on How To Do Estimates
Estimates are important to test leads and test managers for a number of reasons. As test lead or a test manager, I would want to know, How many test cases do we need to write? Can we use any of the existing test cases? How many existing test cases do we need to...
Reduce Costs by Decreasing Overhead
When strictly following process, creating pages of documentation, or trying to stop a release without understanding the business, testers do not provide a service. They instead become an expensive part of a company that returns little value. These testers are...
Test Estimation
In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and materials in his best-selling book Managing the Testing Process, 3rd edition, Rex will discuss fundamental techniques for test estimation. Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.
The Fuzzy Line Between Requirements and Design
First, this statement sounds as though there’s a sharp boundary between requirements and design. There’s not. In reality, between requirements and design lies a fuzzy gray region, not a crisp line. I prefer to say that requirements should emphasize what...
Agile testing-Do we need test plans?
If you have worked in a project executed & delivered using waterfall model, you must be very familiar with the test planning process. Usually these test plan documents are comprehensive with a lot of information regarding scope, entry-exit criteria for each gates...
The Price of Right
What made me think of this? When I teach project management and I discuss scope creep; I usually tell a story about one of my first projects. I really wanted to get along with my customer. I was not well versed in all of the project management bodies of knowledge. I...