Advanced Software Testing: Integration Testing
Integration testing is one of the least-understood and oft-forgotten test levels, but proper integration testing is essential to ensuring that later levels of testing such as system testing and acceptance testing go smoothly. Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn a way to ensure that integration testing is effective and efficient in your organization.
Thoughts on Calls to Reduce the Cost of Testing
Some time ago I was confronted with an assertion made by a project manager that testing was costing the project far too much. I asked what she meant by that. The response was along the lines of, “We have all these test cases and test sets, time has been spent building...
Trading Money for Time: When Saving Money Doesn’t (And When it Does)
In any endeavor I participate in, I have choices. In many of life’s transactions, I can spend money to have something done, or I can spend the time to do that same thing. For some things, it is worth it to invest the time to make up or offset the amount of money to be...
Session Based Test Management: How Even a Little Can Go a Long Way
Imagine a CMMI Level 3 government project with big-name enterprise tools for requirements management and testing. Does that sound familiar? Have you worked on that project? It was one of the past stops in my testing career. In that environment, the test team had to...
Preparing for the Online Holiday Season
If you’re a software tester or quality assurance (QA) professional for any business with a heavy stake in the holiday season – i.e. a retail, hotel, airline, car rental or parcel shipping company – you know that early, thorough planning is essential to ensuring your...
Reducing the Cost of Testing by Avoiding Automation Pitfalls
Ah, the wonders of automation. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this beautiful world where machines can work for or even replace humans. Some people believe that automation can take the job of manual testers, whereas others are more rational and know that an...
Cost of Unbalanced Teams
The obvious and completely correct answer is that it depends on what you’re building; who your users are; and a whole host of other factors. The less obvious factor is who cares? If you have the wrong number of testers, what does that cost? There are certainly costs...
Enterprise Process Assurance: The Missing Link
The implementation of packaged enterprise software changes the dynamics of the relationship between the business and IT, creating new opportunities, risks and challenges. The business gains the control and flexibility to tune business processes more quickly and...
Tester: Not Just a Role Within Itself
Most organizations wish for a quality product but paradoxically, very few give importance to testing. Instead they prefer fixing bugs as they appear in production. The general idea of other organizations is that quality of the application lies in the hands of the...
Testers Meeting at the Bar
About the Author Torsten Zelger I am in the testing business since 12 years and started straight with test automation. A subject that still fascinates me although today I focus more on automated testing BELOW the UI and manual testing again. Before testing I was...