Who is Watching Your Test Data?

Who is Watching Your Test Data?

Compuware recently published a study that shows up to 60% of development and testing time is spent working on data-related tasks. Data-related tasks can present themselves in the form of data creation, modification, or writing, investigating, and resolving...
Psychology of an Inventive Tester

Psychology of an Inventive Tester

It is not a job requirement, but when getting hired as a software tester your creativeness will be assessed either through some interview questions or in a practical task. The funny thing is that employers should be careful what they wish for as an overly creative...
Eat it!

Eat it!

Everyone expects testers to do a great testing job, regardless of whether you get the right information at the right time. There is not much you can do about it. I still remember Bart Simpson‘s phrase „You are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don‘t“. So, if...
Lessons Learned in Data Migration

Lessons Learned in Data Migration

When I began working on a data migration project last year, I did not have much idea as to what it could entail. I did not have much experience with data migration apart from having some theoretical knowledge of what one should consider for testing such a project...
Ask the Tester: James Bach

Ask the Tester: James Bach

He’s worked at some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, co-authored a best-selling test textbook, keynoted at every international test conference, and, yes, has primary credit for popularizing the term “exploratory testing.” Did I...