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137 2010/May/28 the waterfall of defects because throwing it over the wall is fun
136 2010/May/27 Copying tests between HP Service Test Projects adding tests is still too much work
135 2010/May/26 Bulk Test Creation using HP Service Test a sorely lacking feature... solved!
134 2010/May/25 Testing For Odd Perfect Numbers because testing for even perfect numbers is too easy
133 2010/May/17 Lint Free Tests no fluff
132 2010/May/17 Business Engagement Models don't change for you, don't change a thing for me
131 2010/May/12 Survey Complete to be continued...
130 2010/May/10 Traffic Lights vs. Ticks and Crosses an anecdote regarding the benefits of tester specialisation
129 2010/May/07 Getting to the real issue sometimes the first solution isn't for the current problem
128 2010/May/05 Why don’t we test our own processes? I’ve always done it this way regardless of quality so why should I change?
127 2010/May/04 It is still a coincidence but it has trend potential more test managers are heading back to testing
126 2010/May/03 Software Testing Research 75% of people know that surveys result in bandy-able statistics
125 2010/Apr/30 Breadth first approach to service testing a lesson learnt in service testing
124 2010/Apr/28 Games for Testers – Sudoku more games for testers
123 2010/Apr/27 Project vs. Enterprise Services enterprise services are the waterfall model of the SOA world
122 2010/Apr/26 Games for Testers – Logic Puzzles another game for testing relaxation
121 2010/Apr/24 The Most Awesomest Thing Ever testers; they are awesome and they help you be more awesome
120 2010/Apr/23 Failure Evident Systems should software systems too big to fail be failure evident?
119 2010/Apr/22 Futures in Software Testing a new approach to software testing education and development
118 2010/Apr/21 Futures in Software Testing – Story #2 how Andy decided that user interaction and the business domain knowledge disciplines were right for her
117 2010/Apr/20 Futures in Software Testing – Story #1 how the disciplines in software testing model saved one tester from a career in management
116 2010/Apr/19 Futures in Software Testing – Futures and Present Self planning a future in software testing
115 2010/Apr/18 Click here to ignore this message in future… automating one off tests in the UI
114 2010/Apr/17 One time offer on defects integration issues that only occur once
113 2010/Apr/16 Futures in Software Testing – Measuring Competence Pt 2. an updated approach to the self assessment classifications
112 2010/Apr/16 Software that is too big to fail The impact of defects is much bigger when the software impacts society
111 2010/Apr/15 Futures in Software Testing – The Security Tester introducing the security tester discipline
110 2010/Apr/14 Futures in Software Testing – The User Interaction Tester introducing the discipline of the user interaction tester
109 2010/Apr/13 Futures in Software Testing – The Infrastructure & Integration Tester introducing the discipline of infrastructure and integration testing
108 2010/Apr/12 Futures in Software Testing – The Behavioural & Functionality Tester introducing the discipline of behaviour and functionality testing
107 2010/Apr/11 Regression Tests as a Test Smell aimless testing because we don’t understand the change or business is bad practice
106 2010/Apr/09 Futures in Software Testing – Test Lead & Test Manager introducing the discipline of management
105 2010/Apr/08 Futures in Software Testing – The Business Domain Knowledge Tester introducing the business domain knowledge tester
104 2010/Apr/07 Futures in Software Testing – The Performance Tester the technical discipline of performance testing
103 2010/Apr/06 Futures in Software Testing – The Automation Tester introducing the discipline of automation
102 2010/Apr/05 Games for Testers – Find a Word illustrating techniques using puzzles
101 2010/Apr/04 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Find and Replace find and replace for Vanilla C and HP Service Test
100 2010/Apr/03 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Windows Event Log Checking the event log using vanilla c
99 2010/Apr/02 Futures in Software Testing – Assessment Model measuring competency in software testing
98 2010/Apr/01 Futures in Software Testing – Fundamentals core competencies in software testing
97 2010/Apr/01 NATA – nada free tip: if you represent testing authorities don't have bugs in your homepage
96 2010/Mar/31 Futures in Software Testing – Disciplines eight directions for professional testing development
95 2010/Mar/30 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Trimming Strings Using one simple function my strings are much more trim
94 2010/Mar/29 Futures in Software Testing – System Testing Sucks developing futures in software testing
93 2010/Mar/28 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Useful String Functions making your life easier with basic string functions in vanilla c
92 2010/Mar/27 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Windows Registry Fun! checking the windows registry using vanilla C
91 2010/Mar/26 QC Service Test Cleanup a job to cleanup the ridiculous number of files generated during a service testing run
90 2010/Mar/25 Useful HP Service Test Results generating metrics from Quality Centre and Service Test
89 2010/Mar/24 Quality Centre Cycle Changer automating cycle changes in QC
88 2010/Mar/23 HP Service Test & Quality Centre Nightly Test Runner automating service test execution
87 2010/Mar/22 Structuring Service Tests in Quality Centre using a folder structure to service test information
86 2010/Mar/19 An approach to software testing automation automated tests that don't break constantly; say it ain't so
85 2010/Mar/17 Automating the passing of a failing test annotating tests to detect changes in behaviour
84 2010/Mar/16 Testing Cross Cutting Concerns in HP Service Test auditing, exception reporting and data persistence testing, oh my!
83 2010/Mar/10 Improving HP Service Testing Summary collected wisdom
82 2010/Mar/08 finding bugs with luck user testing is not a replacement for actual testing
81 2010/Mar/05 HP Service Test – Protocols Configuration bug the bug that stops you from using different protocol configurations in the same iteration against the same service
80 2010/Mar/04 Improving HP Service Tests Part 8 being executed as!
79 2010/Mar/03 Improving HP Service Tests Part 7 fixtures for validation
78 2010/Mar/02 Improving HP Service Tests Part 6 validating fault behaviour
77 2010/Mar/01 Improving HP Service Tests Part 5 great fault expectations
76 2010/Feb/26 Service Testing – What are we checking? for every service outcome there exists some validation we have to do
75 2010/Feb/25 Improving HP Service Test Part 4 surfing the pipeline
74 2010/Feb/24 Improving HP Service Tests Part 3 configuring service tests for use
73 2010/Feb/23 Finding the Minimum Set a workflow for service testing new operations
72 2010/Feb/22 Improving HP Service Tests Part 2 focus on the delta!
71 2010/Feb/19 Automated Data Integrity Testing trust me; it's freaking sweet
70 2010/Feb/18 Pre-Integration Environments function test and system test are old fashioned, out dated and finally, stoopid names.
69 2010/Feb/17 Passing the failing test identifying change in regression tests
68 2010/Feb/15 Quality Assured Google Buzz and why it probably passed testing
67 2010/Jan/28 The Great Australian Internet Blackout a look at the complexity of testing nationwide web filters
66 2009/Dec/09 Improving HP Service Tests – Part 1 one small step for writing less code
65 2009/Dec/08 all aboard the failboat how to miss the basics of testing and usability in a very simple web application
64 2009/Nov/26 Finding bugs is not always fun why I waited 35 minutes at 2 in the morning for a taxi
63 2009/Nov/11 Shorthand Methods in HP Service Test
62 2009/Nov/10 Local Parameters and HP Service Test
61 2009/Nov/09 Parameterisation and Strings in HP Service Test
60 2009/Oct/27 Better default run time settings for HP Service Test
59 2009/Oct/19 Data Dependant Service Testing
58 2009/Oct/17 Peculiar Bugs…NetBeans IDE 6.5.1
57 2009/Oct/12 Identity Specific and Anonymous Data
56 2009/Oct/03 Peculiar Bugs…Nokia N95 redux
55 2009/Oct/02 Speeding Up Test Development in HP Service Test
54 2009/Oct/01 Structuring HP Service Tests
53 2009/Jun/05 Test Execution Peer Reviews
52 2009/Jun/04 The How of Testing
51 2009/Apr/10 Performance Testing the Cache – The Point of it all
50 2009/Apr/09 Load Testing the Cache – User Quantities and Expected Behaviours
49 2009/Apr/08 Load Testing the Cache – Memory Usage Over Cache Access
48 2009/Apr/07 Testing the Cache – Forcing Cache Collisions
47 2009/Apr/06 Testing the Cache – Auditing
46 2009/Apr/05 Testing the Cache – Security
45 2009/Apr/04 Testing the Cache – Shared vs. User Level Caching
44 2009/Apr/03 Testing the Cache – Multiple Caches
43 2009/Mar/31 Testing the Cache Priority Policy
42 2009/Feb/26 Testing the Cache – Cache Dependency
41 2009/Feb/19 Testing the Cache – Sliding Expiration Policy
40 2009/Feb/18 Testing the Cache – Absolute Expiration Policy
39 2009/Feb/18 Testing the Cache – Quick Clarification
38 2009/Feb/17 Testing the Cache
37 2009/Feb/02 obscure integration bug
36 2008/Nov/27 Improving Tests
35 2008/Nov/18 How can we make testing sexier?
34 2008/Nov/08 I have no idea
33 2008/Nov/03 When knowing quality matters
32 2008/Oct/20 Agile Gripes – Testing by HAL9000
31 2008/Oct/19 CakePHP Unit Testing Gripe #703
30 2008/Oct/19 CakePHP Model Testing Addendum
29 2008/Oct/16 CakePHP Unit Testing Gotchas
28 2008/Oct/15 The Testing of Services Summary
27 2008/Oct/14 A Case against Early Integration
26 2008/Oct/13 Service Testing – How It Should Be Done
25 2008/Oct/10 Service Mockery and Automated Integration Testing
24 2008/Oct/02 Which Questions to Ask?
23 2008/Sep/30 May I Ask a Question? questioning the name of the game
22 2008/Sep/26 A Different Model for Service Testing
21 2008/Sep/25 Service Testing Focus
20 2008/Sep/24 Service Documentation & Testing Implications
19 2008/Sep/23 Service Implementation Testing Implications
18 2008/Sep/22 Non Functional Service Testing Implications
17 2008/Sep/21 Service Testing Directions
16 2008/Sep/18 Crowd Sourcing Testers
15 2008/Sep/14 Code Coverage
14 2008/Jul/21 Testing is in the eye of the beholder
13 2008/Jul/18 All quiet on the testing front…
12 2008/Jul/07 Technical and Semantic Compliance
11 2008/Jun/24 Rapid Test Case Creation
10 2008/Jun/23 Testing body image
9 2008/Jun/04 Why I am making defects public
8 2008/May/11 Testing Tip #1 – Boundary testing business objects
7 2008/Apr/29 Controlling Testing Environments
6 2008/Apr/22 Usability: What is the ideal date control?
5 2008/Apr/18 Usability Case Study: Facebook Advertising
4 2008/Mar/06 Project Development Iterations
3 2008/Feb/03 Test Case Structure write more tests in less time
2 2008/Jan/14 Testing SOA: Service dependencies and their impacts on testing managing service dependencies during dev & test
1 2008/Jan/10 Testing SOA – an introduction an overview of the issue of who should be testing services