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Pair-programming for testers
Last week I took part in my first pair-programming session. Up to now I had done pair-testing many times, so I was aware of the added value from pairing, but somehow I always assumed that as a tester...
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Teaching programmers to test
Would you trust a programmer to test your application? It’s like asking a Fox to guard the chicken-house, right? Well, sometimes you don’t have a choice, or you do but that choice is to release the...
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Agile Thinking instead of Agile Testing
We’ve been working on the 3rd edition of the Hebrew Testing Magazine “ThinkTesting“, going down to printing in the next day or two. This edition’s theme is Agile Testing and so I’ve been reviewing and...
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You must choose correctly what NOT to measure!
It’s not only about what you have in your metrics, it’s also about what you leave outside of them. This story begins one day, just like any other day… The whole R&D department of company XYZ Ltd....
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When your job is NOT TO TEST
The following is based on a true story Imagine you are hired to work as a software tester (or test lead) for a company that develops a web-based product . When you get to the place you notice that...
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Switching to Agile Testing, not as simple as changing your t-shirt
In addition to all my other tasks in PractiTest, I am a tester working and consulting on a number of Agile projects. In total I’ve been in testing for over 15 years and doing agile testing for close...
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Every Tester needs to be an Agile Tester
My wife is one of the smartest people I know. The only dumb thing she ever did was marry me . She’s also a superb project manager, orchestrating operations that are often way too complex for me to...
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Five Testing Questions with Lisa Crispin
I want to start this “Five Testing Questions” interview with a personal story: It was about 4 years ago, as I started doing testing consulting, I began running into work opportunities where companies...
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Trends and Challenges in the Testing Community
The National Software Testing Conference held in London May 20-21st, 2014 focused on some of the key issues occupying the testing community. I was fortunate enough to attend this, my first testing...
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State of testing – summary post
For the first time ever on a global scale a State of Testing survey was conducted to get a snapshot of the current state of the testing community, it’s members profiles, professional challenges and...
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Who Should be Afraid of Agile Testing?
I have been in a number of places where people, mostly QA Managers or Testing Directors, start talking about how they see uncertainty and even a level of threat from the wave of Agile expanding...
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Leading By Example
*The following is a guest post by Brendan Connolly, SDET at Agilysys. The opinions stated in this post are his own. Testers, even when embedded on teams, end up being outsiders. Their value is derived...
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Are mini-waterfalls to be counted as Agile?
I am in the airport, finishing up a business trip that took me from Paris to Stockholm and finished in Los Angeles. Last night I presented at cool Meetup session for the AgileSoCal group (guys thanks...
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Where should you invest your limited testing efforts?
There is always the big question of where should you as a tester (or your team as the testing team) be investing your time. – Should you be running as many tests as possible? – What about automating...
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Don’t Mix Friendship or Politics with Testing
There were times in my testing career when I found myself in a complicated spot as a result of my attempts to be a “good friend”, and in some cases a “team player”. The problem is that when we are...
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The secrets of successful testing-community projects: OTC and SoT
It’s been a couple of busy weeks… 2 weeks ago we had the Fall 2020 OnlineTestConf Maayan reminded me this was our 9th edition(!) I sincerely had lost count. It was a nice opportunity to appreciate the...
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