Funky tester
People getting into testing now, are having an easier job – not least because there is a lot more discussion and information around the benefits of testing. And a general acceptance that testing has lagged behind modern development approaches, to extent it was covered in other ways. Newbies to testing are treating testing like a [...]
Test Analyst or Exploratory Tester?
After contributing to and reading discussions about Exploratory testing, it struck me that what we have is a kind of project generation gap. i.e. people who started in IT pre or post Agile. Exploratory testing is what I would call test analysis, an assumed skilled for a tester when I started. When modern methods started [...]
TDD
TDD takes more management, and more admin work from the team, but ultimately will help you deliver products faster and of better quality.
Exploratory testing was always in scope
Exploratory testing – I found it intriguing how it became so big a subject of it’s own, but also unsurprised given the damage done by an army of poorly qualified testers and testing demotion, starting around 10 years ago. And at a time when (pointless) reinvention of the wheel became IT industry pastime. Testers who [...]
HTMLUnit and Proxies
Proxies are bain of automated testing, but there is simple way to both create a profile add proxy details, along with username and password (often forgotten in proxy tutorials). Here is the Java code that solves issue, when using Selenium Web Driver and HTMLUnit.
C# Security Testing
White-Box testing is testing the system based on the internal perspective of the system.In this case, this is also known as Static Analysis. These tools can find issues with the source code before the code is actually executed.
Exploratory Testing
Exploratory Testing (ET) has somehow become a specific “type of testing”, when I (and many others) had always used it as part of general testing approach (i.e. an enhancement). Agile and Lean methodologies encourage ET as default, as it’s very given to the whole “Review & Improve” ethos. But ET has a longer history, dating [...]
