Software Quality Insights
October 2010
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Chris McMahon on experience reports, writing and one year at SSQ
28 Oct 2010 -
Kent Beck on release schedules
- Excelon Development 25 Oct 2010 -
Pairwise testing at STPCon
- Excelon Development 22 Oct 2010
If you're a regular reader of SearchSoftwareQuality.com or of software quality publications in general, you are bound to be familiar with the writing of Chris McMahon. He is one of our most ...
Many readers will recognize Kent Beck as the co-creator of Extreme Programming, as one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, or for one of his many books on software development and unit testing. ...
This year's STPCon had something a little bit different - hands-on sessions where not only did the presenter actually test software -- the participants did as well. The first session of the ...
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Decreasing the cost of testing at STPCon
- Excelon Development 22 Oct 2010 -
Interest in Agile continues to rise
21 Oct 2010 -
Do you confer ... locally?
- Excelon Development 14 Oct 2010 -
How detailed should test cases and requirements be?
14 Oct 2010 -
Are you a ScrumBut? And if so, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
07 Oct 2010 -
Butt-in-seat, hands-on keyboard: Quick attacks
- Excelon Development 06 Oct 2010 -
Exploratory testing's "intelligent" creativity
01 Oct 2010
I'm here at the Software Test Professionals Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on "How to Reduce the Cost of Testing." It was ...
The results of SearchSoftwareQuality's reader survey are in and Colleen Frye reports the findings in her article, Agile, virtualization help with long-standing challenges. The interest in agile ...
Years ago I read that famous line in Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Conferences are for conferring I appreciated that line. All too often, we show up and listen to someone read powerpoint, ...
Recently, SSQ published a tip from requirements expert Robin Goldsmith titled, What is a test case? What is a requirement? In the article, Goldsmith writes about an experiment he did in which test ...
I first heard the term, Scrumbut, introduced by Mike Cohn at a Denver Agile User Group meeting. The term is used to describe people who might say, "We follow Scrum but ... we don't do stand-up ...
Last Friday, I was pleased to have the opportunity to present on testing at my Local Perl Programming group. First off, yes, I think it helps for programmers to learn about testing. No, not just ...
I first became interested in exploratory testing while reading James Whittaker's book on testing and testing "tours." Reiterated by "buccaneer tester" James Bach, I learned that exploratory is more ...