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Kent "father of JUnit" Beck is a great story teller and not afraid to pioneer on controversial topics, especially when a new book he wrote is available. ;) In this talk (2004) he brings up the notion of "software health" as opposed to just measuring quality. The quality of software can be measured in many ways, but ...

A big benefit of automated testing is that it is (much) faster than testing by hand. This makes it possible to use testing as a form of instant feedback. Ideally, the test should be able to tell you something is broken immediately after it breaks. This means the basic test cycle should probably run not much longer as a few minutes. In fact, XP ...

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/.(hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite. I really enjoyed blogging at Infosupport and heard that my (mostly) non-technical posts ...

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track.   Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development   Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP!   (Tip from Marike)    

Developers generally do try to test their code but simply don't know how to go about doing so effectively.   So the Braidy Tester compiled a checklist Testing For Developers to at least help prevent the infamous ''Did you even run this?'' bug.      

In an article (Measuring Defect Removal Accurately) Kalyana Rao Konda from AppLabs technologies India presented an impressive list of Test Metrics. David Vaughan presented on the subject earlier, see Test Metrics Without Tears

What should you automate? Everything! What should you automate when you are three months from shipping? Much less!     As always, interesting food for thought from the Braidy Tester   An interesting reaction from Patrick: Re: When To Automate

Testing the features of a product is precise job. But for testing all features of a product, serially executing all tests is not enough. As the Braidy Tester explains, any experienced tester knows that the interaction between features is where the gnarly and deadly bugs hang out. Therefore, testing combinations of features (Cross-feature testing) ...

In a Scalability Story, Eric Sink tells a story about a tool (Crowd Test) he build for automatic scalability testing. This simple tool acted as folllows:   Randomly choose an action to perform. Sleep for a random amount of time. Go back to step 1.  The immediate results were a nightmare! If you're want to be sure you don't have any issues of ...