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Two months ago, I started learning about the joys and challenges of testing mobile wireless applications. This article is dedicated to the various tips and tricks I've collected along the way that may help you become productive much more quickly.…

Most organizations assume that test strategy should be defined by test managers, tech leads or executives. Perhaps because anything involving the word ’strategy’ is open to interpretation giving it a mystique-laden abstract quality, therefore it is erroneously offered up to the intellectual elite (said tongue-in-cheek) i.e. upper management as a job function.…

Ø Black - Box…

"The full business, from initial thinking to final use, is called the product's life cycle."…

Are you a new in Software Quality Assurance? Please let this be a reference to get you started learning all about SQA.…

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a project that is experimenting with a lean software development environment and so have made a few observations about where QA fits into a lean methodology.

Not being an…

What QA needs from Developers?…

There's an interesting discussion going on at the Association for Software Testing discussion list on non-functional testing. Basically, they think the term is weak and is looking for alternatives. "Non-functional" is a rather bizarre term, though it seems to be gaining…

A major ingredient to reducing development life cycle time is to eliminate defects before they happen. By reducing the number of defects that are found during your quality assurance testing cycle, your team can greatly reduce the time it takes to implement your software project.…

For many years we have studied, debated and improved our knowledge of application and system performance. We know that a mature IT organization is one that measures, plans for the future, then measures again, striving for continuous improvement without painful surprises. Business performance management and truly aligned IT service optimization require capacity planning. We…

I once kept a running statistical tally of the test cases I was executing, passing and failing. It consisted of a total number of test cases, and then a ratio of executed, passed, and failed which was then converted to a percentage. Sounds pretty simple eh? Senior management absolutely loved it because it provided the illusion of visibility to them.…

I was recently asked an intriguing question. The question was simple: do you have to be a programmer to write automated tests? But I struggled a bit to answer the question because to me the answer is not as simple as yes or no.…

Estimates

If I had to think of one subject that was not taught in school, and only covered in industry…

Question: What are the differences between sanity testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and monkey testing?…

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things…

NOTE: It is important to wear gloves when handling peatmoss because of danger of contracting Sporotrichosis (Skilling).

There is a dead zone near the condo where the soil has been sandy and dry. It is a patch surrounded by concrete where the only things that have survived have been one tall palm tree and a shrub, one dwarf azalea (out of four planted) and one spearmint plant (out of three planted). So, since it is a shady area protected from the harsher weather changes because it is…

The works of man namely art is predisposed. A time that is forward with freedom and chaos. The tragedy of this is the affluent desires that fuel our drive of this democratic state. The state of mind embodied in our contest, our state and our culture are in a spiral down ward toward obscenity and recession. The recession comes from military chauvinism and the idea of a working class. A equal society of demos; for the people it stands wrought in irons through religiosity…

We could have told them this! Researchers in Germany found that fibromyalgia patients had frustrating interactions with their doctors. They came up with a shared decision-making training program for the doctors. Then they did a study where some patients were chosen by chance to either get a shared decision-making or get regular treatment plus a computer based information package. All patients got the same treatment options. There were only 85 patients in the study, 44 who ended up in the…

Yesterday, my husband brought home some plastic for covering the outdoor plants. We covered most of the vulnerable plants, and moved some of the plants in containers in. Later, after the sun had a chance to warm everything up, I uncovered the plants, and everything except the basil seems to have survived. I went over to the botanical gardens, but they said it was too cold to do much. We might need to cover the plants again tonight because it is supposed to get cold.

There were some…