Archive for February, 2009

Do you still remember your first ‘real’ test

I still remember my first real test.
Do you?
Since I generalise wildly, I assume that you do.
Note: my first ‘real’ test. Not “the first time I found a bug”. For the purposes of this exercise I defined my first ‘real’ test as the first time I can remember purposefully thinking like a tester with regards to […]

February 18th, 2009 | Posted in Techniques | 5 Comments

Did you miss these book reviews?

Since Compendium Developments houses my book reviews, you may have missed:

How We Test Software At Microsoft
Apache JMeter
Software Testing An ISEB Foundation
Next Generation Java Testing
Head Rush Ajax

February 6th, 2009 | Posted in Books | No Comments

A quick round up of free Software Testing related pdf magazines

Which ones do you read?

CrossTalk
Testing Experience
Better Software
Software Testing and Performance
(IN)SECURE magazine
Methods and tools

Any more I should add to this list?

February 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Books | 5 Comments

Exploring free and open source test tools

I recently facilitated a session on free and open source test tools at the Test Management Summit. This post contains an edited form of my notes prior to the event and some amendments and additions based on the discussion from the session. [Download the slides from the session]

February 1st, 2009 | Posted in Tools | 4 Comments