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 [...]

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

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? (See the comments below for more links supplied by our dedicated readership team – many thanks for all those additional links)

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]