Evil Tester

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

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)

A short list of Software Testing PDFs to enjoy and learn from. The CAST 2008 proceedings OWASP WebGoat and WebScarab – teach yourself some penetration testing The FitNesse Fixture Gallery Getting fit with .Net Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

Steve Martin’s Autobiography starts with the following phrase: “I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success… enjoyment when performing was rare – enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the [...]

“What testing books should I read?” such a hard question to answer in a land where a testing book that has value at one point in your career ceases to have value later on. I do have some books that I recommend to testers, entirely ignoring their context – ha… see… Eeeevil… So… 5 books, [...]

A title like that always makes an attractive proposition. Fergus O’Connell presents a simple system which involves doing more of the stuff you want to do and less of the stuff you don’t. Fergus present some NLP techniques, a bunch of questionnaires, some belief change exercises and some tips. It all adds up to a [...]

I put my Software Testing Book reviews directly on my Compendium Developments site. So if you only read Evil Tester then you missed out on Reviews of: Effective Software Testing by Elfriede Dustin, Software Testing Fundamentals by Marnie Hutcheson, Testing Computer Software by Kaner, Falk, Nguyen, Systematic Software Testing by Craig and Jaskeil, Software Testing [...]

I have done a lot of public talks over the years (but never enough to consider myself ‘good’ at it). Over the years I have adopted numerous approaches to constructing the presentation and of constructing the slides. You can see some of my worst slides. This slide pack seems better. But overall these slides seem [...]

I love pulp novels. Particularly the hero pulps – The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Spider. So when I saw “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on the bookshop shelf with its distressed cover and the sadly slightly camp depiction of Lester Dent (on the UK cover). I had to buy it. [amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]

285 pages to tell me the ‘one’ thing I need to know? Obviously Marcus plans to tell me a little more than one thing. But the basic message behind this book seems to be “there are a few things good managers/leaders do, which prevent them from failing. But there is One thing that the best [...]