How can you explain to a beginner tester the idea of writing, executing and reporting of test cases? It’s a tough job, I found this quite recently by training a new person in the team. Everything I had in my head but there was not one clear and consistent explanation on the paper. Many years [...]
Marcin Zręda Test tools, Thoughts, process improvment test case management, test scenario, Thoughts, tips
I followed Problogger advice in his article about using Mind Mapping software to burst blogger inventiveness. I never thought of using such tools to develop my ingenuity, but I already see that I helps me to better organize thoughts and ideas for new posts. The second great thing is buddies spontaneous ideas, we get it [...]
Marcin Zręda Thoughts, process improvment mindmap, Thoughts
It looks like we have here a little enumeration series (always to five ). Now it is a moment to count online, customer feedback tools. How it is connected with software quality ? Answer is simple, the more involved customers in the development of our products, the better it will be and will have [...]
Marcin Zręda Usability, process improvment, reviews feedback, review, tools
What to do to provide high project quality at the startup? What to do to rapidly create a development environment with project and knowledge management ? In my opinion, the fastest ways, if we do not already have the one, is to use a large number of online tools. Often starting the project we do [...]
Marcin Zręda Test tools, Thoughts, process improvment Links, project management, svn
Let’s check wikipedia citation “Exploratory testing seeks to find out how the software actually works, and to ask questions about how it will handle difficult and easy cases. The quality of the testing is dependent on the tester’s skill of inventing test cases and finding defects. The more the tester knows about the product and [...]
Marcin Zręda Thoughts, process improvment exploratory, Thoughts
For those how cares for software quality, continuous integration is nowadays one of the most valuable process. We should implement it as soon as possible and use as a single, reliable source of test data. I will not write here about what such a process should do, I will focus on something that seems simple [...]
Marcin Zręda Examples, Test tools, process improvment Examples, flex, msbuild
Nearly a year has passed when I wrote about a tool that in a different way comes to gui test automation. In article titled “iTestBot – new idea in test automation” I was wondering the solution based on the images / screenshots. It is very simple and very illustrative technique, allows you to write easily [...]
Marcin Zręda Examples, Test automation, Test tools, process improvment, reviews review, routinebot, Test automation, tools
Christmas and new year is a time for some reading. I try to read the books, which I enter into polemics, I avoid manuals and of course I read many more books not related to work. We have thousands of books related to software testing, test process and quality assurance some of them are already [...]
Marcin Zręda process improvment, reviews book, process improvment, review, Test automation