Testing – The Critical Path

Recently experienced this at first hand, application containing a serious error has been accepted for the publication, bug had a critical impact on user activity. There is no time to cry, must go ahead and try to prevent anything like it in the future. How we can do it? All we do so far seems [...]

Test Case Management in JIRA #2

In this second episode I will try to go deeper in technical informations. It is a important step to prepare our system to design test case management workflows. First episode link : www.testandtry.com/2009/07/01/test-case-management-in-jira-1/
1. New issue and sub-task types
Test Case
Main issue for collecting test cases in out solution. We can design and add new icon for [...]

Why Tester is Cheaper Than Developer

Another article in the series of “What to do to make life better” and perhaps accurate diagnosis? Welcome to the discussion leave the comments …

1. Nomenclature – Tester vs Developer
Who is the tester? It’s simple: he must check whether something is functioning properly. For example, a hammer, can I drive in nails with it? Yes? [...]

Test Case Management in JIRA #1

Once you have ready and running JIRA instance, which deals with our products issue handling, we would like to do more, especially we have free and waiting great Enterprise version features like custom workflows, plugins, user defined fields, etc. Often issue handling process is placed inside quality assurance department, which manages the tests, if we [...]

Three Fresh Links – Best Practices

No so fresh :) but “best practices” is not a daily news subject. Best practices should be treated as additional knowledge source, which help us improving processes. On the other hand, best practices should not be treated as oracle or bible – read, understand and adjust.
Defect Tracking Best Practices
Short but valuable list of thoughts regarding [...]

IV Software Quality Conference

Next thursday, 28th of May we (in Poland) have a chance to talk and listen about software quality at the biggest conference organized by Polish Software Quality Association www.sjsi.org.
Short description
IT Solutions should be cheaper and better – we can resolve this conflict providing continuous care to the quality from beginning to end process of creating [...]

Follow Usability on Twitter

Twitter currently the fastest channel for the information flow, including those related to the quality assurance and usability. Certainly many of us have trouble being on time in relation to rapidly changing conditions in the world of high technology. Twitter is the solution of course with
desktop client: Twihrl, TweetDeck, Seesmic etc.
Here are a few Twitter [...]

7 Ways To Be Good Developer From Tester Point of View

Several days ago I wrote how to be a good tester, now try to identify points that are important for the developer from tester but also the quality assurance point of view. There are hundreds of articles about becoming a good developer, I have hope that these few following thoughts will help programmers to better [...]