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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 [...]

Three Fresh Links – Testing Book Reviews

Certainly many of us would like to have more time for reading books. On the other hand, books in the IT sector very quickly become obsolete. But there are many publications that are always worth our attention and that there are a lot of content to think about. Here are some fresh reviews of software [...]

7 Ways to Quickly Rate Website Quality

From time to time someone requests a glimpse of the website quality. Our expert judgement may be insufficient, we must support it with several pages report. How to write such document, where the data take from ? Basic information can be gathered from free to use online tools. Below is the list, composed with a [...]

Usability Inspection Surprise #1

This post initiates a new cycle on my blog, it will be a series of stories about the problems encountered during the “Usability Inspections“. Time to time unexpected and surprising user interfaces solutions. Examples are taken from real life, sometimes You will ask “How is it possible?” :) When usually Usability Inspection gives us a [...]

8 Ways to be a Good Software Tester

I don’t know how to be a great tester but my short list derive from my 7 years software testing and quality experience. It relates to both testers and test/quality managers.
1. Read about the Software Testing
Try to be on time, read news, use Google Reader, use Twitter, etc. Even if 90% of knowledge considered redundant, [...]

FlexMonkey – Flex Test Automation Tool Review

My review plan regarding tools for automated testing of GUI applications written in Adobe Flex, starting from the most promising, easy-to-use FlexMonkey.
The program is based on a sample application AutoQuick made by Adobe, available to present opportunities for Flex Automation API. We are dealing with a typical  Record and Playback application with a small but [...]

Three fresh links – Testing Tools

I’ve decided to follow Nat Torkington in giving You a few valuable and fresh links (three not four because I’m not such great blogger :)), which summarize single topic.
Deconstructing Our Tools by Danny R. Faught
He describes software testing area in application lifecycle management, then He tries to count and name tools that we propably need [...]

Desktop Applications Performance Testing Automatization

We know, nowadays, how to automatically examine the performance of web applications or simple web pages, it is based mainly on how the web server can cope with a large number of simultaneous sessions/users. There are plenty of professional and open source tools: JMeter, WebLoad, etc., the most of them are targeted to a new [...]