Test Lab Virtualization – Performance and Storage

Is the VMWare or any other virtualization solution ready for prepare test infrastructure with heavy storage and performance requirements ?
This doubt is recently appeared in my current company, we have applications that need huge amount of disc space and processor performance. Is that really vast requirements ? I do not think so, but let have [...]

Costs of Testing, Costs of Quality

Costs and time of testing are always underestimated ! Axiom ? Hope not and hope that this approach is changing right now. Nowadays business people are trying to ask quality department for time and costs of testing process, previously I used to receive closed timetable without the “testing” word.
See below and get a few diffrent [...]

Test Case Management in JIRA #3

Last but not least part of JIRA test case management tutorial, sorry for some time shift but when You provide new technology it accommodates for a while.
First let’s do some wrap-up:
Test Case Management in JIRA #1
Test Case Management in JIRA #2
Below You find last miles on the road to fine test case management in [...]

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 [...]

FlexMonkey – first questions, first steps…

1. What about modals ?
Nothing extraordinary ! Modal windows are only another type of components container. We must have the knowledge that automation API agent is looking for components in our modal and underlaying container ! So if we have button “Save” in Alert and “Save” in toolbar FlexMonkey will click only the first declared [...]

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 [...]