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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Three Fresh Links – Testing Interviews
It is time to listen to the voice of the experts.
Interview with Jonathan Kohl, co-founder of Kohl Concepts #1
Interview with Jonathan Kohl, co-founder of Kohl Concepts #2
He talks about his history, how to be a good tester and he lists a number of interesting cases.
Software Quality Assurance Gets a Boost during Downturn
Interview with Chandika Mendis, [...]
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 [...]
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