Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2014

Testing Bits – 7/20/14 – 7/26/14

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/20/14 – 7/26/14.

Articles & Blogs

5 Best Automation Tools for Testing Android Applications – Oleg Prosyanik – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/5-best-automation-tools-for-testing-android-applications/
A Proposed Model for ETL Process and Testing – Meenakshi Gangwar – http://intensetesting.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/a-proposed-model-for-etl-process-and-testing/
Are You an Effective Test Manager? – Mukesh Sharma – http://www.techwell.com/2014/07/are-you-effective-test-manager
Blog: The Sock Puppets of Formal Testing – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2014/07/sock-puppets-of-formal-testing/
Building Mobile Apps the User Can Trust – Phillips Lew – http://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/building-mobile-apps-user-can-trust
Breaking barriers, testing style! – Sowmya Ramesh – http://testhuddle.com/breaking-barriers-testing-style/
Considering the Value of Software Testers – Pete Walen – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/considering-value-software-testers

Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2014

Testing Bits – 7/13/14 – 7/19/14

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/13/14 – 7/19/14.

Articles & Blogs

6 Areas Your App Security Testing Shouldn’t Miss – Mike Brown – http://mobileapptesting.com/2014/07/17/6-areas-your-app-security-testing-shouldnt-miss/
A Map for Testability – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2014/07/a-map-for-testability.html
A new defect severity hierarchy … – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-new-defect-severity-hierarchy.html
A new defect severity hierarchy … – David Greenless – http://martialtester.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/a-newer-defect-severity-hierarchy/
Agile testing innovations in a distributed world – Deepika Mamnani – http://testhuddle.com/agile-testing-innovations-in-a-distributed-world/
Are You Feeling Lucky, Punk – Colin Cherry – http://itesting.com.au/2014/07/15/are-you-feeling-lucky-punk/
Blog: How Models Change – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2014/07/how-models-change/

Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2014

Testing Bits – 7/6/14 – 7/12/14

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/6/14 – 7/12/14.

Articles & Blogs

10 Quotes for Software Testers…Since the Last Time – Ryan Arsenault – http://blog.utest.com/2014/07/07/10-quotes-for-software-testerssince-the-last-time/
10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #9 Start with Requirements – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/07/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to_7.html
10 things you can do to as a developer to make your app secure: #10 Design Security In – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/07/10-things-you-can-do-to-as-developer-to.html
App Testing in China’s Mobile Market – Mike Brown – http://mobileapptesting.com/2014/07/08/app-testing-in-chinas-mobile-market/
Batman and Page Objects – Qxf2 – http://qxf2.com/blog/page-object-tutorial/
Best Practices Aren’t – Chris Simms – http://secondsignofmadness.blogspot.com/2014/07/best-practices-arent.html

Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2014

Testing Bits – 6/29/14 – 7/5/14

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/29/14 – 7/5/14.

Articles & Blogs

10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #7 Logging and Intrusion Detection – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to_30.html
10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #8 Leverage other people’s Code (Carefully) – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/07/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to.html
A Beginner’s Guide to System Testing – Bhumika Mehta – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/system-testing/
A discussion on do testers really need to code. – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-discussion-on-do-tester-really-need.html
A New Model of Testing – Paul Gerrard – http://www.eurostarconferences.com/blog/2014/7/2/a-new-model-of-testing
A question on exploratory testing from Quora – Pradeep Soundararajan – http://testertested.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-question-on-exploratory-testing-from.html
Are You in the Right Testing Job? – Aldo Rall – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2014/06/right-testing-job/

Posted on Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Testing Games with Erik Davis at Software QA & Testing Meetup – June 2014

Software QA & Testing Meetup – Testing Games
Date – June 24, 2014
Location – OCLC – Dublin, Ohio

Background:

For our Software & QA Testing Meetup, we follow a general format. A backlog of discussion topics is kept that has been generated by our regular attenders and at end of our monthly meeting, a group of us will decide on a topic for the next meeting… or I will decide on the topic if something strikes me of interest. From there, I will announce topic formally and do the scheduling on meetup.com. Typically, we have have about three weeks to prepare for any given topic.

We follow a discussion based format for the entire evening. I try to kick things off with a question or two and only try to step in when conversation begins to die down or when the conversation needs to be reigned in just a bit. A good evening is one where I really don’t need to intervene too much and the discussion can flow back and forth between all participants. It’s a successful night when all participants have the opportunity to have their voice heard, share their experiences, ask questions, solve problems and INTERACT with each other.