Category: Software Testing

The essence of testing on agile projects

‘Capturing the essence’, or ‘core’, has been a key theme in some of my work recently, and in several of the books I’ve been reading. So over a drink with Michael Ruschena tonight a couple of these came out as we linked ‘the core’, ‘agile’, and haiku – poetry that captures the essence. I’ve been […]

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MAST Podcast – Agile testing experiences

I feel very ‘tech’ now. I’ve uploaded an edited audio version of the last MAST meeting, where we (Erik Petersen, Kristan Vingrys and me) attempt to answer John Gallagher’s questions about testing in agile projects. Find it at http://www.quinert.com/mp3/mast200709a.mp3 Enjoy! The three beeps protect the innocent. The first is a service provider, the second and […]

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Attention, attention…

The concept of inattentional blindness has been, if you’ll excuse the unintended pun, brought to the testing world’s attention lately by Cem Kaner and James Bach. Sajjadul Hakim has written recently on an exploratory testing experience in which he attributed failure to observe a bug to inattentional blindness. While this may have been the cause, […]

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Watir difficulties, problems and trouble with TinyMCE

I’ve spent far too much of the last day and a bit trying to get Watir to identify and manipulate the TinyMCE rich text edit control. Hopefully the title of this post will allow anyone experiencing similar problems to Google my solution! TinyMCE does a lot of javascript nastiness (from Watir’s perspective), turning a text […]

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Why is this still happening?

You would think that this kind of message would be a thing of the past, but apparently not. Or at least not when buying tickets to major exhibitions in Melbourne.

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Personal growth and fertilisers (or fertilizers)

Today, I’m translating the Korean children’s story ‘puppy poo’ for my blog. It turns out that somebody has already translated it, so it’s not the world-first I thought it was going to be. Oh well. I needed the Korean practice anyway. It’s a touching children’s story, about a piece of poo who finds meaning and […]

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The Egg testing challenge, context and mission

Matt Heusser is describing his challenge to test various inanimate objects – An egg, a stapler, a salt shaker and a knife. Read it here, but be sure to come back for the rest of the problem. I’d now like you to spend a few minutes thinking about how you might go about testing an […]

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Why I call myself a tester

I’ve been sadly busy, finishing a cool project with much learning, and preparing to leave my current employer Revolution IT for Aegeon. This means I get to have another crack at building an army of testing ninjas and sending them out into the world to hopefully make it a better place. Hopefully, that means less […]

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Big XML files, REXML and learning about stream parsers

After taking the easy route and building some XML check test scripts using Ruby and REXML’s DOM access, I decided that I really didn’t want my computer grinding to a halt for a whole day while it parsed a gig and a half of XML. So it was time to try a streaming parser. Unfortunately, […]

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