What's in a name?
April 24, 2007
There seems to be a flurry of post-agile activity on blogs right now. If you haven’t noticed, you can look at an example here. There is more elsewhere, and Jonathan Kohl tells me there is more coming. What this amounts to is a growing number of people who, for a variety of reasons, have a […]
MAST kickoff and tester lunch
April 18, 2007
After a hectic last year and some technical hitches, I’d like to finally take some action on getting a local software testing group off the ground in Melbourne. Things will kick off with a lunch on May 1st. Details can be found at http://www.quinert.com/. If you’ve emailed me previously or had joined the old forum, […]
Sorry!
April 17, 2007
I thought I was done with ranting about automation tools for a while, but I couldn’t resist this quote from my former boss’ blog: “Tools that let programmers create software by manipulating icons and graphics shapes on screen have a long and sometimes successful history… But these have generally served as layers of shortcuts on […]
More Joys of Vendorscript
April 10, 2007
Someone recently suggested to me that the selection of VBScript for an automation language is because it’s easier for testers. This is slightly rant-y, but I promise there are a few helpful tips in here just to make up for a mild dose of language-warring. Exhibit A. I can understand that there’s a chance that […]
Requirements analysis thought process walkthrough…
March 28, 2007
Michael has moved to a new city, and is obviously free of social distractions. That, or there’s something physically stopping him from playing World of Warcraft. Anyway, he’s blogging again and his latest entry (http://www.ruschena.org/michael/?p=107) on writing technical requirements is well worth a read.
On corporately mandated tools and vendorscripts…
March 20, 2007
I have been riding the ups and downs as I transfer my previous test automation framework learnings to one of the big vendor automation tools. I’d resisted criticism, but today I have to say, loudly, it sucks. Rather than waste my energy, I simply direct you to read this (http://adamv.com/dev/articles/hatevbs/) (make sure you follow the […]
Automate your way to ineffective testing with my twelve step program…
March 9, 2007
How to implement a company-wide test automation framework effort and fail (usually). 1. Choose your test automation tools without ever thinking about what problem you are trying to solve, or what tests are important to automate. 2. Choose the tool that will look best on your resume. Refuse to acknowledge the test results from any […]
Five more things…
March 5, 2007
Jonathan tagged me while we were chatting, so here are my five things you may not know about me (although I know a few readers do): 1. While Jonathan has let slip that I’m a musician, he didn’t mention that I am a failed pop-star wannabe. Our band was the first signing to an Australian […]
And if you think YOU are in documentation hell…
February 19, 2007
Spare a thought for the people that recently hired my friend Steve, as you read about his latest job (in the second last paragraph): http://cramdogg.blogspot.com/2007/02/watching-printer-101.html
Blog overhaul…
While I’m dishing out praise, please check out my new-look blog. It would have looked much nicer, but I was afraid to let my designer go crazy with my blog software’s CSS. This is my paranoia about the fragility of CSS and my CMS, not a reflection on their skill. If you are looking for […]