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Damn it all, it's just not cricket..or is it?

Damn it all, it's just not cricket..or is it?

After fifteen years of living in Australia, some things have rubbed off on me. One of the them is cricket. I have to confess I have spent many a sun drenched day watching the cricket whilst imbibing the odd beverage here and there. One thing that I have noticed in

Softtest Talk on Automated Testing in Agile Environment

Softtest Ireland [http://www.softtest.ie/] does a great job of holding free talks for software testers in Ireland. They held a talk yesterday on the following: Automated Testing & Development in an Agile Environment The two speakers were: Sebastien Lambla [http://serialseb.blogspot.com/]from CaffeineIT is a “developer

Test Tools for Covert Operations

I have one of my clients to thank for this tip. I was performing some software testing recently on a product that had both a software and hardware element to it. The unique setup of the laptop, and peripheral equipment meant I that there was only one test environment available.

It's all about the context

It's all about the context

Kem Caner in his post on what is context-driven testing [http://www.satisfice.com/kaner/?p=45] writes on the difference between context-driven and context-aware: “Similarly, some people create standards, like IEEE Standard 829 for test documentation, because they think that it is useful to have a standard to lay

A CIO's pain....a software tester's gain?

“In April, the CBA announced it would replace the traditional measurement of IT performance – the service level agreement – with customer feedback reports which impact employee remuneration directly.” so the IT news reports. As a result, CIO Michael Harte accepted a reduced paypacket following a June outage. The full article can

50 Beta Testers. Not enough, or better than most?

Two software testers talked about the Joe Stump story this week. One was Elizabeth Hendrickson and the other UTest. The two attitudes to the same story are very different. Let me compare two of the views: First Elisabeth Hendrickson [http://testobsessed.com/2009/09/01/not-exhaustively-tested/] “Problem #2: Thinking that

YouTrack, a new issue tracking tool

I noticed that there is a new bug tracking application on the scene. It’s called YouTrack [http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/] and describes it self as: “web-based, keyboard-centric issue tracker” and “The Fastest Bug and Issue Tracker” “Wow”! Sounds like just the tool for a Maverick Tester! I’ve