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Articles and material related to software testing created by Anne-Marie Charrett. Includes exploratory testing, testing strategy, test design and test reporting

Software Testing Industry Benchmarks

There is a bit of a discussion on “industry norms” on the yahoo based software testing group run by James Bach and Cem Kaner. It’s about the problems with trying to compare your company’s software testing against industry norms. One of the comments made by James Bach was:

Straight up, no ice....

Straight up, no ice....

You know the way sometimes, a post, or even a comment on a post gets you thinking. A recent comment by Phil Kirkham on Georgia Motoc’s blog got my subconscious brain working overtime. So much to the point where I feel compelled to put finger to keyboard and write

Software Test Reports for Startups

My test reports have deviated a lot since the early days of testing. Nowadays, first and foremost I provide an opinion of the software. I make sure I highlight both positives and negatives that I see in the product. Naturally, I provide a list of bugs I find, but I

Hackers, Blogs and PC's.... Oh My!!!

What a week! My ‘problem’ antennas have been twitching this week. It started off with my blog and user access. ‘Hedosnorrenny’ had decided to become a contributor to my blog. Without me asking. There he (or she?) was, proudly displayed in my WordPress ‘users’. So, methinks, time to perform some

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Have you ever been in the situation where no-one else can find and repeat the bugs you find? Perhaps you have a canny knack of finding unusual bugs, or maybe it’s time to improve and update how you write bug reports! I do a lot of offsite exploratory testing

Will video kill the written bug?

Will video kill the written bug?

I’ve recently finished some remote testing using exploratory testing techniques. I decided to test out a couple of new (to me) techniques. The first one was using Session Tester to track my effort. The other was creating short videos of difficult to articulate bugs. First a bit about my

Challengers are you ready?

Challengers are you ready?

So far the Gladiators have stolen the show. ISTQB and the other warriors of testing certification have dominated the testing world. It’s not the only profession where this is happening. Network Engineers working now need Cisco certification in order to get jobs, regardless of their depth of knowledge. In