Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Automating Traceability and Documentation webinar. The recording is now available on YouTube if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session follows.
Last week I participated in the Verify/ATI (Automated Testing Institute) Conference held in Arlington, Virginia from September 26-28.
I presented two breakout sessions: “When to Ship” on Tuesday afternoon and “Measuring Technical Debt with Load Testing” on Wednesday morning. The sessions were videotaped, and if the links are posted I’ll provide them in an update to this post. I was also interviewed on video by the conference chair about why I was participating in the conference and what I was getting out of it.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponWill you be attending the Verify/ATI Conference at the end of September? If so, be sure to sit in on the two talks we’re hosting.
Peter Varhol will be presenting When to Ship: Using Automation to Determine Application Deployment Readiness at 2:45 p.m. on September 27. During this presentation, Peter will provide measurable criteria for determining when an application is ready to ship. He will also discuss how to create objective measures of completeness and how to collect data and track progress toward that end. Peter will explain how testers and quality assurance professionals can work with application stakeholders to contribute to both the definition and automated measurement that determines if an application is fit for its intended purpose.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponVirtual machines offer a great way to run automated scripts in a separate, customized environment of your choosing. The virtual environment can exist without interfering with your normal computer. You can configure the virtual machine to ensure the environment remains constant on each script run. One way to make better use of actual machine resources is to have QA Wizard Pro start up and shut down the virtual machine on its own. This way the machine is only running when it is being used for automation.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponAutomation in your process is key to reducing human error and delays. While automation also includes things like automatically assigning bugs to developers and setting fields to specific values based on certain conditions, I’ll talk about email notifications in this post.
Seapine ALM can send automatic notifications. Surround SCM and TestTrack can notify users when something happens under specific circumstances. In fact, Surround SCM 2011.1 introduces enhancements that provide more dynamic notifications, such as notifying the last user that checked in files, the user selected in a custom field, and more.
If notifications are not set up properly, you risk spamming your users with emails that are not of interest and just make noise. Before you know it, users set up a rule to route emails sent from Seapine ALM to a folder that will rarely be reviewed.
While the mechanics of notifications in TestTrack and Surround SCM are different, the following high-level best practices apply to both.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponOn January 19, I presented the ‘Manager’s Guide to Defining Testing in an Agile Age’ webinar. This is the last post in a three-part series I’ve been doing to highlight the key takeaways from the webinar; get your testers involved early, make your testers first-class participants, and today I’d like to drill down into the third and last area.
Automate testing processes and activities.
In one sense, Agile methodologies were a reaction to the over-tooling of traditional methodologies. Many Agile proponents believe that too much time was being spent operating and collecting data for tools instead of focusing on the actual work to be done.
But automation is essential in many aspects of Agile testing. Automation enables the easy collection and analysis of data that enable testers and other project team members to make decisions about the quality and completeness of work. And testers need to make use of automated defect tracking to make sure a feature is retested when a defect is found, even if the defect is fixed right away.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponOne of the more popular feature requests from QA Wizard Pro customers is exception handling. We added two well-known exception handling techniques to QA Wizard Pro 2011: Try…Catch statements and On Error statements.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponThanks to everyone who joined us for the QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn: Improving Script Resiliency webinar. The recording is now available if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session is below.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponJoin us on October 6th for a 30-minute webinar on improving automated test script resiliency in the upcoming QA Wizard Pro 2011. Matt Fuhrmann, QA Wizard Pro software engineer, will discuss how to:
If you’re new to QA Wizard Pro or want to learn more about advanced script error handling, this event is for you!
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponThanks to everyone who joined us for the QA Wizard Pro Lunch and Learn: Get More from Load Testing event. The recording is now available if you missed the training session or want to watch it again.
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