Archive for May, 2007

The Role of Software Testing

May 22, 2007

This is my first post in the Bug Life Cycle Series. I need to talk about this because when it comes to the role of testing, it’s not clear. The Role of Software Testing is often mis-understood across the different stake holders of the application development & this list includes testers too.
Testing is considered to [...]

The Bug Life Cycle Series

May 11, 2007

I have been talking about Bugs in the Software Applications in my recent posts. They play an important role in Software Development & Testing. The biggest value addition is to uncover the critical issues of the system at the early stage.
I have already written some posts on the Bug Tracking front and find the list below. They talk about how to handle the Bugs, avoid conflicts & the lessons to be learned for the testers.
 

That’s Expected [...]

Non Reproducible Bugs – How to deal with them ?

May 7, 2007

Last week, i had reviewed the bug reports submitted by my team & found that some of them are not reproducible. I am curious about where things went wrong & checked with the team.

Some of the Responses:

Look Venkat, this bug is not-producible always. So we have captured the log.

It does occur if we re-start the [...]

Software Testing Courses and Certifications

May 4, 2007

My friend Mallikarjun of Code Inspections compiled a list of  Software Testing Courses &  Certifications available in the Universities and some professional certifications around the world on testing.
This is useful information for Testers and that’s the reason for this post.
Some more useful resources to explore on software Testing are listed below.

Testing Education from Cem Kaner

Sticky Minds

SQA Forums

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