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When seeking out new tools to aid your testing I strongly believe in doing a proof of concept. It needn’t be anything heavy weight. In fact, the more concise the better. What is a proof of concept? I use the term “proof of concept” to describe the process of evaluating a tool (or service) for
I’m a big fan of gathering metrics about my own activities. It allows me to look at trends and patterns about my own behavior either for self-improvement, or to simply understand more about the things I may have often taken for granted. I’ve also found tracking my Testing activities and some of the metrics that
After meeting Shmuel Gershon, probably the most energetic and enthusiastic tester on the Planet, at EuroSTAR 2010, I was introduced to a man of many talents. Not only does he like to read, write and talk about testing but he’s also adding back to the community in other ways with probably the most useful tool
One of the most amazing things about working in the technology and software world is that this industry advances so fast that I have no real idea what software/technology I’ll be testing on and writing about in 10 years time. 10 years ago I hadn’t really heard of cloud computing, now I’m testing
I’ve tended to keep this blog more distanced from my day to day testing but this in itself has drawn some comments that I don’t talk about day to day “testing”. Well, I’ll hopefully address that with the following few posts about some of the tools and processes I use when testing. Most of my
Those who know the history of The Social Tester will know there are two reasons for choosing the “Social” alias. One: I like to socialise. Two: I’m a fanboy of social media. So here’s the first in a series of posts about how we can use social media tools in our testing world. This
Again this week I’ve been reading blogs, forums and tweets from people dismissing record and playback as a viable automation option. Which is fine, providing reasons and justifications can be cited for not using it. But empty statements and re-iterations of other peoples reasons don’t wash too well, especially in the complicated world of testing