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By: Jon Bach, Quality Engineering Director for eBay
Jon examines five considerations for mobile testing: Device, Platform, Carrier, Feature & Location.
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By: Doron Reuveni - CEO, uTest
The consumerization of enterprise software applications is no longer on its way – it is here. And this movement is empowering a new and increasingly mobile workforce to turn data into information, and information into action – anytime, anywhere, for anyone. While it’s tempting to think these waves of disruption won’t affect your company or industry, the truth is that no space is exempt. It is crucial that tech execs and their organizations are prepared to meet the challenges these emerging technologies present to the world of app development and testing...
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By: Lynn McKee, Owner & Principal Consultant - Quality Perspectives
Test planning is an important element to all testing efforts although it appears in many forms. For some projects test planning is a formal exercise focused on the development of a comprehensive, preemptive document labeled the Test Plan. For other projects, test planning is a dynamic, lightweight exercise constantly adapting to the changes in the project and the information testing is revealing...
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By: Dan Downing, Co-founder & Principal Consultant - Mentora Group
Dan Downing and Jon Bach will present Arming Yourself for Performance Testing: War Stories from the Trenches - pre-conference workshop in a story-telling meets performance testing format...
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By: Seth Eliot, Senior Test Manager - Microsoft
Quality can be defined as meeting the customers' needs. Juran posted this definition in 1988, defining quality as "fitness for use". Testers like this definition as it gives them a "north star" to guide their actions and it reinforces a role that most testers relish, that of customer advocate. However Crosby's older definition of quality as "conformance to requirements" still holds strong sway, and many test processes are guided by test cases correlated directly to requirements....
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By: Matthew Sullivan, Performance Quality Control Engineer, Wolters Kluwer
During World War II, the occupation of remote Pacific islands by American and Japanese troops often had an unintended effect on the indigenous inhabitants. Religions arose which attempted to magically achieve the wealth and power perceived in occupying soldiers by constructing crude approximations of their customs, clothes, and devices. There are storied accounts of these 'cargo cults' with airfields dug in the sand, and monitored by imitation air control towers and radios made of coconuts and bamboo but absent of any of the circuitry or electricity required to make them functional...
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By: Michael Czeiszperger, Founder, Web Performance, Inc.
The most common question regarding a website's performance is not how fast the website is
or how it scales, but something more fundamental:
What should our performance goal be in terms of concurrent users?
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By: Jon Bach, Manager for Corporate Intellect for Quardev Laboratories
They were dressed mostly in black and acted like it. They were curious, but apathetic to my presence
as they surrounded me – about 45 high school students who were told that a software tester was going
to talk to them about testing.
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By: Nancy Kelln, Independent Consultant
My planning for Christmas is in full swing. My house is decorated and the kids are
very excited to see what Santa may bring for them this year. While talking about
Santa and the magic of Christmas I started to think about what I might want.
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By: Karen N Johnson, Owner/Consultant, Software Test Management, Inc.
International websites – sites that support a multitude of languages and have a user audience that spans numerous countries and continents – introduce unique testing challenges. Based on different projects for different clients, I’ve needed to strategically plan testing for websites and mobile usage where the user base was large and spanned across the globe. Below are some sample challenges to consider and ways to address those challenges.
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