STANZ 2010 testing conference was quite a biggie for me. This was my 7th STANZ but it was the first time that I’ve officially stood in-front of a good three dozen people and talked about something I care about. I held my talk on Performance Testing in NZ. The main aim being to convince people to [...]
This year the Oceania CITCON was held in Wellington to my huge delight. It was a first attendance for me. I won’t go into detail about what was said and done because the website has a good Wiki where you can read-up on what went down. I hope all the scribes put up what they [...]
I created my Twitter account sometime in 2009 but just couldn’t figure out what to do with it and what it was for. So I dropped the whole subject and fired up FaceBook. 2010 and WeekendTesting is gaining traction. In the process of getting involved I was confronted multiple times on how I could NOT [...]
About three hours ago I got involved in a twitter-discussion with James Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) and Michael Bolton @michaelbolton). The discussion was all about how to call automated testing in conjunction with exploratory testing (ET). The knee-jerk reaction would be to call it “automated exploratory testing” or “exploratory test automation”. Sounds good and without much ado [...]
Continue reading about Testing Terminology… today – automated exploratory testing
Well, the first step is done. We have just had the first ever WTAZ session! And it went great! *yay* The objective was here: http://groups.google.co.nz/group/software-testers-new-zealand/browse_thread/thread/6cbee3a6fb040310 The raised bugs can be seen on http://bugrepository.com – project WTANZ01 The transcript is here: WTANZ Session 01 18-04-2010 As you can see the session was very lively and we had [...]
This weekend we’ll finally have our own Weekend Testing chapter in Australia & New Zealand! It’s been a few weeks in prep but it’s finally happening and I’m excited. Oh, you probably won’t know what Weekend Testing (WT, http://weekendtesting.com) is! So let me explain… This WT stuff was “invented” in India and is spreading the [...]
One year’s gone and Stanz 2009 has just finished. I like Stanz it gives us Test Analysts/Managers a regular wake-up call. It is the time we get reminded that the job we do can be more. It can be a calling, a field of interest and an engineering practice. Matt Mansell’s (DIA) talk about Growing Great [...]
Today I was at a nice breakfast invite from the Soft Ed guys. They brought out Rex Black for some courses and had him give his short spin on (A)agile testing. As most of you probably know or can guess, Rex Black’s law is quite the opposite of what I believe testing should be like. [...]
Google has finally started an experimental release of its offline GMail client. It uses Google Gears as you might expect. The current downside is that it is only available for US and UK customers. Since I like being a Beta tester (it hones my work skills as a tester) I’m a little disappointed. But it’s [...]
Today I spent half a day on an issue with JMeter. I do lots of HTTPS testing and on some of my new PC’s running Ubuntu 8.10 JMeter would only give me… java.net.SocketException: Unconnected sockets not implemented After a lot of searching I discovered that this seems to be an HTTPS change in the Java [...]