Just diligently downloaded the beta 2 of Firefox (Mac OS X). Yes, yes I know…. but I am this way. I test betas of Firefox, CrossoverOffice, WordPress and others. And I do give feedback to these projects. Probably one of the banes of a tester! But I think it’s a little like voting. If you [...]
Sometimes when doing web pages or testing text input you wish you had the Lorem ipsum text handy. It is the de-facto standard for temporary text input. There are two sites that can help with that. Have a look at http://lorem2.com/ and http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/. Both allow for different configurations depending on what you need.
S. Ballmer seems to be toying with the idea of using WebKit for the Internet Explorer (see here). Apart from the fact that I’ll only believe that when I see it I do support that idea. Especially IE is responsible for a lot of grief when browser testing. IE8 seems to be another milestone that [...]
Or as Yoda would have said “To have fallen so far and learned nothing – that is your failing.”. I have now been in the testing business since 1998. It is my profession and I do sometimes think that I am a little proficient in what I do. I remember back in 2002/3 I was [...]
I want to welcome John Bach to the Blog world. Especially since he seems to have taken his brother’s call for more testing blogs very seriously. There cannot be enough blogs/books/talks/conferences about testing. It’s too easy to fall behind and become complacent. I think especially blogs give you the chance of “staying awake at the [...]
Lots of us depend on RAID 5 for the security of our data (plus backups of course!). We often don’t really think about what RAID 5 is and the deeper workings of it. Well, I just got a wake-up-call. A good tester should take nothing for granted. Not even RAID 5 (or RAID 6 for [...]
Google has announced another new tool. It’s called Chrome and is a browser. Why on earth do we need another browser? If they’d do one for Android (their mobile platform) I’d understand – but for OSes?! They use Apple‘s WebKit as a base rendering engine and put some -admittedly good- fluff around it. But what [...]
I’ve just finished another performance testing project for a government project. The application was not too testing but like a lot of projects the servers and users are dispersed across the country. This makes the influence of the network a key factor in performance issues. Networks are an unknown beast to most testers and there’s [...]
Every now and again I have the need to test the speed of hard drives. Usually to check that the connections I made (USB) are correct. Today I found a very good tool to do this with. It is called AJA Kona System Test and can be downloaded here. It even shows a graph of [...]
I do a lot of performance testing in my testing job. Performance testing compared to all other forms of testing is a little out there. It is more of an investigation than a test (testing as where there is a concise goal that is to be reached). There is much to be said for performance [...]