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 Test [...]
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. So [...]
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 1.6.0 implementation. [...]
This is an update to the post below. I installed Firefox 3.1 beta2 and was surprised that the Send and Discard buttons in Gmail would not work when editing an email. In the Gmail v1.0 layout all would be fine. I searched for the issue but couldn’t find anyone else who had this problem. After [...]
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 working with [...]
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 [...]