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Dear Managers, remember to get your hands dirty once in a while

By on September 15, 2010 in Best Practices, Management

Have you noticed how specially in larger organizations we see some (or even most) managers becoming paper-pushers, spending all their time in meetings and answering emails (in their iPhones & BlackBerries!).  It’s not surprising how this behavior also starts disconnecting them from the real work being done “in the trenches” by their testers and developers. [...]

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Test Size Matters: THINK BIG, test small!

By on September 7, 2010 in Automation, Best Practices, On-Going Improvement

- Is the size of a test important?
- How big and comprehensive should a test case be?
- Should tests be always small, or should you write comprehensive tests that cover end-to-end and complex scenarios in “one-go”?

All of these are important questions, and even if there is no text-book answer for them there are some guidelines you can consider when you are wondering about this subject.

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A chance to take a look back

By on August 30, 2010 in Best Practices, Communication, Management, Testing Intelligence

After a break of 2 months from posting I found myself reviewing the subjects I’ve talked about in the past in this QABlog. I found some interesting points to revisit briefly before renewing the regular posting.

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4 Practical Tips for Testing your Application “In a New Light”

By on June 6, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

A good tester needs to be able to look at his application with different perspective points and “in a new light” in order to find as much as the bugs in the system as he can. Here are some tips on how to gain perspective during our testing tasks.

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SaaS Testing Webinar

By on April 24, 2010 in Best Practices, Conferences & Seminars, Test Process

On April 21st I gave a webinar titled “Testing a SaaS Platform on an Agile World” here is a syntax of the presentation and some of the questions asked during the session.

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Become an Expert Customer-Advocate in 5 Steps

By on April 14, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

My last post was about the advantages of User Profiles in testing; Sarah Murphy wrote a follow-up post on her blog saying that maybe we don’t really know our customers that well, and this fact can seriously hamper the effectiveness of our tests.  To that Sarah, I can only say: AMEN!! So the question now [...]

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