Testuff – The Test Management Tool for small and medium projects

Tweet Almost an year ago, I have evaluated some low cost and open source Test Management Tools. Managing the Test Efforts & Test documentation is always an issue for small and medium companies. The following were my requirements for Test Management Tool Capture the Requirements Design & Prepare Test Cases Continue reading

Software Quality and Testing Podcasts

Tweet Podcasts are useful resources for testing community. These are free mp3 files you can download and listen to at your convenience. It contains various topics on Software Testing, Quality, & Development. I would like to share some of the podcasts that i follow for my blog readers. Podcasts from Continue reading

Software Requirements are Required Reading by project teams.

Tweet I have always challenges with the Software Requirements for the products and would be the same for others too. Most of the time, the requirements talk about just the functional needs and ignore on the non functional aspects of the system. Once the requirements are freezed, we rarely go Continue reading

Trends in Static Analysis Tools and Code Quality Metrics

Tweet Interesting trends are happening around Static Analysis and Code Quality. The tools vendors closely looking at each of the code quality metrics and merging them to have a better metric. We can see the pattern from Agitar by coming up with CRAP4J. Here is one more vendor coming up Continue reading

Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization

Tweet As Testers, It’s important to identify the value associated with Software Testing and communicate the same across organization. Please check the following webibar for some view points on communicating the value of Software Testing. Test managers constantly lament that few outside their group understand or care much about the Continue reading

Test 2008 – Software Testing Conference

Tweet Test 2008 is the first conference being organized by PureConferences in India. Our conference will provide a platform for international and national test professionals to interact and participate. Speakers from around 10 countries, such as USA, UK, France, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, including India will deliver keynotes, tutorials, and Continue reading

What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError

Tweet As a Tester & Developer, it’s pretty common to see NoClassDefFoundError. It’s not that easy always to figureout the required jars for the application. Whatjar comes with a lot of search capabilities to identify and download the required jars. Whatjar is a high-performance, search engine written using Java and Continue reading

Software Testing – Is it a cost or an Investment for Stakeholders ?

Tweet Software Testing is considered as a Cost for some Stakeholders & an Investment for others in their context of operation. It’s good to know the status in your context. I had this query in LinkedIn Answers & thought of sharing the good discussion to my blog readers. Do you consider Software Testing as an Investment or a Cost in your Continue reading

Ability to identify the hot spots of release from Bug Database

Tweet Bug Database for the products might have thousands of issues over a period of time against various builds and releases. Though these issues fixed over a period of time, it might be hard to derive meaningful metrics over the release. We need to support these releases over the production Continue reading

Whitebox Testing – Is it really white ?

Tweet The popular myths around Blackbox & Whitebox Testing are by it’s name. It’s black since we can’t see it (don’t have access to the code) & it’s white since you have access to all the code. But then, With in the code there are many black boxes inside and Continue reading