Tweet I have been writing a series of articles on Bug life cycle and some thoughts are still pending. In this article, I will describe my views on effective bug reports and how the same might help to improve the productivity of software development teams. There are many stories around Continue reading
Open Source testing tools are being used aggressively and there are many tools over the web for Java Applications. These tools are great asset to the development teams and provides many features / services over the quality of applications under development. We can use this as the starting point and focus more efforts on the uncovered areas for better quality. Continue reading
Tweet It’s been a while since i wrote any thing new on my blog. I would like to thank all the readers of my blog for keeping this live as of today. There were no posts for the last two years and still attracts good number of visitors. I have Continue reading
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
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
Tweet The Testability Explorer is an open source project that lets you measure the testability of Java code. This is an interesting idea: a metric not of direct quality, or of testing, or of test coverage, but of ease of testing. Presumably code that is easy to test will get Continue reading
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
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
Tweet I have come across yet another static analysis tool for Java programs. ENERGY is a free static analysis tool to measure code quality & presents overall status on the health of source code. Energy comes with a code quality metric by combining the bug patterns on the source code Continue reading
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