Trends in Static Analysis – ENERGY for better java code

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

CRAP4J for Java Code Quality

Tweet I have been talking about Code Quality through Static Analysis for a while here, here & here. The quality for any application development must begin from it’s gross roots and the Application Code is one of it’s starting point to begin with.Static Analysis techniques help us to identify some 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

Non linear paths from Application Code

Tweet The applications become complex as their code base increases. This has challenges for the testers to determine the nonlinear paths in the application.Most of the Static Analysis tools over the application code helps us to identify the cyclomatic complexity (nonlinear paths) at a method level. These might be helpful 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

The Life Cycle of a Bug – Different Stages in it.

Tweet In this post, i will explore different stages of the Bug from it’s inception to closer. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking System. It’s my fourth post in the Bug Life Cycle series. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking Continue reading

Bug in the BSNL Portal

Tweet Today, i have come across an interesting issue with BSNL Portal. I have been using this site for online billing and payments for about an year. Followed the usual steps and my objective is too see the bill and pay it online. To my surprise, the system says This Continue reading

Context driven information for Bug Reports

Tweet Context driven information is the need of the hour and there is a huge value associated with the same. It’s good to capture the context driven information in the bug reports. My initial experiences with bug reports way back in early 2000 have taught many lessons to improve upon. Continue reading

Hey Testers, Communicate the Value of Testing

Tweet It’s almost a month since my last post on this blog and busy with my upcoming release of QuickRules BRMS. I have been talking to the people around on the Software Testing and felt that it’s not communicated well. Though there is enough information on this subject, i would Continue reading