Posts Tagged ‘Dilbert’

30+ Common Testing Mistakes

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2009 20 Commented

I was cleaning out a folder on my machine when I stumbled on an oldie but goodie PDF called “Classic Testing Mistakes” by Brian Marick.
In the paper he states how he breaks the classic mistakes into 5 themes and how to resolve the mistakes:
1. The Role of Testing: who does the testing team serve, and [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 6 October 2009 28 Commented

Security testing is a process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended.
The six concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.
Confidentiality: A security measure which protects against the disclosure of information to parties other than the intended recipient(s). Often [...]

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15+ Open Source Test Management Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 September 2009 25 Commented

Test Management tools are very important to any test team. Test teams use these tools to help capture requirements, design test cases, map test cases to requirements, test execution reports and much more. Companies may use one to many tools for this, which range from very expensive to open source. My advice would [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Functional Testing Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 4 August 2009 20 Commented

It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces [...]

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Don’t do this…even if Dilbert says so

Posted by Jay Philips On 5 February 2009 No Commented

On 2/1/2009 the Dilbert comic strip had the pointy haired boss telling Asok to create profiles and write positive reviews. This is not a good thing to do. You should not make up ghost/fake profiles just to pump up your product/service. Nor should you write comments that defame your competitors, that’s just wrong. You wouldn’t [...]

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Testing Challenge. Are you up for it?

Posted by Jay Philips On 3 December 2008 one Commented

Creative Chaos has come up with a very interesting testing challenge. The challenge lists out a variety of products and laws. You as a tester need to determine what would you test & why would you test those items.
Here’s the details of the challenge:
Picture It: Maryland, 1982. You’ve been hired as an auditor to check [...]

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Principles of Agile Software Development

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2008 No Commented

Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren’t able to attend (like me) the video is definitely worth watching.
I thought the video was very good and intuitive for people [...]

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