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| bio | website | hexawise.com |
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| location | Chapel Hill, NC | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | May 20 at 13:28 | |
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I am the founder and CEO of Hexawise. I'm interested in using Design of Experiments methods from applied statistics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of software testing. The Hexawise test design tool improves coverage with the fewest possible number of tests. It uses pairwise, and other, more sophisticated methods of optimized combination testing.
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Test case design standards- friend or foe? Removed the < and the > from my post which had inadvertently resulted in my disclosure sentence being hidden. (I was trying to add more visibility to the sentence, not make the sentence invisible!) |
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Feb 1 |
answered | Test case design standards- friend or foe? |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Dec 7 |
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What online games (ideally with a bunch of glitches) would make for a good software testing training exercise? Dan, I would prefer a game if possible to have some fun, get non-game testers out of their shells and out of their comfort zones a little bit. Part of the challenge I have in mind will be to "parameterize" user playing styles and possible user actions which is not a traditional test design technique most of them will be familiar with. Thanks. |
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What online games (ideally with a bunch of glitches) would make for a good software testing training exercise? Added a few thoughts. |
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Dec 4 |
asked | What online games (ideally with a bunch of glitches) would make for a good software testing training exercise? |
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Sep 24 |
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Are state transition diagrams a good software testing technique +1 Superb answer, Dale! |
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Sep 24 |
answered | How do you test for everything that could go wrong? |
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Jul 19 |
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Can exploratory testing replace executing manual functional tests? +1 for Chuck's suggestion, which I love. I am a HUGE proponent of running experiments and capturing data. Doing so helps people learn a lot. In the absence of actual data, opinions prevail. The opinions that prevail often belong to those with the loudest voices and/or are HIPPO's (the Highest Paid Person's Opinion). Experiment. A Google search for W. Edwards Deming and PDSA would pull up some interesting articles and blog posts on this topic. |
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Jul 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 25 |
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What are the benefits of Block Testing? +1 for a wonderfully clear explanation and an additional +1 if I could vote it up again for these great sentences that should be carved in stone: "In the end, the math doesn't really matter. The reason to measure coverage isn't to produce a number - it's to help you discover what areas of the code are not covered by your testing so you can determine if more testing is needed. In other words, coverage testing is a method of discovering new tests." |
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May 24 |
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Is it worth investing much time into iteration testing? Dustin, You wrote your own software to create 2-way and 3-way coverage?! Cool! You're a man after my own heart. It's a shame so few testers know about these powerful test design methods. Please check out our Hexawise test case design tool and let me know your feedback. My experience confirms your assertion that moving from 2-way (pairwise) to 3-way tests has a much lower ROI than the 2-way tests because you'll often quadruple the # of tests executed to get to 3-way coverage with a much lower number of new defects found per test as compared to the bugs per test ratio from the 2-way tests. |
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May 24 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 24 |
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Does automating your manual tests give you good automated tests? deleted 3 characters in body |
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Does automating your manual tests give you good automated tests? added 2 characters in body |
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May 24 |
answered | Does automating your manual tests give you good automated tests? |
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May 24 |
answered | Systematic approaches to selection of test data |
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May 23 |
answered | Is it worth investing much time into iteration testing? |
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May 23 |
awarded | Commentator |
