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Formally known as 'glowcoder'.
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May 10 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Testing NOSQL DB's like distributed Cassandra |
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May 10 |
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Blogs to follow to further learning So, according to meta, only answers can be made CW now. Interesting. Moderators can still make questions CW, but I wouldn't say it's worth a flag :) |
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May 10 |
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Blogs to follow to further learning Edit: hmm, I went to one of my questions. It looks like the CW link is gone. Awkward... |
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May 10 |
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Measuring test performance when there is high variance @alexb Certainly agree (as long you're trying to measure performance, not functionality.) In fact, running the tests many times can give you more than just a better indicator of what is average: it may yield slow-downs and memory leaks you wouldn't have otherwise found. |
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May 10 |
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Blogs to follow to further learning +1 for Alan's blog :-) |
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May 10 |
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Blogs to follow to further learning If you edit the post, you should see a checkbox for "Community Wiki" near the bottom. Essentially, it gives a clear indicator to others that "This isn't an 'answerable' question, but is one that will still be very useful to the community." |
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May 10 |
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Blogs to follow to further learning Sounds like a prime candidate for Community Wiki :) |
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May 9 |
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Should QA be able to code tests? @testerab That is an excellent pearl of wisdom. The best tester is usually the one who is best at testing, just like the best soccer player on astro-turf is usually the best soccer player on grass and on dirt. (Although I wouldn't play soccer on astro-turf... just sayin') |
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May 9 |
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How often do you run long automated user acceptance tests? So automated functional testing then. :-) |
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May 9 |
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How often do you run long automated user acceptance tests? Automated user acceptance tests? I don't follow. Is it a person familiar with how your users think doing it? That'd be a user acceptance test. Or is it a script doing it? That'd be an automated test. Unless you can automate your actual users' responses to your application, I'm not sure you can do automated user acceptance tests. I might be missing something fundamental here... |
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May 8 |
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How to deal with automation naysayers? @Testerab just making sure the next generation of developers and testers get a full appreciation for automated testing tools! :-D |
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May 8 |
answered | How can I report coverage on an n-dimensional test matrix? |
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May 8 |
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How to deal with automation naysayers? @Rsf I think for bugs that have been caught before, though, an automated test that's written correctly should catch if that bug gets re-introduced, and it will do so with a higher reliability than a manual tester. If the bug is re-introduced and the test was written correctly, then it's not the same bug, but a similar one with similar symptoms. But I totally agree with your last clause: repetitive? Yep. The tester did the THINKING to figure out what to repeat. Let's not waste testers' time doing repetitive things. If you can't automate the repetitive stuff, at LEAST get an intern? :-) |
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May 8 |
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Security testing resources Not really an answer, but one big thing to keep in mind about security is that a lot of it isn't necessarily related to your app, but rather the environment your app runs in. One of the best things you can do to test security is to set up the app in a fresh environment. If the security measures aren't part of the scripted install/setup process, it's just begging to get breached when someone forgets a step like... locking down iptables or forgetting a database or file permission or something. |
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May 7 |
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Good resources for traditional testers adapting to an Agile environment +1 because you have a picture. :-} |
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May 7 |
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