Software product success.
Blackbox tests and whitebox tests.
These terms get thrown about quite a bit. In a previous post, we referenced Marc Clifton’s advanced unit testing series. If you were already familiar with the domain, his article could immediately build on that background knowledge and extend it.
Software testing can be most simply described as “for a given set of inputs into a software application, evaluate a set of outputs.” Software testing is a cause-and-effect analysis.
Tony just put up a post at Seilevel’s blog on making sure your spec is reviewed. Kent Newsome recently posted about starting cross-blog conversations here, possibly inspired by Amy Gahran’s post about it here. Tony’s post is a great topic to cross-blog about. Three easy steps to blogversation Post your […]
Software testing is a field that is so broad reaching that you can write hundreds of books about – and people have. There are different techniques and different tools. New testing technologies are being created all the time. There are a host of different goals – testing requirements, testing designs, […]
Thanks to the folks who pointed out to me that the blog was down for almost 12 hours today. The mysql database for our blog went down and it took a little while to get it operational again. Now to get back to the actual business of posting content…
B. Scott Burkett writes a post, Choosing the right methodology, that is worth a read. He proposes that you pick your process (incremental, RUP, agile, waterfall) depending on the circumstances of each project. This builds nicely on the discussion we started in our Foundation series post, Software process (waterfall process […]
I realized a few moments ago that I have been remiss in updating my little black book blogroll with some of the really good blogs that I read. I thought I’d take a moment to shout out to them and thank them for some really great content that has helped […]
In Those “Minor” Usability Annoyances, Daniel Read at developer.* writes in on a topic that resonates with me. Daniel describes working on a critical application with multi-year, continuous development and a couple hundred internal users. I’m currently helping a client incorporate automated unit testing for a similar enterprise application, and […]
For folks who were paying attention recently, I added some technorati tagging capabilities to the site, and started adding tags to the posts. Guess I got a little overzealous (or the plugin was a little flaky), and I brought the site down. We appear to be back up now, and […]
Five easy steps to alienating your users with bad usability Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. Build an inconsistent UI layout or interaction design that varies throughout the application, creating a sense of dissonance for the users. Interrupt the […]