This post was written by Skytap Content Managing Editor Noel Wurst and originally appeared on the Skytap blog.The Chicago Quality Assurance Association (CQAA) was founded in 1984 to “promote quality principles and practices within Chicago-area companies” and to provide “a forum for information professionals to present and discuss quality and process management within information systems, technology,… Continue reading Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence with the CQAA
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A Pragmatic Approach to Test Coverage
I like models and I love automation on top of them. Software development in almost any form requires a logical model and an implementation in code. The best developers can find the re-usable patterns or code within a complex system to minimize their work. Functional testing gurus also use this pattern for success. Anti-Patterns for… Continue reading A Pragmatic Approach to Test Coverage
Zombie Test Cases – How They Cost Organizations
The chilling reality is, old test cases never die, they cluster, clutter and disrupt testing and development indefinitely. But why? Because no one can be confident that the old test cases aren’t necessary, no one wants to cull a case when it isn’t clear if it tests a vital piece of functionality or not, so… Continue reading Zombie Test Cases – How They Cost Organizations
.Net Development and Unit Testing Tutorial
Summary The goal of this tutorial is to learn to create C# programs, learn to compile, execute, and debug them, learn unit testing, and learn some general error handling. Overview The .Net Framework is installed on every Windows machine so you can create and compile a program without installing any other components. Visual Studio is the integrated… Continue reading .Net Development and Unit Testing Tutorial
Webinar On-Demand: The Software Virtualization Lifecycle
This post was written by Skytap Content Managing Editor Noel Wurst and originally appeared on the Skytap blog. A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases. Orasi, one of our close partners,… Continue reading Webinar On-Demand: The Software Virtualization Lifecycle
Service Virtualization Expedites Testing; Enhances Quality
In December 2012, research firm Coleman Parkes released a landmark study about the business benefits of service virtualization. The findings were significant: 60% of the respondents indicated that unavailability of systems for testing routinely caused software projects to be delivered late. Furthermore, 70% of those surveyed said their firms were releasing applications with reduced functionality… Continue reading Service Virtualization Expedites Testing; Enhances Quality
Mobile Testing in a Hybrid Cloud: a Practical Solution to Physical Testing Needs
With cloud adoption hitting historic highs, many organizations are reaping the benefits of mobile software testing in the cloud. Here at Orasi, we support the use of cloud-based testing and believe it should play an important role in any mobile testing strategy. Nevertheless, we find that for a variety of organizations, fully cloud-based testing is… Continue reading Mobile Testing in a Hybrid Cloud: a Practical Solution to Physical Testing Needs
Test Case Calamity
One question. Do you manually create your test cases? If the answer is yes, you might want to turn away now as our research has turned up some pretty ugly conclusions. We looked at a large multi-national financial services company and a number of examples of how their development teams approached test case design. As… Continue reading Test Case Calamity
Debugging Windows Crashes with Microsoft Debugging Tools – Tutorial
Summary The goals of this Tutorial are to understand what a crash is, learn how to explicitly create a crash in code, use tools to analyze a crash, and learn how to gather information to file a defect. This will cover basic debugging, not advanced. Overview The dictionary definition of “crash” does not really… Continue reading Debugging Windows Crashes with Microsoft Debugging Tools – Tutorial
Functional Test Prioritization with Heat Maps
I like to make decisions based upon data. One of the more challenging decisions a leader of a functional area will have is workload prioritization. Fact based decisions, in a spreadsheet, are a great way to communicated with executive leaders in IT. One cool method, to determine the test prioritization, I’ve used was a heat… Continue reading Functional Test Prioritization with Heat Maps