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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
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