Exploratory Testing: How to Test Software
Adam Shostack discusses he state of Software Quality with James Whittaker. Learn about the current transition from testing infrastructure to testing business logic.
Articles by Software Testing Magazine
How Do You Refactor Untested Code?
“Bug fixing often uncovers opportunities for refactoring. The very fact that you’re working with code that contains a bug indicates that there is a chance that it could be clearer or better structured.”
New Models for Test Development
This paper does two things. First, it attempts to demolish a bad model, the quite popular “V model”. In the process, it hopes to banish the phrases “unit testing” and “integration testing” from our vocabularies. Second, it describes a better model. The primary purpose is not to claim to have the right model, but to describe important requirements for test models. Those requirements are summarized at the end of the paper.
How to Regression Test a Relational Database
This article overviews the importance of, and strategies for, regression testing relational databases. If your organization considers data to be a corporate asset and/or you’re implementing mission-critical functionality within your databases, shouldn’t you have a database testing strategy in place?
Achieving Web Test Automation with a Mixed-Skill
This video explores ways of harnessing the experience and skills of people with different backgrounds and channeling them towards the effective test automation of web-based systems.
TestingFAQ.org
This web site lists tools, courses, contractors, consultants and other resources for software testing. http://www.testingfaqs.org/
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
This post says that the gap between the dream and the reality of UI test automation is not a matter of flawed execution, it’s endemic.