Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes

A Model Based Approach To Evaluate and Improve Mobile User Experience

January 27, 2014 1

With the increased importance of targeting mobile devices in the software development world, we need better tools to assess the quality of the user experience (UX) on these devices. This article introduces the context that creates the need for a model-based approach to evaluate mobile user experience so that different software, or versions of the same software, can be evaluated in a consistent way.

Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes

January 20, 2014 0

Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes is a free e-book that discusses the topic of Microsoft Fakes. Microsoft Fakes is a code isolation framework for Visual Studio that helps you isolate the code for unit testing by replacing other parts of the application with stubs or shims. With Microsoft Fakes you can test parts of your software even if some parts have not been implemented or are not working yet.

Effective Software Developer Attitudes to QA People

January 13, 2014 2

Agile software development approaches encourage a collaborative setting in software development projects. Software developments and software testers and quality assurance people have to create a better context for working together. This article discusses how programmers can improve their relationships with the software quality assurance people.

Understanding Python Unit Testing

January 7, 2014 0

It might seem strange that software developers still have trouble understanding. In this article, Jeff Knupp tries to describe what unit testing is, why it is useful and how you should perform unit testing for Python code.

How Many Test Cases?

December 16, 2013 0

Can you use the number of test cases as a metric? In this blog post, James Christie discusses this topic and the usefulness of counting test cases.

Specialization Still Prevails in Functional Testing

December 11, 2013 0

A recent survey conducted by the Methods & Tools software development magazine asked who was performing the functional testing in the IT department: specialized testers, software developers or end-users. Functional testing looks for differences between the initial end-users’ requirements and their actual implementation in the software application.

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