Exploring key competences that endow a good games tester In this article, I will explore what I feel are the most important skills and attributes of a good game tester, and what type of mindset I believe a good game tester should have. This is based on my experience and my context of working with …
Lab team brainstorming session Whether you work in engineering/product, operations, or even marketing, keeping your team trained and engaged with their work is a challenge that is universal for all managers. This is hard enough when your team is in-house, but what are you to do, when you have multiple teams to manage across different …
If you want to enjoy your job and not worry about lack of resources, or have old, outdated strategies, with failing or meaningless test automation – get help! We all know about globalization. Markets are global, products are global, mobile is global and software development is a global. As a result, the workforce is …
Most software engineers intuitively perform BVA to some degree. By applying these guidelines, boundary testing will be more complete, thereby having a higher likelihood for error detection. Software is tested from two different perspectives: 1. Internal program logic is exercised using “white box” test case design techniques. 2. Software requirements are exercised using “black box” test case …
A test plan should always include exploratory tests as part of the approach. Without them, the number of defects that find their way into production will always be higher. Exploratory testing is a key testing technique that is often left out of formal test plan phases such as system testing, system integration, and regression. Instead, …
LogiGear Magazine September 2012 – Integrated Test Platforms
A few months ago, Dr. Rebecca Fiedler and I published BBST—Test Design. This third course completes the Black Box Software Testing (BBST) set. The other two courses are BB ST Foundations and BBST Bug Advocacy. This article offers some information about the series, the design of th e series (and the underlying instructional theory) and why you might …
LogiGear Magazine – February 2011 – The Exploratory Testing Issue
Incorporate Exploratory Testing into your Test Strategy and find better bugs faster! Description: This two-day course is designed to give test engineers a global understanding of exploratory testing. From why we do it and its uses to how we do it and the value of measurement, Exploratory Testing will be examined and practiced to empower …
According to Associate Press (February 9, 2010, Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer), “Toyota is recalling 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problem.” Toyota is the world’s largest automaker with impeccable quality reputation up to now.