Test Automation - White papers
White papers, webcasts & case studies related to test automation....
Sogeti Ireland White Papers
At Sogeti Ireland we work hard to develop innovative points of view and undertake research projects to explore topical issues and trends in IT. Our white papers and thought leadership material is produced to provide a fresh perspective....
XP Testing Without XP: Taking Advantage of Agile Testing Practices
This article describes how to use techniques from extreme programming for teams that have not implemented XP ....
Working in the Game Industry: QA and Testing
This article discusses QA testing in gaming industries. It also explains different types of testing involved....
When Should a Test be Automated?
by Brian Marick...
What Is a Quality Use Case?
This article covers: Why Use Cases at All? What's So Hard about Telling Good Stories? Why a Use Case Pattern Language? What Are Patterns? How Should I Use This Pattern Language? What Is the Use Case Pattern Form? Organization of the Pattern Language....
Web Testing
A brief overview of several of the factors to consider while web testing. Published in November 1998....
Virtualization of QA Testing Speeds ERP Deployment at Mercy
This article discusses testing using various tools that are used in software industry....
Using Performance Test Tools for High Volume Automated Testing
Covers following topics : The Traditional GUI Automation Approach A New Way of Thinking About the Problem Implementing the Framework Lessons Learned Using Your Performance Test Tools....
Using GUI-Based Automated Test Tools to Test Legacy Applications
by Keith Zambelich....
Using Bugs To Bring Developers and Testers Closer Together
Share Test Scripts Between Teams Distribute the Ability To Execute Smoke Tests Perform Runtime Analysis Together Use Log Files To Isolate Problems Use Defect-Tracking Systems Effectively Speak Face to Face Next Steps References...
Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts
This month's newsletter is delivered as an On-Demand webinar. It is the 3rd in a 5 part series entitled "Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts" and focuses on uniting both your automated and manual test efforts....
Totally Data-Driven Automated
Tools For Better Testing
By Andy Feibus....
The struggle to create quality software
Software quality practices have been sacrificed as a way to meet the American business model to improve the bottom line. But those sacrifices unnecessarily increase the risk to clients. It's time for information mangers to wake up and understand the ...
The Software Inquisition
Articles on quality assurance and automated software testing using QuickTest Pro and VBScript....
The QP Project
The QP Project is an effort to gather a collection of practices aimed at improving the quality of software products....
The QA Catchall
Article about testing, QA, what is QA, common practices, standards & processes....
The Practical Organization of Automated Software Testing
by Dr. Herb Isenberg....
The Basics of Testing
Covers basics of following: Functional Testing Performance Testing Testing Tools and Services ....
The Automated Testing Lifecycle Methodology (ATLM)
This article covers: Introducing the ATLM Phase 1: Decision to Automate Testing Phase 2: Test Tool Acquisition Phase 3: Automated Testing Introduction Process Phase 4: Test Planning, Design, and Development Phase 5: Execution and Management of Tests ...
Testing Your Web Application, A Quick 10-Step Guide
An informative and concise guide for testing web applications, written by industry veteran Krishen Kota ....
Testing the Weird Wild Web
OnDaWeb, Inc....
Testing Is NOT Quality Assurance
Good article on testing process & Quality Assurance....
Testing Articles
Practical Testing/QA articles updated weekly. All original content written by an experienced Testing Consultant....
Test-Driven Development from a Conventional Software Testing
This article covers: TDD and Conventional Testing Work A Lesson Relearned From TDD to Legacy Code Lessons Learne ....
Test Automation: An Architected Approach
Test Automation: An Architected Approach By Dan Young....
Software Testing Gets New Respect
By Billie Shea....
Software Testing Club Magazine
The first issue of a magazine from The Software Testing Club....
Software Quality Metrics Overview
This article covers: Product Quality Metrics In-Process Quality Metrics Metrics for Software Maintenance Examples of Metrics Programs Collecting Software Engineering Data Summary....
Software Development Management Overview
Software development management Process, Analysis, Design, development, testing, Deployment. Application....
Seven Steps to Test Automation Success
Seven Steps to Test Automation Success. Steps to improve the testing process....
Q&A with George Mackintosh, Chief Executive of TestPlant Ltd
In this interview George shares his insights how the software testing tool market is evolving and how China is evolving as smart phone hub. http://tinyurl.com/356vrcx ....
Problems of testing 64-bit applications
Article. Andrey Karpov. Problems of testing 64-bit applications....
Performance Engineering, the Whole Truth
The field of Performance Engineering is a widely misunderstood area that bridges the gap between Performance Testing and Performance Tuning. This Web site aims to educate people about Performance Engineering, and ultimately assist them in creating be...
Performance Anxiety: Improving Product Performance
Article on Improving Product Performance....
On-track Requirements
How to evaluate requirements for testability. by Rodger D. Drabick, CQA, CSTE...
Mocking the Embedded World
This article shows how the agile practices of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration can be successfully applied to embedded software....
McKesson harnesses HP's SOA for quality assurance
Medical software developer uses Web services to answer the call to do more with less ....
Managing your Way through the Integration and Test Black Hole
This article presents approaches to estimate and manage more accurately the integration and test efforts....
Managing Your ERP Project
How to avoid common pitfalls of implementation. by Marie Benesh....
Managing Quality in Software Development
Article describing experience of software development quality management....
Load test tools - Overview
Overview of Load test tools: OpenSTA, Diesel Test, Test Maker, LoadSim, Grinder, Jmeter, Load runner, rubis....
Is Manual Testing Crippling your Development Project?
Dave Furlani blogs about the manual testing bottleneck and how to achieve more in less time....
Introduction to Testing Object-Oriented Software
This article covers: Who Should Read This Book? What Software Testing Is—and Isn't What Is Different about Testing Object-Oriented Software? Overview of Our Testing Approach The Testing Perspective Organization of This Book Conventions Used in This B...
Introduction to QaTraq Series
The 'Introduction to QaTraq Series' is a series of 5 articles looking at how QaTraq can help address some of the common test process issues....
Introducing Automated Testing to a Project
This article covers: Introducing Automated Testing to an Organization Test Process Analysis Process Review Safeguarding the Integrity of the Automated Test Process Considering the Use of a Test Tool on a Particular Project ....
In-Process Metrics for Software TestingThis article covers: In-Process
This article covers: In-Process Metrics for Software Testing In-Process Metrics and Quality Management Possible Metrics for Acceptance Testing to Evaluate Vendor-Developed Software How Do You Know Your Product Is Good Enough to Ship? Summary Referenc...
Improving Software Testing: Focus on the Testing Team
This article covers: Define Roles and Responsibilities Testing Skills, Subject-Matter Expertise, and Experience Tester's Effectiveness Test engineer self-evaluation ....
Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development (TDD)
This article provides an introduction to Test-Driven Development with concrete examples using Nunit ....
Improve - Software Process Improvement Newsletter
Improve is a free newsletter offering summaries of the latest developments on key methods and techniques....
How to build a robust Test Automation Environment
Been trying to create an automated build and test environment to support your Agile team? Anthony Scotney has posted a 2 part blog on setting up and configuring Subversion, Hudson and LiquidTest so now you can automate your builds and your functional...
How to Automate Testing of Graphical User Interfaces
by Tilo Linz and Matthias Daigl....
How Mature is Your Automated Test Suite
by Mark Fewster....
High-Maturity Project Management
Project management practices...
Extreme Programming (XP)
Extreme Programming, or XP, is a lightweight discipline of software development based on principles of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. XP is designed for use with small teams who need to develop software quickly in an environment of...
Exploratory Testing: Finding the Music of Software Investigation
Many software testers don’t realize that there are learnable exploratory testing skills they can develop to help them become even more valuable to software development teams....
Effective Bug Tracking Process
Bugs are part of every product development process. How do you track the bugs you find during product development and after? Bugs that are found but not properly tracked might slip away and be discovered by your customers....
Delivering reliable software: Unit testing applied to .NET Framework
An article dedicated to unit test development and unit testing frameworks construction with Microsoft .NET Framework....
Conventional Software Testing on an Extreme Programming Team
Contents Experience 1: Early Success Experience 2: Challenges Lessons Learned Integrating Conventional Software Testing on an XP Team....
CM & Problem Management FAQ/Tools Lists
Comprehensive resource for Configuration Management and Problem Management and related tools. Includes tool descriptions and reviews, FAQ's, links to related web sites. Based on the FAQ from usenet news group comp.software.config-mgmt....
Choosing and Managing the Ideal Test Team by Lloyd Roden
This article presents how to build and manage efficient test team. It also introduces the "tester’s style analysis questionnaire" to discover the 4 types of tester that exist within organisations....
Best Practices for Planning your Manual Test Effort
This month's newsletter is delivered as an On-Demand webinar. It is the 2nd in a 5 part series entitled "Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts" and focuses on best practices for planning your manual test effort....
Best Practices for Planning your Automated Test Effort
This month's newsletter is delivered as an On-Demand webinar. It is the 1st in a 5 part series entitled "Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts" and focuses on best practices for planning your automated test effort....
Bad Software Website
A companion website for the Bad Software book by Cem Kaner....
Automation: The Key to Sustainable Testing
Think automation - Think self-service Consider automation technology choices as you would any investment....
Automating Specification-Based Software Testing
by Robert M. Poston....
AskProcess Inc
Good articles on software development & QA processes....
Application Integration & Management
Application Integration & Management Testing Smooths Path to Integration ADT/September 2000 issue By Lana Gates....
Add MyLinks Application Error Handling
Conscientious developers often want to help the end user when an application error occurs by creating a message to be displayed that contains detailed information. However, if developers are overly helpful with their error handling approach....
Analyzing Performance-Testing Results
This article covers: Performance-Degradation Curves Complex Performance-Testing Scenarios Going Forward References...
An Agile Tool Selection Strategy for Web Testing Tools
A "from the trenches" report on tool selection in a team developping a java Web site....
A Manager's Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls When Automating Testing
This article covers test automation Lessons Learned Solving Problems....
15 Useful Test Cases for ensuring Consistent User Interfaces
When testing user interfaces, it is easy to overlook test cases that ensure that your user interface is user-friendly and consistent. This newsletter identifies 20 test cases that might be considered when testing user interfaces for consistency....
10 Lessons in Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
A satirical approach to software project management....
Testing Checklists, Plans and Articles
A few testing checklists, plans and articles related to testing....
Lessons in Test Automation
by Elfrieda Dustin. This article collects lessons learned on various projects after they started using automated tools....
I18N ( Internationalization ) Testing web pages
Principles, practices and techniques for doing I18N( Internationalization ) Testing...
Functional Integration Test Planning
A tutorial on writing test cases for functional integration testing....
Evaluating Tools
A five-step process for selecting the right automated solution. by Elisabeth Hendrickson...
Effective Beta Testing
by Michael Bolton....
Classic Testing Mistakes
by Brian Marick....
Bug Life Cycle Model
Learn how to integrate bug tracking with your product development process....
Automated Test Tools Evaluation / Comparison
Index B from Quality Web Systems Book which compares all the major test tools for evaluation purposes. Book by Elfriede Dustin et al....
Automated Software Testing - A Perspective
by Kerry Zallar....
Artciles by Rex Black
Several publications authored by Rex Black, President and Principal Consultant of RBCS, are available on this web site to assist in building an effective test team and organizing test strategies....
Optimizing your Test Efforts during the QA cycle
This month's newsletter is delivered as an On-Demand webinar. It is the 4th in a 5 part series entitled "Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts" and focuses on optimizing your test efforts during the quality assurance cycle....
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