Yes, the Boring Part is Required Too
In this blog posts, Lanette Creamer discusses the basic parts of all software testing activities, being exploratory testing or requirements testing.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests
Martin Fowler discusses the problem of non-deterministic tests – tests that sometimes pass and sometimes fail. Non-deterministic tests can completely destroy the value of an automated regression suite. This article outlines how to deal with them and presents treatments for the common causes for non-determinism: lack of isolation, asynchronous behavior, remote services, time, and resource leaks.
Bugs that Automated Tests Aren’t Good at Finding
This blog post discusses the limits of automated software testing.
The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck
In the episode 167 of the Software Engineering Radio, Kent Beck discusses about this tiny little thing he created many years ago and that has changed the daily work of many many programmers in the world: automated unit testing and JUnit.
What Testers Find
In this blog post, James Bach tells us that testers finds not only bugs, but also but also risks, testability problems, etc.
Using JBehave for Automated Acceptance-Testing
This blog post covers the required implementation to get started with writing Acceptance Tests in a real Java project with JBehave.
Aggressive and Passive Testing
In this blog post, Brian Osman presents two types of software testing: agressive and passive.