Exploratory Testing and Review
This post about exploratory testing and review discusses the misapprehension that the advocates of exploratory testing suggest that review or other forms of testing should be dropped.
Knowledge
Software Testing Articles, Blog Posts, Books, Podcasts and Quotes
Defects are a sociological problem
Defects are not so much a technological as a sociological problem. So the measures we take to control them can be expected to lie largely in the sociological plane, affecting the structure and organization of projects, the allocation of goals, and the fostering of new attitudes. Tom DeMarco, “Controlling Software Projects”, Yourdon Press
Test Web Applications with Selenium RC
Selenium is a testing framework used for automated Web application testing. Get to know Selenium Remote Control (Selenium RC), which allows you to build tests for different browsers to ensure your Web applications are of the highest quality.
TDD at the System Scale
System tests have the reputation of being slow (not entirely avoidable, I admit), difficult to automate reliably and difficult to diagnose when they fail. However, I find that many teams follow a TDD process at the unit-level, but do post-hoc testing at the system level, and so don’t use system tests as a source of design feedback. This blog post shows how you should do TDD at the system scale.
Test Driven .NET Development With FitNesse: Second Edition
This book is primarily aimed at .NET developers interested in starting with TDD and those who already practice unit testing and want to move beyond that into development driven by acceptance testing.
The Sine of Death by UI Test Automation
This post contains an interesting figure summarizing the test automation adoption curve.
Software Systems do not Work Well…
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. Dave Parnas, Communications of the ACM (33, 6 June 1990 p.636)