I have recently read a blog article titled, “testing sucks” by the charismatic industry guru, James Whittaker. The article gives an interesting and unique insight into the life of a testing professional. I am keen to see whether other testing professionals agree that this is a reasonable explanation for miserable testers.
If you have read the article, (if you haven’t you can find it here) what is your opinion? Has James Whittaker’s article struck a chord with you? Do you agree or disagree? I welcome your comments below...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Does software testing suck ?
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Testing applications on Windows 7 RC1
Testing in a box.............in a box?
Recently at nFocus, we had to test some applications out to ensure that they would operate correctly on Windows 7 for one of our clients. RC1 was out and in order to expidite the task we decided to use virtualisation instead of applying the release candidate to some of our hardware. Virtual PC seemed like a good choice and following Brian Kellers blog "Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1" (with a few tweaks for RC1 instead of the Beta) it was a breeze!
We managed to do our testing but interestingly, as an aside, some testing tools we used worked just fine out of the box on windows 7 RC1 too.
If your looking at doing something similar you might want to hold off (if you believe some of the rumor mills), Wzor put out some info, noting that the Windows 7 Release Candidate 2 is signed off and will be released on June 12th. It is expected that it will only be available to a few select groups, MSDN subscribers being one. Please feel free to apply appropriate levels of sodium to this :)
Recently at nFocus, we had to test some applications out to ensure that they would operate correctly on Windows 7 for one of our clients. RC1 was out and in order to expidite the task we decided to use virtualisation instead of applying the release candidate to some of our hardware. Virtual PC seemed like a good choice and following Brian Kellers blog "Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1" (with a few tweaks for RC1 instead of the Beta) it was a breeze!
We managed to do our testing but interestingly, as an aside, some testing tools we used worked just fine out of the box on windows 7 RC1 too.
If your looking at doing something similar you might want to hold off (if you believe some of the rumor mills), Wzor put out some info, noting that the Windows 7 Release Candidate 2 is signed off and will be released on June 12th. It is expected that it will only be available to a few select groups, MSDN subscribers being one. Please feel free to apply appropriate levels of sodium to this :)
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