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Do you document your test cases?

October 31, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 1 Comment

We are debating the value of software testing standards right now on the context-driven testing list. Here’s my latest post … >and by the same token writing test cases doesn’t […]

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Microsoft Tester Center

October 29, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

Microsoft announced it’s new ‘community’ for software testers last week at STARWest. The ‘community’ (which is a fancy name for a combination webzine, blog, and forums) is located here. Cynical […]

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Software Fiction

September 26, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Programming, Testing / 1 Comment

Jon Bruce continues to improve as a writer. He’s got an excellent series going on now called “Startup” – click here, scroll to the bottom of Startup, and read upwards. […]

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What’s a "Test Framework"?

September 18, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 5 Comments

Shrini Kulkarni has been after me to define my terms; after all, I keep writing about “Test Frameworks” but I’ve never defined the term. Wikipedia defines a framework as “A […]

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GTAC – Bonus Section #2:

August 27, 2007 / Matt Heusser / GTAC, GTAC 2007, Strategy, Testing / No Comments

We have seen a wonderfully isolated, encapsulated, poly-morphed, design-patterned, auto-tested, mocked app … – That could have been written procedurally in 500 Source Lines of Code– But now consists of […]

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GTAC – Bonus Section #1

August 24, 2007 / Matt Heusser / GTAC, GTAC 2007, Strategy, Testing / 1 Comment

Our GTAC Talk evolved over an extended period, and had a lot more material than the time allowed. So, just for you Creative Chaos readers, I’m going to blog our […]

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Why GTAC is different

August 24, 2007 / Matt Heusser / GTAC, GTAC 2007, Strategy, Testing / No Comments

As I write this, it’s 3:36PM on August 23rd, and I am sitting at the New York Google Office, just after co-presenting a talk on interaction-based testing. I am sick. […]

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Testing the Stapler

August 16, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 1 Comment

To answer the Stapler question, Mike Kelly referred me to this post where he had 144 tests. Yes, 144 tests, and, offhand, they look to be real, valid tests. To […]

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Test Automation – IV

August 3, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Strategy, Testing, Tools / 4 Comments

Right now one of the “louder voices in the room” for test automation is the “Agile” test automation voice. And by that I mean something very specific – that you […]

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Test Automation – IV

July 14, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Strategy, Testing, Tools / No Comments

Reads of Creation Chaos has left some amazing comments on the previous post; if you haven’t read them, please take a gander. First off, I agree with Shrini that “regression” […]

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Test Automation – III

July 12, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Strategy, Testing, Tools / 3 Comments

Charlie Audritsh asked: “I take you to mean what I’d refer to as a regression test. A test of mostly the old functionality that maybe did not change much. So […]

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Test Automation – II

July 10, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Strategy, Testing, Tools / No Comments

I got some great comments yesterday – Charlie and Scott made some solid points, and they are points that I will address. However, before I get there, I would like […]

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Test Automation – I

July 10, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Strategy, Testing, Tools / 2 Comments

(Taken From a recent post fo the software-testing email list) It always amazes me when strong people come out and say publicly something that I have been mulling on for […]

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GreenBar is the New Black

July 5, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

(Or: My Code Odyssey) So, I had a big, nasty codebase. No current documented requirements; a few scattered historical documents. New Requirements of: “Make it to what it did before, […]

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Dev to Tester Communications

June 8, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

Last week I posted the comic where the tester says “Hey dev guy, your tests suck! They aren’t actually testing anything!” And the dev guy replies something like “You’re just […]

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Tester/Dev Communications

May 22, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 3 Comments

The space between computer programmers and testers is shrinking – but there are still a lot of communications problems. For example, when I first met Harry Robinson, he was working […]

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New Article on DDJ.com …

May 20, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

This week I published Are Tests Requirements? which is inspired by a discussion on the agile-testing list. As always, I appreciate any feedback.

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Limericks

May 14, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

Not only did I actually get a reader from Limerick, Ireland, last month, but May 12th was National Limerick day. In honor of that Jeff Fry made a series of […]

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AST has membership cards!

March 21, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 2 Comments

In an email last week, I jokingly referred to myself as a “Card carrying member of the Association for Software Testing.” I got a membership card in the mail the […]

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Testing Challenge – II

March 21, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

By far, my Testing Challenge post has been my most popular; traffic literally doubled even though I slowed down my amount of blogging. Despite the increase in traffic, I got […]

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