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Andre King & I presented “Never Test Alone” at TASSQ in Toronto yesterday evening. After the presentation Joe Larizza (TASSQ President) addressed the group saying that with the economy businesses are looking for ways to reduce costs. Outsourcing testing will be one of them. People need to be proactive in finding ways to reduce cost and produce ...

Bruce Johnson and I attended the KWSQA Conference yesterday in Waterloo. We teamed up doing a session at the conference. Our topic was ''Never Test Alone - the Route to Success''. Bruce wowed the crowd with a demo of his test-driven development skills and the Microsoft Research tool Pex (Automated Whitebox .Net testing tool). As we promised the ...

There are not many conferences on Software Testing that are held here in Canada, well this year a big one is. For the first time ever CAST 2008 conference is being held right here in Toronto.  The show theme is Beyond the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Software Testing. Mark you calendar for July 14-16th. If your interested ...

Tuesday Jan. 29th, 2008 at the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (TASSQ) meeting join myself and Barry Gervin for an evening presentation on VSTS Edition for Testers. Click the link for details about this presentation including a link for registration. Hope to see you there ... Testa

Microsoft has launched a new community for software testers to share and learn about everything testing. There are and will be videos, articles, and blogs all dealing with software testing. Join the Software Testing Discussion Forum and participate through out conversations. Check it out -> Microsoft Tester ...

Surfing the internet can be mind boggling when searching industry terminology. Try searching terminology for testing that a solution is able to handle its data obligations while conducting itself in a suitable fashion. How do you like those words?   Terminology I found and have experienced:   Stress Testing Load ...

I have blogged about testing early, getting your test team involved at the start of the project one item I neglected to include was Load testing. So let’s catch up and talk about when load testing should be done. A lot of projects wait till either UAT or just prior to implementation to perform Load testing, does that make sense? What is Load ...

Every test you create whether it is Unit, Manual, Web or Load can have work items associated to them. If you’re working with the MSF Agile process the work item Scenario is a detailed requirement, a bug is a work item, risk is documented in a work item. You have the ability to associate work item(s) to your tests.  Remember that work items ...

We've heard of code coverage which is normally used by the developer's to verify how much of the code they've written was tested by their Unit tests. Microsoft took it a step beyond developers and gave the QA the ability to run code coverage against our tests. You can with any test type including Manual Tests have ...

ObjectSharp is now offering a Team System Quality Assurance Best Practices course of which I blogged about a few blogs ago.    The course and labs cover the following topics:   QA Role in the Software Development Life Cycle Overview of Visual Studio Team System Team Communications Working with Visual Studio Version ...