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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Best Practice in any project using any tool is involving the QA Team, the project community at the beginning of the project planning stage. I've blogged about this previously but now I'd like to share how the QA Team can help and what they would be doing.   During project planning the QA Mgr and/or Lead should be involved so that during ...

Duration: 3 days Description: This 3 day hands-on class will equip students with the techniques and best practices for using Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers and Team Foundation Server to manage the quality of software within the development life cycle. This course is intended for Software Quality Assurance Professionals (a.k.a. “Testers, ...

I am seeing alot of talk about what's going to happen to the QA department with TDD - good news - it's going to be better - you might learn some new skills - your going to help development (it's a whole new relationship) - your no longer doing nitty gritty testing - start by reading as much as you can about TDD and the process get a head start ...