Archive for March, 2007

Test Driven Shell Script Development? Heck yes!

From Opensourcetesting.org News

shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit testing framework for shell scripts (eg. sh, bash) that is modeled after the JUnit framework. It is designed to make unit testing in shell as simple as possible.

What are QA, QC, and Test Engineering?

I’ve writen about being an SDET before and now here is Google’s take on the definitions of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) and the roll they call Test Engineering.

Here at Google, we tend to take a third approach that we call Test Engineering. We look at this as a bridge between the [...]

Can you hear the cries of the carrots in your daily stand-up?

Good stand-ups will feel supportive. When people are knocked down every time they raise a problem, they will tend to stop raising problems. Beyond preventing removal of obstacles, a non-supportive stand-up works against team dynamics. The stand-up instead becomes a ritual that team members dread [LaPlante, 2003]. It’s Not Just [...]

Testing heuristics: MTT

From PowerShell for Testers:

Lately testing people have been talking about testing heuristics - tips, techniques, tactics, strategies for testing something. I have one that I call MTT. M - Mission T - Targets T - Tests

What? Wearing a yellow dragon costume isn’t normal?

The first time I met Jeremy was just after he walked through the door at Northern Voice. I think the first words out of my mouth were “Whoa, what is up with that dude?” This, of course, was because he showed up in a yellow dragon costume, complete with hat and tail. [...]