Static Methods

Static MethodsStatic methods are procedural in nature and they have no place in OO world. I can already hear the screams, so let me explain why, but first we need to agree that global variables and state is evil. If you agree with previous statement than for a static method to do something interesting it needs to have some arguments, otherwise it will always return a constant. Call to a staticMethod() must always return...

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Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing: What You Really Need to Know

 Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing: What You Really Need to Know If you spend any time in forums in which new testers can be found, it won’t be long before someone asks “”What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?” “What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?” is a unicorn question. That is, it’s a question that shouldn’t be answered except perhaps by...

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ScriptCover makes Javascript coverage analysis easy

By Ekaterina Kamenskaya, Software Engineer in Test, YouTube Today we introduce the Javascript coverage analysis tool, ScriptCover. It is a Chrome extension that provides line-by-line Javascript code coverage statistics for web pages in real time without any user modifications required. The results are collected both when the page...

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Unleash the QualityBots

Are you a website developer that wants to know if Chrome updates will break your website before they reach the stable release channel? Have you ever wished there was an easy way to compare how your website appears in all channels of Chrome? Now you can! QualityBots is a new open source tool for web developers created by the Web Testing...

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The tester who tested his testers

There were two multimedia products under test, lets say Bino and Nino. A tester was testing both of them. Bino was started earlier than Nino and had reached a state where the subjective quality of the product was good enough. Bino on reaching a good enough state was made the benchmark and Nino's quality was tested against it. Bino was talked all over the company for its quality.Each time the tester tested a release for...

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Rapid answers to rapid fire situations a tester faces

All the testers I have spoke to (in India) have these issues in common -1. I have never got the release on planned time and my manager expects me to do a good job.2. When we are not given enough time and the customer finds a bug, the managers come running and question, "how did it slip?".3. I am getting no time to improve my skills as a tester, work is so much that I dont even get time to check my mails.4. I quit my previous...

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Excuses for testers when bugs are caught in later testing cycles/UAT/Production

In my experience, I have seen that unlike developers, testers are not much clever.  One of the biggest pain-point for testers is that whenever a bug is caught in UAT or caught in later stages then blame is unfairly put on testing teams. This further results into unfair yearly reviews and appraisals of testing teams. I have seen that in many mid size companies, less value is given to testing teams. Testing culture...

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The most challenging software testing quiz online

The most challenging software testing quiz online This quiz created by me challenges a tester to answer several common and uncommon questions. At the end those who finish the quiz get to know what prize they win. ( which means, there are a lot of prizes to be won) Last time I announced I would give free books - Lessons Learned in Software Testing and I did give it to those testers who proved to me that they deserved...

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Truth about test plan document & test case document

Truth About Test Plan Documents 98% of test plan documents that are created are not updated, maintained or cared beyond sign off. The first 5 pages of a test plan document contains history that doesn't interest even those whose names are mentioned in it. Scope of testing section is the most funniest part of the whole document. Some times when testers report serious problems, some people cite it as out of scope. Hey,...

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