June 29, 2009 3:16 PM
Posted by: MichaelDKelly
"Teach yourself software testing",
Cast,
CAST 2009,
James Bach,
Programming,
self taught computer testing,
tester,
testing,
text-drivenAt this year's Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST), taking place July 13-16th in Colorado Springs, James Bach will be presenting a tutorial on self-education for software testers. The tutorial, titled "Teach YOURSELF Software Testing," is about teaching yourself testing,...
June 23, 2009 7:14 PM
Posted by: MichaelDKelly
Business leaders,
CardioNet,
Cast,
Development,
QA,
quality assurance,
software,
Software testing,
tech conference,
testersVeteran software testing and quality assurance pro Jean Ann Harrison will be presenting a software testing case study based on her experiences at a medical device study at this year's Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST), slated for July 13-16th in Colorado Springs.
In her...
June 22, 2009 7:06 PM
Posted by: MichaelDKelly
CAST 2009,
Ensuring Testing's Proper Place in the Organization,
Quality Software ManagementFor the previous three years, I was either an organizer of the Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST) or the President of the AST. So as you can imagine, I watched the conference closely. Last year, when we were able to announce Jerry Weinberg as the keynote speaker it was a...
June 22, 2009 7:05 PM
Posted by: MichaelDKelly
CAST 2009,
Doug Hoffman,
software quality assurance,
Software testingAt next month's Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) in Colorado Springs Doug Hoffman will call to question one of the most fundamental ideas in software testing: Do tests really pass or fail? I had the opportunity to talk with Hoffman about his conference session titled "Why...
June 22, 2009 4:48 PM
Posted by: MichaelDKelly
CAST 2009,
modeling scenarios and framework,
Programmers,
speakers at 2009 CAST conferenceFiona Charles will share the details of her scenario testing method at this year's Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST), which takes place July 13-16th in Colorado Springs. Charles has used this approach on several projects where test scenarios were designed based on models...
June 22, 2009 1:55 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
infrastructure,
IT landscape,
Recovery point objective,
Recovery Time Objective,
requirements-based,
Rick Vanover,
RPO,
RTOAt some point in time, we all have likely engaged with some level of requirements-based testing (RBT) or development. While RBT is generally a fundamental in software quality, there can be limitations and cons as described in this
June 12, 2009 8:13 PM
Posted by: Jan Stafford
applications,
Java,
Real-time JavaWhen you hit a key on your keyboard, the delay before the letter appear on your screen is mildly annoying. When you’re in a warship under enemy attack, having a delay before new radar information shows up would be deadly. In a nutshell, that’s the difference between general-purpose and...
June 12, 2009 3:34 PM
Posted by: Jan Stafford
Eric Bruno,
Java,
Java FX,
Jim Clarke,
Jim Conors,
RIA developmentI recently met and talked with authors Jim Clarke and Eric Bruno about JavaFX.. They co-wrote, with Jim Connors, the recently-released book on that subject, JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications. Clarke and Bruno explain how JavaFX...
June 12, 2009 3:06 PM
Posted by: Jan Stafford
Atlassian,
Cloud,
code review 101,
Java,
JavaOne,
Pete MooreIn an interview this week, Atlassian engineer/Nerd Herder, Pete Moore, told me that he got good news and bad news from software developers and engineers at JavaOne 2009 this year. The good news was that developers had moved beyond Code Review 101, but the down side was a lack of adoption of cloud...
