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The Future of Testing: Moving Testing Forward

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

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What information do you use to help you test your software? Specs? User manuals? Prior (or competing) versions? Source code? Protocol analyzers? Process monitors? Does the information help? Is it straightforward to use?

Information is at the core of everything we do as software testers. The better our information about what the software is supposed to be doing and how it is doing it, the better our testing can actually be. I find it unacceptable that testers get so little information and none of it is specifically designed to make it easier to do our jobs. I am happy to say that this is changing … rapidly … and that in the near term we will certainly be gifted with the right information at the right time.
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The Future of Testing: Virtualization

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

thefutureoftestingvirtualizationVirtualization has great potential to empower the ‘crowd’ for crowdsourcing. Specialized test suites, test harnesses, test tools can be one-clicked into virtual machines that can be used by anyone, anywhere. Just as software developers of today can reuse the code of their colleagues and forebears, so too will the testers in the crowd be able to reuse test suites and test tools. And just as that reuse has increased the range of applications that a given developer can reliably build, it will increase the types of applications that a tester can test. Virtualization enables the immediate reuse of complicated and sophisticated test infrastructures.

Conveniently, virtualization does the same favor for testers with respect to user environments. A user can simply one-click their entire computer into a virtual machine and make it available to testers via the cloud. If we can store all the videos in the world for instant viewing by anyone, anywhere then why can’t we do the same with virtual user environments? Virtualization technology is already there (in the case of PCs) or nearly there (in the case of mobile or other specialized environments). We simply need to apply it to the testing problem.
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The Future of Testing: Testsourcing

Monday, September 6th, 2010

In the beginning, very little testing was outsourced. Testing was performed by insourcers, people employed within the same organization that wrote the software. Developers and testers (often the same people performing both tasks) worked side by side to get the software written, tested and out the door.

The Future of Testing: Testsourcing

The first two generations of testing look like this:

(1st) Insourcing Provide tools
(2nd) Outsourcing Provide testing (which subsumes the tools)

The next logical step in the evolution of testing is for vendors to provide testers and this is exactly the era we’ve entered with crowdsourcing.
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Software Testing Documentation: Samples from Softheme

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

We have noticed that there really is not much information you can find on the Internet about testing documentation businesses use to accompany their testing services. This may be a little bit frustrating for those interested in testing. That is why we decided that the testing documentation that we at Softheme use in our software testing activities might be of interest to you. So, we would like to bring the following samples of testing docs to your attention, namely:

  • the checklist for testing of internet applications
  • performance testing results report
  • the template for results of marketing emails testing

You can find these documents in .pdf format below. If you wish to have some of these documents in .doc or .xls formats, please, don’t be shy to drop us an email at info(at)softheme.com with the corresponding request and we will send you the documents you need.

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