November 2004 Entries
I appeared for CSTE on September 18th and after a wait of 10 weeks, finally got the snail mail from QAI with the CSTE Result. Cleared the exam with 83%, was somewhat little disappointed with the scores in Objective parts. Anyway, it’s a good feeling to be certified ;-)
Check out this write up by 'Leslie Segal', President, Testware Associates, Inc.,on 'Key Considerations in Performance Testing': http://www.testwareinc.com/... • Determine the performance testing objectives • Set pass/fail criteria• Establish profiles of expected real users• Determine the proper ratio of real to virtual users• Create test scripts and executed• Gather and correlate the data from the test...
What makes a good tester Check out the following writeups by experts on the topic 'what makes a good tester': By Boris Beizer: http://www.sqatester.com/qa... Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.c... Harry Robinson: http://www.stickyminds.com/... Rob Davis: http://www.robdavispe.com/f... By Michael Hunter: http://blogs.msdn.com/micah...
1. Is this mistake somewhere else also?2. What next bug is hidden behind this one?3. What should I do to prevent bugs like this? Check out this great writeup from Tom Van Vleck: http://www.multicians.org/t
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Definition: In mathematics, an idempotent element (or simply an idempotent) is something that when multiplied by (for a function, composed with) itself, gives itself as a result. For example, the only two real numbers which are idempotent under multiplication are 0 and 1. Formally, if S is a set with a binary operation * on it, then an element s of S is said to be idempotent (with respect to *) if s * s = s. Computer science: In computing, idempotence...
Here is an introduction to Rapid Software Testing by Chris Brown, Gary Cobb, Robert Culbertson. (This is a sample Chapter courtesy of Prentice Hall PTR.) http://www.phptr.com/articl
Interesting! Check this out: http://blameindiawatch.blog... keeps a track on ‘Blame India’ news :-)