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January 15, 2017

Foreign Currency Trading Heuristic Testing Cheat Sheet

Happy New Year everyone! For the last 18 months I have been testing software designed to trade foreign currency, known as FX or Forex trading software. I consider myself lucky as I joined the project on day one which enabled me to learn a lot about testing trading systems. Challenges Financial software, including trading applications, can be some of the most incredibly difficult complex applications to test because they contain many challenges such as:

Categories: [testing]
November 9, 2016

Deconstructing Test Bash with R - Twitter Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Recently I attended a software testing conference held in Manchester. While I was at the conference I had a conversation with Andrew Morton (@TestingChef) about Twitter. Andrew told me he had a theory that at conferences people tweeted more in the morning than in the afternoon. As an active Tweeter and passionate R user I thought it would be interesting to try collect some real data, take a look and see what was happening.

Categories: [testing]
Tags: [data-science r-stats]
November 4, 2016

I Did It I Gave My Talk

This is a follow up on [my earlier post] (http://testingfuntime.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/learning-to-talk-finding-your-voice-and.html) about learning how to give a technical talk. I did it! I gave my talk! The feeling of euphoria afterwards was overwhelming and I think I might still be buzzing from the experience. I wanted to write a mini blog post to say a massive THANKYOU to everyone that came along to the Newcastle Testing meet up on 1st November. It was good to see a mix of both familiar and new faces.

Categories: [testing]
Tags: [public-speaking]
October 25, 2016

Test Bash Manchester 2016

Usually Test Bash events in the UK are held in Brighton making them a bit inaccessible to people living in the North. However this changed on Friday 21st October when I was lucky enough to attend Test Bash Manchester, a software testing conference held at the Lowry in Salford Quays. Organised by Richard Bradshaw @friendlytester and Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry, this was the first time a Test Bash event had been held in the North West.

Categories: [testing]
Tags: [conferences]
August 3, 2016

Exploring Data - Creating Reactive Web Apps with R and Shiny

Back in May I taught myself a programming language called R so that I could solve the problem of analysing large amounts of data collected as part of a survey of software testers. After writing some R code to analyse the data from my survey and blogging about the findings I realised something. I was sharing my findings with other people mainly through static images, graphs and charts. I felt like there were a large number of combinations and queries that could be applied to the data and I wasn’t able to document all of them.

Categories: [development]
Tags: [data-science r-stats]
July 4, 2016

A Snapshot of Software Testers in 2016

Back in May I carried out a survey of Software Testers and I have been continuing to analyse these survey results. My previous blog post about the survey was well received and focused on experience in the workplace. One of the objectives I set out to achieve with the survey was to examine the backgrounds and experiences which have led testers to be where they are today. I wrote another R script to help me interpret the survey results data.

Categories: [testing]
Tags: [data-science]
June 5, 2016

A Study of Software Testers

Why is it really difficult to hire testers? A few months ago I found myself involved in a number of discussions not about testing, but about testers. All the conversations I had revolved around the following questions: Why is it difficult to hire testers? How do people actually become testers? Does anyone actually choose to be a tester or do they just fall into testing by accident? Is it possible to persuade computer science students to pick a testing career over development?

Categories: [testing]
Tags: [data-science r-stats]
March 9, 2016

The Lonely Tester's Survival Guide

Modern software testing has become agile Anyone that cares about making good software has moved away from the old waterfall ways of “throw it at QA when it’s finished”. One recent trend is to embed a single skilled tester within a small development team to test early, test often and add as much value as they possibly can. In the old days, before test automation was as common as it is today, large numbers of human testers were required to carry out large quantities of laborious repetitive checking.

Categories: [testing]
February 8, 2016

Data Mocking - A Way to Test the Untestable

Some of the biggest challenges when testing software can be getting the software into some very specific states. You want to test that the new error message works, but this message is only shown when something on the back-end breaks and the back-end has never broken before because it always “just works”. Maybe the software you have to test is powered by other people’s data, data that you have no direct control over and you really need to manipulate this data in order to perform your tests.

Categories: [testing]
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