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November 5, 2014

Tips for staying happy and sane while testing software - Tip #1

Realise that testing the quality of something and making decisions about the quality of something are totally different things. Don’t get upset if someone goes through your precious bug database setting all your bugs to WNF (‘will not fix’). Novice testers can struggle with accepting this concept. They tend to moan a lot, develop a negative attitude and start mumbling nonsense like ‘what is the point of writing bugs if they won’t fix them’.

Categories: [testing]
November 2, 2014

How many tests could a tester test if a tester could test Tetris?

Given that games and software testing are two of my favourite things it was only a matter of time before I stumbled upon a game that claims to “test your testing skills”. I know what you’re thinking, who would even try make a game about testing a game? I’m really not making this up, it exists. Here is the link if you don’t believe me. Software that tells someone how good a job they are doing of testing the software - this was too good to miss.

Categories: [testing]
November 1, 2014

Scary Pumpkin

The scariest pumpkin I’ve seen this Halloween. This post was originally published on my software testing blog Mega Ultra Happy Software Testing Fun time.

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November 1, 2014

The Essense of Testing

For some reason, the world of software testing is a minefield when it comes to terminology. The International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTEQ) currently has a 50 page pdf document explaining testing terminology which can be downloaded from their website. When I first learnt how to test computer games I was not taken to one side and told to memorise any of these terms before I could start testing. I’m fairly certain that someone with zero experience of testing software could learn all the these terms, but even once they knew the lingo this probably would not enable them to perform meaningful tests.

Categories: [testing]
November 1, 2014

Test Post 1

This is a test (did you really think it would be anything else?). This post was originally published on my software testing blog Mega Ultra Happy Software Testing Fun time.

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