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18 Oct 2011

Bug Magnet (iOS 5 Edition)

I warned you all this might become a regular feature and here it is, following on from the popular 'Bug Magnet - TweetDeck Edition' (which got a good 30+ retweets thanks to a couple of bots :D) here is the new iOS 5 edition. Last ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: iOS , Newsstand , Testing , Bug Magnet
30 Sep 2011

Bug Magnet (TweetDeck Edition)

A couple of months ago now I wrote a blog post on the subject of ‘Being a tester outside of the workplace’ and I suppose you could consider this a continuation of that post. All the examples I gave before were things that I found ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , TweetDeck , SQA , Bug Magnet
22 Sep 2011
Branching and Gated Check Ins (A Testers Perspective)
A little background might be required here. The way our development process is set up we have multiple branches of our apps in TFS:
1. The ‘Trunk’ branch – which the developers are constantly updating.
2. The ‘UAT’ branch – where the developers merge their changes down to when ...
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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Gated Check In , TFS
29 Aug 2011

Context that gives bugs severity

When it comes to most bugs its fairly easy to gauge exactly how severe they might be. For example an E-Commerce website that does not allow you to add any items to your shopping basket is clearly a critical bug where as a spelling mistake ranks much ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: 11plus , Testing , QA , Bugs
25 Aug 2011

Taking Positives From Test Metrics

It has been long established that gauging a Testers work based on the amount of bugs they discover/report is about as useless as gauging a Developers work based on the amount of lines of code they write. One tester might discover 20 non-critical bugs and another might ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Metrics
19 Aug 2011

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Yes, you read that right)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal (Roman Poet) Roughly translated to “Who will guard the guards themselves?”. This has been used in many a context over the years; ranging from a description of corrupt politicians to a key concept in the bestselling novel by author Dan ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Tip
12 Aug 2011

Software Testing Vs Quality Assurance

Once you are fresh out of University a common question you will typically be asked by family and friends is "What you are working as?". This is a simple question to answer for most; Teacher, Accountant, Lawyer. For me confusion is derived from the fact that I ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Quality
13 Jul 2011

The Best Bug Report .... EVER!

“What information should I include in my bug report?” This is a question that I frequently see floating around on software testing forums and is a typically asked by people who are still relatively new to testing. I always found the motives behind asking this question ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , Tip , Bug Reports
06 Jul 2011

Testing Priorities

“All we have to decide is what to do with time that is given to us” -J.R.R. Tolkien You might have thought these simple words of wisdom were from some testing guru but no; they are the words of Lord of the Rings ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , Tip , Quality
29 Jun 2011
Testing Outside of the Workplace
Recently I started to notice that my role as a tester extends beyond that of the work place. A couple of examples of this include:
- Using the self service checkouts in Tesco and trying to control my urge to try and break the regular operating procedure and ...
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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: bespoke web applications , ironspeed , Testing , Quality

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