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Short links for January 10th

del.icio.us — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:01:28 +0000

These are my links for January 10th:

PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy – Cheesecake – Trac – Collection of python testing tools with links and explanations.

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Short links for June 17th

del.icio.us — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:01:11 +0000

These are my links for June 17th:

James Shore: Dependency Injection Demystified – James explains dependency injection in simple words.
This is easy to understand for almost everybody

Short links for April 27th

del.icio.us — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:01:36 +0000

These are my links for April 27th:

Workroom Productions: Test Strategy, Quality Assurance – Website of James Lyndsay. James works as test consultant. He has a decent experience and knowledge of explorative testing. He gives talks and workshops at these topics.
At the webpage you can find some paper and thougts also.

Short links for February 4th

del.icio.us — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:03:40 +0000

These are my links for February 4th:

A quick round up of free Software Testing related pdf magazines – List of Software Testing related pdf magazines.
ExpressionEngine to WordPress – Here are two scripts to export a expression engine database and import it into wordpress.
Umbrello UML Modeller – UML Moddelling tool for KDE.
It should also run with KDE 4 Mac.
.: KDE 4 Mac :. – KDE 4 on Mac OS.
Currently just as a "technology preview", but it should reach a stable status with KDE 4.1.0.
Installation can be done by downloading a few packages, but also with Macports.
After that there should be many KDE application available, which can be compiled for MacOS X.
git-svn is a gateway drug – Another short introduction how to use git together with svn repositories.
Howto use Git and svn together – Short introduction how to use git and svn together by Flavio Castelli.
An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters – How to use git (git-svn) together with subversion (svn) or svk.
You can use git to connect to a central, maybe remote, subversion repository.
Git – SVN Crash Course – Tutorial how to use git for svn users.

Bookmarks for November 28th

del.icio.us — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:03:37 +0000

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Bookmarks for November 6th

del.icio.us — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:01:54 +0000

These are my links for November 6th:

ggcov: A Practical Guide To Making Your Test Suite Suck Less – Slides for using ggcov in testing
Linux-Unix-Programmierung : Analyse mit GCOV –

Bookmarks for October 10th

del.icio.us — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:03:33 +0000

These are my links for October 10th:

Code Coverage using gcov – This is a short article describing how to use gcov with cppunit in general.

Bookmarks for October 8th

del.icio.us — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:39 +0000

These are my links for October 8th:

BS7925-2 Standard for Software Component Testing – Standard for Software Component Testing from the British Computer Society Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST).
Objective of the standard is to enable measurement and comparison of software component testing to improve the quality of software testing and the software products themselves.

Bookmarks for October 2nd

del.icio.us — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:49 +0000

These are my links for October 2nd:

TML: an XML-based test modeling language – This paper introduces a XML-based and test tool independent test modeling language that support creating general test cases. The language separates test logic from test tool specific code. Thus, a test case only has to be specified once and can then be executed by several test tools.

Some ressources about Testing

Stefan Weigand — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:17:48 +0000

Today I came across some ressources about Testing.

First there is the Google Testing Blog. It exist in German and in English; but at first glance it seems to me that the english version has much more content.

I read one of the newer articles and digged deeper into the blog of its author Miško Hevery. He writes about Singletons: Singletons are Pathological Liars. Quite a rant calling Singleton an anti-pattern. He goes into more detail in two additional articles trying to explaining why he thinks like that – but still I don’t get it – as like many other (read the comments). Maybe I need some more time to think about it.

But, nevertheless, these blogs seems to be interesting ressources and are worth further reading.

Why think about test early? – The Chicken Test

Stefan Weigand — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:01:22 +0000

One of the irrevocable paradigms in (software) testing is: test early

There are many detail explanations about this, but nothing is as vivid as the Chicken Test Story:

When Rolls Royce was developing the RB211 Engine they came insolvent in 1971. And the simple reason for this was, that they had to spend too much money in development because they tested too late. The test which finally broke the engine was a rather simple test: The Chicken Test; A so called Birdstrike Simulator throws a bird, in this case a chicken, at high speed into the aircraft engine. This is a very common real life scenario for a plane especially at take off. I think, this test is still a requirement for certification by FAA. But back to the RB211: For this engine this test was a desaster. The titanium blades were shattered into pieces by the flying chicken.

So if the requirement of robustness of the blades would have been defined and tested early in development, a redesign could have been done much earlier and the cost of this redesign would have been much lower.

So if you think early about what could happen in late tests and how you could test this also earlier, you would probably find the need for additional requirements or refinement of existing requirement. And as you have better requirement then your development will get automagically better.

Even if you won’t see any test failing during test execution, the impact of testing on requirements and development and therefor on the end product and your budget can be huge.

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