What is versioning? The practice of documenting that a change has occurred so that all team members are aware of the most up to date information. How to version your application: 1.2.14 The 1 above represents a major release of new functionality. Pretend this is your first house that you have built. The .2 above … Continue reading
Reverse Engineering (The Beginning Stages) What is reverse engineering? Visualize walking into any company that has a ten year old application that they still use today and was written in Visual Basic 6 code. They want the application upgraded to .NET code. You have zero requirements, zero documentation about the application, and the current VB … Continue reading
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How many times have you heard your estimate is ambiguous? How do you validate your estimate? An estimate is bounced off the actual time testing really took by how many testing hours were logged. Actual Time logged / Estimate x 100 = XYZ% Where if XYZ% is <=69% then the estimate given was to large … Continue reading
Please download the following: Estimate Template and use with the instructions below to create your estimate. Introduction: Many have searched the World Wide Web (WWW) looking for good software testing estimate templates and have not found one. I did the same thing and then I decided to create my own estimating template. I have been … Continue reading
A use case is NOT a user story. Let me just repeat that one more time. A use case is NOT a user story. Many will confuse the two, they are similar, but a use case has all the extra information that could ever be thought of and a user story is just that, a … Continue reading
It doesn’t matter how your company is run, this percentage can still be obtained. You could be running your IT (Information Technology) department agile, scrum, straight SDLC (software development life cycle) with rules and regulations, you could have Unit, QA, or UAT (User Acceptance Testing). It does not matter, you just work with what you … Continue reading
Alpha Testers In order to be an Alpha tester, somewhere, somehow you have to have some OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) in your blood. Some people do not even know they have OCD, so let me break down a few of my OCD tendencies and maybe you can relate and wake up to the realization that … Continue reading
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