Saturday, December 3, 2011

Stanford Univeristy free online courses

Stanford univeristy are offering are offering a number of free online courses.



To access them, click on the link below:
https://www.coursera.org/landing/hub.php

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Cartoon Tester

I'm a tester, I test, some days I enjoy testing. I follow a few testing blogs and when ever I can I add comments in test forums. I hope through the test cartoon blog, testers will understand something new about the craft of testing. You can contact me on cartoontesting@gmail.com

Cartoon Tester

Twitter

Came across twitter site and book. One of the questions posed was: What would you call a collection of testers. Post your comments here

Becoming a Tester

Becoming a Tester Downloads.

WWWWWH/KE (Everybody Loves Mnemonics.. Don't they)

A list of Testing Mnemonics with links to pages as to how they came about.

Software Testing Groups

The Software Testing Club
http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/groups

The Software Testing and Quality Assurance discussion site
http://www.qaforums.com/

Association For Software Testing
http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/

The Testing Planet
http://www.thetestingplanet.com/

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Selenium Open Source Functional automation Testing Tool

The link https://sites.google.com/site/softwaretestingbooks4u/selenium provides information on Selenium tests. There is also information on the TestNG website about Eclipse, IDEA, Maven, Ant, and Migration from JUnit.

Performance Testing and Loadrunner

The link https://sites.google.com/site/softwaretestingbooks4u/performance-testing-and-loadrunner provides links to pdfs on LoadRunner best practices, performance testing and a few on LoadRunner and Oracle.

Manual Testing & ISTQB Foundation and Advanced Levels

The link https://sites.google.com/site/softwaretestingbooks4u/manual-testing has a collection of links to information required to pass ISTQB exams. Download the book 'Introduction to Software Testing : A Testing Primer' By Nick Jenkins. Download ISTQB Exam papers,Tutorials, and ISTQB glossary.  
NOTE: Scroll down page to see them.

Test Automation Frameworks

The link http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm provides information on test automation frameworks, test strategy, test design, data driven automation frameworks, keyword driven automation frameworks and automation framework workflow.

MSDN Academic Alliance

For all your Microsoft Software (Office not inculded) needs - click here.

You do not have to burn disks if you see an iso file just right click and extract files or you can install magic iso that creates a virtual drive for iso files.
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-history.htm

Monday, October 24, 2011

Intellij and Junit Testing

I spent all day trying to fathom out how to install Intellij and java on usb key. After several reformattings and installation of various forms of JRE's and JDK's I was able to compile and run some junit testing on a script I found on the net. I will write-up a tutorial in the next couple of days as Ive got to get my last essay written up by Friday.

To get you started download this JRE and install to F:\java
Then download and install intellij community version from here to a folder of your choice.

When installed its time to configure intellij

go to the folder where you installed intellij and locate the bin folder. within that folder find idea.exe and run.
when the main screen loads select file and then program structure and a pop-window appears.

The word Project should be highlighted on the left hand side and if not select it.
On the right hand side you should see Project SDK and underneath that three boxes

Select New and then select jsdk option and another pop-up will appear. Go to your usb drive and select your java folder and click apply and close. You will now be able to run java programs from intellij.

Stage one over Stage two later on in the week

Friday, October 14, 2011

MySql and PHP tutorial

This is a little intro to connecting to a database with regular expression thrown in for good measure. The database name is dit and there is an sql file that you can copy for phpmyadmin

Files

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Webinar: Software Testing Careers

Software Testing Magazines

Posted by Kevin
  • Here are a list of Software Testing magazines I found today:




  • http://www.bcs.org/category/9265
  • The Specialist Group in Software Testing have an archive here of a magazine called the TESTER and they hold annual conferences 4 times a year in London.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Software Resources

The links below come under the control of the American Department of Homeland Security but provide a wealth of information such as tools, papers and books:

Another site with loads of resources including this book:

Webinar: Measure Quality and Quantify Reliability of Critical Software

From DACS(Data Analysis Centre for Software)

Measure Quality and Quantify Reliability of Critical Software from Data&AnalysisCenterForSoftware on Vimeo.

Webinar: Lessons Learned from Validating 60,000 pages of API Documentation

I just found this link to a webinar today at five our time for the following discussion

" In 2002, the US Department of Justice and EU regulators ordered Microsoft to publish documentation sufficient to allow third parties to interoperate with hundreds of its server and client programs. This webinar highlights the novel requirements engineering and model-based testing devised to validate the resulting 60,000 pages of API documentation. This process resulted in over 50,000 defect corrections. Lessons learned from this project can improve quality, reduce costs, and facilitate interoperability of any complex system." Its free to register for


Link HERE

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Dependency injection

Dependency injection (DI) is a design pattern in object-oriented computer programming whose purpose is to reduce the coupling between software components. It is similar to the factory method pattern. Frequently an object uses (depends on) work produced by another part of the system. With DI, the object does not need to know in advance about how the other part of the system works. Instead, the programmer provides (injects) the relevant system component in advance along with a contract that it will behave in a certain way.

http://code.google.com/p/roboguice/

Recommended by Alan Cooke.

Mock objects

In object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. A computer programmer typically creates a mock object to test the behavior of some other object, in much the same way that a car designer uses a crash test dummy to simulate the dynamic behavior of a human in vehicle impacts.

http://www.jmock.org/

Recommended by Alan Cooke.

Robotium

Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications. With the support of Robotium, test case developers can write function, system and acceptance test scenarios, spanning multiple Android activities.

http://code.google.com/p/robotium/

Recommended by Alan Cooke.

Play Framework

Check out the Play Framework that makes it easier to build Web applications with Java and Scala.

http://www.playframework.org/

Recommended by Alan Cooke.

Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter is open source software, a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Recomended by Alan Cooke.

Software Testing Tools Lists

Open Source Testing
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/

Software Quality Assurance Testing and Test Tool Resources
http://www.aptest.com/resources.html

Testing FAQs
http://www.testingfaqs.org/


Open Source Functional Testing Tools
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/functional.php

Top 10 Software Testing Blogs

1. James Bach’s Blog
http://www.satisfice.com/blog/

2. Creative Chaos (Matt Heusser) (*moved from Testing at the Edge of Chaos*)
http://xndev.blogspot.com/

3. Agile Testing (Grig Gheorghiu)
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/

4. Martinfowler.com
http://martinfowler.com/

5. Tester Tested! (Pradeep Soundararajan)
http://testertested.blogspot.com/

6. Testing Blog (Google Testing)
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

7. Cem Kaner’s Blog
http://kaner.com/

8. Miško Hevery
http://misko.hevery.com/

9. DevelopSense (Michael Bolton)
http://www.developsense.com/blog/

10. Sara Ford's Weblog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saraford/

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Top 100 Blogs here:
http://www.testingminded.com/2010/04/top-100-software-testing-blogs.html