“More than machinery, we need humanity.” Charlie Chaplin. What does a quote from a 1940s movie starring Charlie Chaplin have to do with testing and well performing testing centres of excellence (TCE)? More than one would think according to Archie Roboostoff. In fact, some would say it forms the core of some of the best [...]

People with Aspergers Syndrome and autism often have a number of attributes that can make them highly suited to software testing tasks. Peter Macdonald gets some help from his colleagues to outline what skills an ‘aspie’ can bring to bear on software testing. Why is it often a good idea to employ people with Aspergers [...]

With CERN once again in the news and the possibility of particles travelling faster than light making the scientific community reassess its very foundations, Matt Bailey speaks to Axel Naumann, part of the team of physicists that developed the crucial number-crunching software at the heart of the organisation, about how static analysis is improving its [...]

Howard Wiener, director of Professional Services at Direct Computer Resources says that answering the 12 questions he poses in this feature can help your organisation examine the challenges its faces when handling sensitive data during software testing. Comedian Groucho Marx may be best recognised for saying that he would “refuse to join any club that [...]

Senior testing consultant Nishant Verma pits the QTP testing tool against his own Agile tool, Twist and finds that QTP could do better. I am a tester in the team that is developing a testing tool called Twist. In past I have worked on variety of tools including QTP, Loadrunner, SoapUI, etc. I remember using [...]

Software test automation was once heralded as a saviour within IS development teams and was supposed to ease the pains of software testing. It promised to release the QA or testing bottleneck…but in reality, it hasn’t! As painful as test automation was to implement, the use of traditional testing tools means that a specialist workforce [...]

Self-styled ‘mighty tester’ Devyani Borade’s motto is “The test is mightier than the code!” Here she lists ten all too familiar tester/developer conflict situations and shows how a little tact and diplomacy is better for you and the business. “A degree of tact and diplomacy is an essential tool in the tester’s arsenal. Testers must [...]

Peter Varhol of Seapine Software explains how the company’s TestTrack is helping Fitness First to align development and testing with an Agile approach. Becoming agile in response to the needs of the organisation is easier said than done. With the right plan and software tools to support it, software project teams can adopt enough Agile [...]

The chance to reduce testing time and deploy personnel to areas where they can add more value is a tempting proposition. Matt Bailey spoke to Green Hat chief technology officer Peter  Cole about the next generation of highly productive test automation tools. Green Hat has been providing testing tools for the last ten years.  It [...]

By providing a compatible mainframe testing environment away from the mainframe, Micro Focus is revolutionising how mainframe applications are tested and how key IT services are delivered. For many organizations the natural home for their critical and pervasive applications is the mainframe. After all, mainframes are optimised for scalable, resilient production performance. So when banking [...]