Efficient management of resources is in particular a considerable challenge for network and communications testing, especially in large or distributed testing labs. Eitan Lavie, director of technologies at QualiSystems, explains the benefits of an automated resource management system. For network equipment manufacturers and service providers, network testing is a mission-critical, multifaceted task that is essential [...]

It’s high time our cumbersome monolithic operating systems offered increased agility, enhanced security and lower support costs. Steve Harris, senior director for Data Centre Solutions at Novell puts the case for customisation. For far too long, users have been bogged down with cumbersome operating systems (OS). Mass customisation—the process of customising a product to meet [...]

A weekend spent as a volunteer on a construction project has resonances with testing for Dave Whalen. Who always has a plan! My wife’s boss bought a small two-bedroom house just west of Denver. He wanted to add to the house and recruited volunteers from his employees, their spouses and kids. A ‘weekend project’ I [...]

A strategy that puts the user in control at the centre of things is, according to Zabisco director Hammad Khan, the principal benefit of a user-centred approach. Have a conversation with almost anybody and most would agree that making your end-users perspective a leading factor in how you approach your business makes sense. So why [...]

According to Keith Braithwaite, principle consultant with Zuhlke Engineering, much of the routine checking that makes up the bulk of testing is ripe for automation, freeing up testers for more important, high-value work. To obtain the highest confidence in a software system at reasonable cost, in terms of correctness and robustness, that system must be [...]

Mike Smith, managing director of Testing Solutions Group explains how Learntesting online training is helping to build a common language for testing. Learntesting was established as a separately branded online training division of specialist IT consulting firm Testing Solutions Group (TSG) in 2003. TSG is one of the largest providers of bespoke and certificated software [...]

Neil Pandit of Sopra Group, winner of the Logica Triple Star Award for Innovation at the EuroSTAR 2009 conference, gives us a taste of his winning presentation where he described the benefits of a visual approach to risk-based integration testing. With reduced budgets, resources and a need to deliver projects faster, risk-based testing (RBT) is [...]

It’s different for girls according to the song. Lead QA Devon Smith explains the challenges and benefits of being the only female in the testing department.  “Oh! You’re a girl!” said a remote member of a QA team I worked for during our first phone call. “I didn’t expect that.” Taking people by surprise is [...]

Automated testing tools can save time and resources in the rapidly expanding agile world. TestPlant senior systems engineer Allen J Fisher looks into the future of testing tools. Test automation is not going away. The faster turnaround of the web and the rapid development of new technologies such as the Apple iPad and Google’s NexusOne [...]

Testing heretic Dave Whalen, president and senior software entomologist (“Bugs are my life!”) at Whalen Technologies takes on the religious cult of Agile and says the evangelists are really starting to get to him. OK, before you start the hate mail or roll the pillory out into the town square, maybe hate is too strong [...]