The highlight of the week in software testing has to be Jonathan Kohl’s presentation and workshop on mobile testing courtesy of Agile Vancouver.
I couldn’t go myself, so you can be sure that I’ll be adding the video from the event here just as soon as I’ve seen they put it up and I’ve seen it, but we did send a couple of people who were both very pleased with the talk.
Tweet of the Week
“Good thing we spent 6mo on scalability pre-launch. The thing went hyper-viral day one, just as planned.” – nobody ever.
— Startup L. Jackson (@StartupLJackson) January 21, 2013
Recommended Reading
A long, but interesting, account of software testing at Google, efforts to improve code quality and the politics that get in the way
An easy to understand explanation of garbage collection algorithms.
Why Pivots Don’t Do Their Best Work at Night
Pivotal Labs’ response to an article at Business Insider about why programmers do their best work late at night also includes a hidden benefit of test driven development.
BDD applied to Javascript RIAs
Behaviour driven development practices applied to a Javascript rich Internet application using a ports and adapters architecture.
Fundamentals of Load Testing Execution
The fundamentals of load testing is quite a large subject when you take in to account the determining acceptance criteria, executing the tests and analyzing the results. This article focuses just on execution.
“Cancel all the bug triage meetings; spend the time instead preventing and fixing defects.”
Test Driven Development (TDD) Traps
A tale of test driven development gone wrong.
YouTube
The first in a series of videos on test automation by Telerik evangelist, Jim Holmes, titled Getting Started with Web Automation: Automation Basics. He demonstrates test automation using Test Studio in a way that is accessible for testers and developers without any test automation experience.
