SOFTWARE TESTING

My previous employer organised internal security training for QAs. As coming not from development background, they were good, but too tough for me. There is really good free resource on pluralsight.com by Troy Hunt " Hack yourself first ". It is declared for developers to deepen their knowledge of security. Myself I found it really cool as the author explains everything clearly with good examples.

Adding Gremlin  to my TODO list to install and explore. Colleague was happy about its non stop clicking abilities :)

In my company's techblog, mainly developers are contributing. While browsing across some links in the web, found that companies own pretty interesting tech blogs, sometimes filled with testing or QA relating stuff. Pretty cool to see one more resource to get insiders insights - how do others test, assure quality or handle challenges :) Some links from Linkedin , theGuardian   and Shutterstock  .

Over the last five years the supply of resources in the web slightly changed. Earlier there were only articles available. Therefore today I would spot the best knowlegde sharing form - webinars. Here is a link to StickyMinds webseminar s - higly recommend to find How Google Tests Software Presented by: James Whittaker, Test Engineering Director, Google. Won't regret! The material presented in webinar may be found in new book by three google co-authers: James A. Whittaker , Jason Arbon , Jeff Carollo

Have registered to utest.com a few years ago, although have not tried to test any of the projects there. Have you? What I found recently - the utest blog , full of interesting articles and interviews. Recommend.

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just an idea for reading - microsoft msdn site for testers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/lt-lt/testing/default(en-us).aspx

Yesterday recieved a gift from internet friend, the tester. He had passed the test, ISTQB, foundation level. Send me the book he used for practising - "sample exam questions ISTQB". "120 Practise questions and solutions" . Will take ISEB testing foundation exam. As foundation ISEB now relates to ISTQB foundation level, the book should help. Going to passs it until Christmas. Stil some time left for studying.

Sorry, english readers, this post only in lithuanian. Lietuviams testuotojams: nebloga kolegos nuoroda apie testuotojų sertifikavimąsi , išskirtinai ISEB, ne ISTQB.

at last the book came to our office. have read first part of it in the web, it is interesting. hope the situation will be better comparing to "testing practitioner"

found a ten year old presentation in the web - 'Software Testing.Past, Present, and Future' . from today's point of view - the whole presentation is already past. check and agree with me that the date mayb be changed to 2008. many things detailed there are still true.

General Testing Books Title: The Testing Practitioner Author: Erik van Veenendaal Publisher: UTN Publishers Publication Date: 2002 ISBN: 9789072194657 Title: Risk-based e-business Testing Authors: Paul Gerrard and Neil Thompson Publisher: Artech House Publication Date: 2002 ISBN: 1580533140 Title: Introducing Software Testing: A Practical Guide for Getting Started Author: Louise Tamres, Simon Mills Publisher: Pearson Education / Addison Wesley Publication Date: 2002 ISBN: 0201719746 or 9780201719741 Title: Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context Driven Approach Authors: Cem Kaner, James Bach and Bret Pettichord Publisher: John Wiley & Sons inc Publication Date: 2002 ISBN: 0471081124 Title: Software Testing: A Guide to the TMap Approach Authors: Martin Pol, Ruud Teunissen and Erik Van Veenendaal Publisher: Addison Wesley Publication Date: 2002 ISBN: 0201745712 or 9780201745719 Title: Systematic Software Testing Authors: Rick D. Craig and Stefan P. ...

„Suggest me what to learn for this field“ – how to change the career to software testing. There is huge amount information on the web. Search google or any other search engine for keywords – software testing, testing or tester. And here you are – hundreds of links, articles, posts, etc. The problem is – where to find the most concentrated material for studying. Articles, magazines and blogs are ok, especially on specific topic. To see the full view of software testing field you need a book or a few of them. Try British Computer Society software testing certifications learning material. The syllabuses and the list of references – standards and books should help to learn more (and a lot) in this field.

Made a discovery this morning. Was too lazy to read the book „the testing practitioner“, mentioned in previous post. And felt a desire to listen to something on Software testing topic. Yes! The internet! Of course – the YouTube site. Well, did not do the big research what to look at, took on the first - Google Tech Talks, December 9, 2005, Agile testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson. My impressions – first, it is very interesting to find out one more source of information. Feels like participating at the conference. Will come back for sure and do some more watching and listening the other day. The topic itself, agile testing. Am not familiar with it, and especially after the teaching feel it is something different I am working with. What I caught up, the agile testing is something anti-classical approach to testing, everyone is testing and testers are the developers, there are many iterations with the releases, all of them tested and working fine, there is much about test automati...

received a link to hanu software by email, requesting to exchange links. i link from my blog to their page, that can not be accessed form the main webpage. read the website very carefully, because it was very difficult to understand what they are doing. at the end understood, that the term offshore mixed with franchise :) so, they have blog on offshore software development, guess it also includes software testing. liked the resources software testing services - the list with links was really long and rich.

Found Bonus Technology under the title offchore testing. Was interesting to see what it is. Seems outsourcing developers and testers. As i live in the Baltics, for me it is exciting that the company is from Ukraine and Russia.

Inviting to have a look at or even join EuroSTAR blog dedicated to the European software testing community what is EuroStar? The woman, chief software tester at hansabank, vilnius, says, that goes to EuroStar software testing conference the last few years. EuroSTAR 2006, MICC Manchester, 4-7 December, 2006 . the official site . Liked it is in Europe. Searched their website, could not find any fees or more accomodation details, guess there should be direct contact for such information.

Not going to write much on software testing for some time - opened again the website on testing, and going to read some books and articles there. Here is the first on Classic Testing Mistakes . join me...

a few links for interesting software testing blogs: testing reflections blog on testing anyone reading in russian? some russian testing blogs collaborative ST just some url for you and me.

was looking for some info on software testing in the web, found this page . hate such kind of content...