An element of software quality often overlooked is the issue of usability. With internal applications you train users on the process to follow and this may make up for a world of ugly. The web has changed our perceptions and devices and Apps will continue to drive home the need to deliver applications that are [...]
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Discovering Usability
by Thomas Murphy | January 23, 2012 | Submit a Comment
The Year of Mobile Testing
by Thomas Murphy | January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
The explosion of devices and apps is creating a strain on testing organizations. A broad number of tools have hit the market and we expect to see strong growth in the number of options during the next three years. A plethora of challenges exist: gestures, geolocation, motion, and how to realistically conduct load tests to [...]
Category: Mobile Testing Tags: Cloud Testing, Functional Automation, SOASTA
Mobile Testing Tools – It is a Tactical Decision
by Thomas Murphy | June 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
The rapid movement to build and deploy applications to devices is creating a challenge for testing teams. Solutions from the leading testing vendors are missing, or provided by partner extensions, and the pace of technology evolution will keep them chasing for several more years. Organizations should recognize that testing choices (tools, services, etc) will be [...]
An Economic Foundation to Performance Testing
by Thomas Murphy | April 7, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Companies often wonder about the economic value of testing. For functional testing this generally boils down to defect containment and reducing the cost of fixing defects by finding them earlier but putting performance in economic terms has been more of a challenge. However we continue to see high numbers of sites with performance failures and [...]
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The Apple Testing Problem
by Thomas Murphy | February 24, 2011 | 3 Comments
As we worked through the MQ for Integrated Software Quality Suites one of the key issues we are seeing is that tools are lagging behind the pace of innovation and are often lacking support for platforms and technologies that are becoming popular leaving organizations to perform a lot of manual testing. Key in these areas [...]
Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites
by Thomas Murphy | January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
We published the updated MQ for Integrated Software Quality Suites today (see http://bit.ly/hd4reJ ) after several months of work with vendors, users, and community review. This document focuses on vendors who provide (or are working to provide) a complete set of tools for primarily driving the software testing process including test case management, defect management, [...]
Category: ALM Quality Testing Tags: Magic Quadrant
New Year 2011 AD Reading List
by Thomas Murphy | January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
A few relatively new books have been filling my reading time lately and they offer great content on how to improve the development process and team especially if you are making a shift towards Agile: Continuous Delivery – this is a great new book on what it really takes to make Continuous Integration work and [...]
Factors Behind Improving Testing Efficiency
by Thomas Murphy | December 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
During his GTAC 2010 talk, Robert Binder covers a lot of interesting material. He ranges through white box and black box tests, the value of automation and movement toward model-based testing paradigms. One of the most interesting elements comes near the end of the talk, around 59 minutes in when we presents a chart on [...]
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2011 Expect Open Source Testing Progress
by Thomas Murphy | December 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
We are seeing greater uptake of open source testing frameworks. This is happening in software companies (as underpinnings of commercial products), at end user companies (to enhance overall toolset), and in services companies (who are using open source as a foundation for value ad products and services). A key driver for the increased use is [...]
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Technology Running Faster than Testing
by Thomas Murphy | December 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
As the number of mobile devices raced past the number of traditional computers the challenges for testing organizations continue to pile up. In many instance tools (especially those of market leaders) is lagging behind market needs. Support for Chrome and Safari, the ability to drive load tests (or functional tests) from a device (rather than [...]
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