This blog is intended for software system engineers, architects and managers or people generally interested in development, testing and integration of software systems. It is part of profiq’s community effort that has the objective of sharing knowledge and ideas about software system integration, testing and development. In addition to this technical content, we share updates about life at profiq.
Posted 13 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
Here comes a universal recipe that I often hear on software release projects that are planning outsourcing of functional testing responsibilities. Take an experienced test designer to define test cases. Then take several clickers to do the execution based on those pre-defined test cases and you are done with your testing team. A clicker is […]
Posted 13 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
Testers often debate about testers’ place in the world of software engineering and the world’s perception of testers. Both well known names ([1], [2]) and the broader community ([5], [6]) contribute. We (testers) often get frustrated, deffensive, when non-testers say that testing doesn’t need thinking, that it is only about pressing buttons, that experience or qualification are not […]
Posted 13 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
We argued in a previous article that independent testing is about the way testers act and the quality of information that they provide, rather than about the way they are organized or governed. Organization and governence still tend to have a crucial impact on independence. That’s perhaps the reason, why some of defined standards approach […]
Posted 13 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
Testing independence is being referred to in various ways: organizational independence of a test team on other teams within a company, independence of a testing service vendor on other vendors, or testing as an independent engineering or scientific discipline. This blog site intends to refer to software testing as a business function and its in/dependence […]
Posted 13 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
Be welcome on profiq’s blog! profiq is a software engineering company that was established in 2010 and is owned by former Sun engineers. We enjoy working on development and testing of core systems such as platforms, frameworks, server-side applications and developer tools, that’s why we ended up establishing an engineering focused company and that’s why we […]