Software Testing

Download actual conference slides here: pptx pdf Introduction: Agile has been around for a while and whilst there has been a lot of successes recorded for some aspects of the software development process such as analysis and development, it seems that testing is that “area” that is being pushed to the right and sometimes made optional. In my years of working in Agile, there are certainly a lot of moments that I had thought “everything else but testing is Agile”.

In the last 5 years or so, we have been training and mentoring Software Testers and Business Analysts and as part of the mentoring session, I ask about their experience of interviews; generally I am looking for the sort of questions the mentees are being asked and more importantly what answers were provided to the interviewers. My observations in recent years is that there is an increasing demand for manual testers with technical skills and knowledge of databases is one that sits high on the list of technical skills.

Sometime i would use my blog as a place to keep interesting stuff for future exploration. I came across the chrome net internals today and i think it exposes a lot of useful information that might be useful to testers when testing a web application. To access the chrome net internals, navigate to chrome://net-internals/ on a google chrome browser. I would be spending some more time in the future exploring this but for now its back to work.