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- LoadVerify performs tests for the 2011 Rugby World Cup
LoadVerify performs tests for the 2011 Rugby World Cup The organizers expect 95,000 visitors from overseas to travel to New Zealand for the event. To support this event, the teams and its visitors, an … - Want to automate your regression testing?
Traditionally and even as late as 2008, intending to automate your regression testing or certain parts was a hard task. There were several arguments against doing this. Automation technology did not c … - Are you seen as a bearer of bad news when testing?
This was a question recently raised on the forums. Generally it depends on the environment within the project and how successful the project is going. The tester could always be the bearer of bad news … - What do you consider the best tools for Performance/Load and Stress testing a web application?
There are plenty of tools out there that do similar adequate jobs, the revelation for me is using load and performance tools from the cloud for web applications, websites and Saas\PaaS scenario’ … - How do you estimate testing effort?
Generally when pressed I always estimate testing effort including re-testing to be the same duration as development. So if a piece of code/functionality takes 2 hours to complete, I usually say it wil … - How many checklists do you need in the software testing life cycle?
You can have too much documentation. Check-list numbers should be scalable, due to size and complexity of the project and keeping to KISS principle also always works with lists. The number of business …