I am a huge fan of model based testing, but unfortunately have not had much opportunity to implement it. Even so, I try to keep up with the trends. Here is a Google video about model based testing. Enjoy.

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I love Google videos. They have many great videos about software testing by some of the most renowned software testers in the industry. A couple weeks ago, while looking for new software testing videos, I stumbled on something called SmartFrog. SmartFrog was designed to be a distributed deployment system, but it can [...]

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This blog post about The Incapability Immaturity Model hit way too close to home. A former professor of mine used to say that “a fool with a tool is still a fool.”
I used to work for a company that at the beginning of a project they would spend months on documentation. A full [...]

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I love the fact that Google publishes videos of some of their meetings. This talk, by Lee Copeland, is about proving our worth as testers. I’ve seen Lee speak in person at another event and quite enjoyed him.

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In this months (November) issue of Software Test & Performance magazine there is a good article about a test automation framework. You can download the PDF of the magazine from their web site.
In a nutshell, they create several modules that each accomplish one task. At the end of the task they return the [...]

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Here are some papers about model-based testing:

http://www.beijinginsight.com/ftpspace/softwaretesting/mbt/1999-icse.pdf
http://www.beijinginsight.com/ftpspace/softwaretesting/mbt/PSTT_2004_blackburn.pdf

There are a bunch of general papers on software testing here.
A call for chapters in an upcoming book is here.
Link Summary

http://www.beijingins…ing/mbt/1999-icse.pdfhttp://www.beijingins…TT_2004_blackburn.pdfhttp://www.esnips.com…/JaganTestingMaterialhttp://www.softwaremodelle.de/

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Here are some of my favorite websites about software testing:

http://www.qaforums.com/
http://www.stickyminds.com/
http://www.sqatester.com/
http://www.satisfice.com/
http://www.testingeducation.com
http://www.testingreflections.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel
http://www.developsense.com/blog
http://www.kohl.ca
http://www.testing.com
http://www.homeoftester.com/
http://www.agilemodeling.com/
http://www.testinggeek.com/
http://brains4softwaretesting.blogspot.com/

Link Summary

http://www.qaforums.com/http://www.stickyminds.com/http://www.sqatester.com/http://www.satisfice.com/http://www.testingeducation.com/http://www.testingreflections.com/http://blogs.msdn.com/micahelhttp://www.developsense.com/bloghttp://www.kohl.ca/http://www.testing.com/http://www.homeoftester.com/http://www.agilemodeling.com/http://www.testinggeek.com/http://brains4softwaretesting.blogspot.com/

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This article hit way too close to home. This is EXACTLY what happened to my current project. The powers that be thought it would be a great idea to not only rewrite major portions of our code base, but they thought that they might as well change all the system interfaces and add [...]

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Whatever your role or occupation there are doubtless times where you need to write a report. Most of the reports that I turn in are unique and need to be manually generated. However, my weekly test status report is pretty much the same every week and basically its just the stats that change.
Poking [...]

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One of the great things about being Test Lead is all the paperwork associated with the position (can you sense my sarcasm?). I’ve spent most of the last week working on test plans and test schedules. Since I have never enjoyed paperwork this is especially painful.
In creating a test plan I have really [...]

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