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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One of the greatest things about testing is posting bug reports. While I’m not a sadistic software bug witch hunter, I do enjoy finding a good bug.
A few weeks ago one of the CORBA components in our system was turned over to me for testing. So, after looking over the specifications and the [...]

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Personally, I find some ironic humor in this article, published by eWeek. The question posed by the author is “If Bill Gates showed up at the Microsoft employment office today, would he get a job?” Probably not. After all, he dropped out of college and doesn’t have the right sheepskin hanging on [...]

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I’m not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, but I found a “feature” in PyFIT that had me smashing the keyboard with my face. According to the PyFIT documentation you should be able to create a table like this:

|TestClass|
|InputString |OutputNum |
|Hello World [...]

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I’m really starting to get into this whole FIT/FitNesse thing. Creating test cases is now easy and my managers love the HTML documentation and results that come out of the tools. Until now I’ve just been using FitNesse, but thanks to the hard work of Grig Gheorghiu and John Roth (the PyFIT author) [...]

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I was pretty proud of my latest Python script, which was designed to test a CORBA object. However, when I tried to run the script it gave me some obfuscated errors and died. So, for the last couple days I’ve been trying to figure out why my script was dying. It turns [...]

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The FIT SequenceFixture is essentially the same as a DoFixture. I just like the way commands are written better. One of the cool things about a SequenceFixture (or DoFixture) is that it allows you to use other fixture types from within. So, you could have a RowFixture running some tests then decide [...]

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No, this isn’t a bad exercise video. I’m talking about Ward Cunninghams Framework for Integrated Test (FIT). If you haven’t yet discovered this great tool for testing then steer your browser on over to http://fit.c2.com.
FIT essentially allows you to write test “stories” in plain HTML and then execute them. I just introduced [...]

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