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In computer science we have two kinds of scaling. In horizontal scaling, where we add more machines to a cluster to serve many clients at the same time. With vertical scaling we “beef up” the machines we have, adding more powerful CPU, more RAM, or faster hard drives. In Software

Exactly what to do in your test program is context-dependent. Don’t take this as the way to create a test program, but instead as one way, a way I have seen work at several companies, paying less for testing and getting better results than their peers. Some of the readers here won’t really

A few years ago I worked with a team implementing a continuous integration system. The system was pretty simple. It checked out the code and ran unit-tests, then waited an hour to run again. The manager counted not only the number of passing assertions per day, but also the growth

One of the barriers to organizations embracing Codeless Test Automation has been the lingering question of how to manage legacy tests written in other testing frameworks. For most organizations, that means Selenium. The prospect of recreating thousands of Selenium tests, even using a codeless solution, is understandably daunting and has

Early in my career I read an incredible book that filled me with hope about software. The book is called Peopleware, it is thirty-three years old and still in print. A highlight of my career has been working in a small way with Tim Lister, one of the co-authors. The

Retrofitting a test automation tool on top of an existing application is no joke. As Fred Brooks puts it in the software engineering classic The Mythical Man Month, many a dinosaur has died in those tar pits. Unlike the dinosaurs of old, we keep re-creating the problem with automation projects. Even