Archive for the ‘Google Testing’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
A Primer in Testing Mobile Phone Applications
Check out a short article by our very own Julian Harty on stickyminds.com. Here's the summary...It took eighteen months for Julian Harty to overcome the various challenges of testing mobile wireless applications. In turn, he has learned some valuable lessons that he wants to ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
TotT: Avoiding friend Twister in C++
(resuming our testing on the toilet posts...)In a previous episode, we extracted methods to simplify testing in Python. But if these extracted methods make the most sense as private class members, how can you write your production code so it doesn't depend on your test ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Follow up: Call for posts...
Looks like there some strong support for having the community post on this blog. Great! Please send submissions to testengteam at gmail.com. In the subject line please prefix with "blogme:" to aid in spam filtering. See the 3 basic rules in the previous post. Looking forward ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Call for posts...
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorI’d like to offer the readers a chance to post their ideas on this blog.To keep this simple I only have 3 rules:no commercial postings or links to commercial sites,post need to be interesting and practical ideas relating to testing, andposts need ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Automating tests vs. test-automation
Posted by Markus Clermont, Test Engineering Manager, ZurichIn the last couple of years the practice of testing has undergone more than superficial changes. We have turned our art into engineering, introduced process-models, come up with best-practices, and developed tools to support our daily work and make each ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Overview of Infrastructure Testing
Posted by Marc Kaplan, Test Engineering LeadAt Google, we have infrastructure that is shared between many projects. This infrastructure creates a situation where we have a many dependencies in terms of build requirements, but also in terms of test requirements. We've found that we actually need two ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Testing Google Mashup Editor Class
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorWanted to let you know about a partnership Google Test Engineering is doing with the University of California, Irvine. We've teamed up with Professor Hadar Ziv to sponsor a course that focuses on preparing students for industry (code.google.com and several ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Performance Testing
Posted by Goranka Bjedov, Senior Test EngineerThis post is my best shot at explaining what I do, why I do it, and why I think it is the right thing to do. Performance testing is a category of testing that seems to evoke strong feelings in people: feelings of ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Post Release: Closing the loop
Posted by Michael Bachman, Test Engineering ManagerA testing organization's job is not done with the release of a product. As the software development cycle does not end with the release of the product but has an extension into the post-release diagnostics and evaluation. Learning from ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
But it works on my machine!
Posted by John Thomas, Software Engineer We thought you might be interested in another article from our internal monthly testing newsletter called CODE GREEN... Originally titled: "Opinion: But it works on my machine!"We spent so much time ...
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