Author Archives: testmuse
Social Testing similar to what we call Social coding / Open source
In reply to a post Peter Kartashov on LinkedIn Software Engineers in Test Is there a need of Social Testing similar to what we call Social coding / Open source ? I’m wondering whether the idea of social/open testing is … Continue reading
Software Testing as Insurance
Getting managers to understand trade-offs in testing is critical. I loved my Manager’s explanation to her test leads. Mary Beam presented the analogy of insurance. You can buy insurance for almost anything. When an organization is buying testing, it is … Continue reading
Testing Luminaries – 3 years by Software Test Professionals
Glad to see the winners of the past 3 years. Interesting to see the runners-up as well. 2010 Gerald Weinberg (other nominees: James Bach, Cem Kaner) 2010 Software Test Luminary Award Recipient Announcement 2011 Ross Collard (other nominees: Cem Kaner, Dr. Adam Kolawa) Announcing 2011 … Continue reading
Free Topology automation for Microsoft Windows environments
I just finished attending the 30th Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC.org) with a great theme : Engineering Software Quality. I was a reviewer for several papers and was glad to see Lightweight Extensible Provisioning System To Stage Heterogeneous Multi-Machine Test Environments by Vladimir … Continue reading
Enjoying TiVo
I recently got a post reminding me I’ve been negligent in updating this blog. I updated LinkedIn and FaceBook. I joined TiVo at the end of June as a Test Architect working for Mary Beam whom I previously worked for … Continue reading
Looking for new opportunities
Haven’t posted much while at Doyenz and now I’m moving on. I’m leaving Doyenz in early June and looking for new opportunities as Test Architect or very senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). More at my http://www.linkedin.com/pub/keith-stobie/0/245/473 profile including resume link.
Model-Based Testing (MBT) Productivity
At ETSI MBT UC I’ve seen more real data presented on MBT success in Industry than ever before. When the slides are publicly posted (soon) I will summarize many of them. In my keynote I gave our standard data of … Continue reading
ETSI Model-Based Testing (MBT) Users Conferernce — Community
The ETSI MBT UC has been great so far. I’ve discovered many interesting things for me. As I stated in my keynote at the conference, I think developing an MBT community will be critical for its ultimate success. As such … Continue reading
Keith is now QA Architect at Doyenz – cloud-based disaster recovery services
I’ve changed positions from Microsoft to Quality Assurance Architect at Doyenz (http://doyenz.com) Doyenz provides flexible, cloud-based disaster recovery services, delivered through channel partners, enabling them to do more with their clients’ bits in the cloud. I will be establishing and implementing … Continue reading
Browser compatability testing
Rex Black posted Does Citrix Think Software Compatibility Testing Is Unnecessary? about my comment on IE9 with Citrix for one of his webinars. Recently I also read that Kindle Cloud reader works with WebKit browsers because it uses the non-standard … Continue reading
