Category Archives: software testing

NLP techniques: anchor & swish. What can be applied to software testing?

Posted on October 14, 2009 by karennjohnson

I’ve missed blogging. I’ve missed writing. Well, writing what I feel like when the mood strikes which I cannot predict – either the topic or the timing which doesn’t work so well for editors. I’ve been on another one of … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Testing

Posted on July 20, 2009 by karennjohnson

O’Reilly has announced the book, Beautiful Testing. I’m one of the contributing authors. I was asked if I would write about my experiences and thoughts on medical software. I have several different project experiences I could have written about. I … Continue reading →

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Testing SCDs

Posted on April 1, 2009 by karennjohnson

An SCD is a slowly changing dimension in a data warehouse. There are three different forms of SCDs. SCD1 overwrites data, SCD2 maintains historical data and SCD3 maintains some of the data. SCDs and testing in a data warehouse is … Continue reading →

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Test the Tester’s Site

Posted on February 20, 2009 by karennjohnson

So last weekend while I was supposed to be writing with Mike Kelly, I was distracted, and of course, distracted him from writing as well as we revamped my website. See: http://www.karennjohnson.com I’m sure my new site has issues, feel … Continue reading →

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Karen’s unedited opinion of test script writing

Posted on February 16, 2009 by karennjohnson

Ok, so some years ago – now I promise this will tie back to a very recent conversation I had with a “tester” – but first – some years ago when I starting work as a newspaper reporter, I was … Continue reading →

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Schools of Software Webcast

Posted on February 1, 2009 by karennjohnson

Scott Barber and I recorded a webcast on the schools of software testing, you can find it here: http://searchoracle.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1229552888_558.html The topic is the schools of software testing. At the time of the recording, the topic wasn’t being bantered about as … Continue reading →

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Determining the size of the sample set

Posted on January 2, 2009 by karennjohnson

I have a challenge to solve that I’ve had to solve before: When I have more data to test with than there is time or is practical to test with, then what should I build for a sample data set? … Continue reading →

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The trace matrix

Posted on August 21, 2008 by karennjohnson

The trace matrix has always disturbed me. For me, there’s something uncomfortable about taking the complexities of testing and reducing all that intellectual activity, thinking, and effort and squeezing it into a small tidy table that allegedly proves testing is … Continue reading →

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How To

Posted on August 2, 2008 by karennjohnson

In recent weeks I’ve had the good fortune to return to do some work on a product I worked on a couple of years ago. I’m working with a product that I have deep history and knowledge of and I’m … Continue reading →

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Cookies & the hosts file on Vista

Posted on July 24, 2008 by karennjohnson

I haven’t tested a cookie in a long time, so long I realized I didn’t know where cookies are stored on Vista. Finding cookies on Vista is more of a headache than I can recall in any other Windows versions. … Continue reading →

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