why did I start a public blog about software testing when there are so many other good ones out there ?
I work with HP QuickTest Pro ( QTP ), an automated gui testing tool. I also read blogs about testing. there is a lot of hype about what gui test tools can do and cannot do. I’d like to share some of the things I have done successfully with QTP that are not ‘out of the box’, but help me test software.
I am just a guy who has pushed a lot of buttons, typed in a lot of text boxes, and written a lot of bugs. I promise not to push too much deep philosophy at ya.
I may also state sometimes what manual test techniques work for me and what don’t, or talk about load testing.
My motives are partially selfish, because I want to build respect and support in the testing & developer community for what gui tools can do when used intelligently. I also want to explicitly state what tasks I have found gui tools not particularly good at. Hopefully this will have a good karmic effect for me and any readers. If you don’t use test tools you have probably stopped reading already.
At the start will say all my posts will refer to some ‘generic’ situation, and that I do not have time to answer specific questions from readers via blog comments. The QuickTest Pro forum at qaforums.com has some good basic knowledge if you need that. Use their google search first to make sure someone else has not asked your question first. I use QTP and whatever other term string I am looking for. Their onsite search is somehat useless, but they have a google search box that is site specific.
I also reserve the right to change the technical direction of this blog somewhat over time, but I promise not to rant here about most topics unrelated to sw testing.
