We’re switching to Scrum. I’ve worked in Agile-like environments before, but nothing ‘pure’. It’s always been a mixture of some Agile, XP, and Waterfall which can create process issues if not done right. However even if you have a process in place correctly it still depends on the people working through it and I’ve been [...]
Agile (Scrum) Training
posted by dez on March 1st, 2010 under Testing
Verizon Palm Pre Plus & Palm Pixi Plus
posted by dez on February 15th, 2010 under Testing
The two phones are mine for testing for the next two weeks. It’s going to take me a lot of playing and reading to figure out the web OS, but I’ll do it. Hopefully I’ll get some great videos and helpful reviews.
First impressions:
Palm Pixi Plus
The phone is tiny and responsive. The keyboard keys are [...]
Website Address Resolution Problems
posted by dez on January 30th, 2010 under Testing
Updates at the bottom (current count: 3)
Update 1
Update 2
Update 3
I’ve been having issues with my web browsing. I’ve seen twitter redirect to a random/dead blogspot page, Invalid URL errors, Google 404’s (and its not trending on twitter), facebook redirect to myspace (odd), and a few times I’ve seen my this site and youtube redirected to [...]
The pain, The horror, The unwritten test case
posted by dez on January 9th, 2010 under Testing
Yes, they are related.
There isn’t a job out there that doesn’t have a pain point. Writing test cases very well may be the pain point for a tester, but it’s a necessary one. Also the quality of a written test case can very well gauge the level of competence a tester has. I don’t know how many [...]
Facebook Birthday Fail
posted by dez on December 30th, 2009 under Testing
I love the fact that Facebook’s new format puts birthday’s and events back at the top, however they need to work on two things:
1) Reporting the correct day of the birthday
2) Putting them in the right order
Example:
OK, first off the birthday’s aren’t even in the right order… They are supposed to be chronological starting with [...]






