May 2008
5 posts
Sysinternals: MS Window Utility Tools at your...
I’m a hack at heart, and I enjoy getting my hands dirty with tweak tools for Windows when I need some help with small runtime utilities. Well, now Windows® Sysinternals offers a way for you to grab the tools you need for your test lab workstations, via your web browser. Just point your browser to Sysinternals (http://live.sysinternals.com/ ) and you can grab the toys you need to work with. This...
Offline/online web apps support a return to the...
Sometimes I pick issues that makes me step back and ask what is all of this for exactly? On CNET’s Webware, I checked out an article which listed some of the upcoming improvements that Google is making to it’s Gears suite. Google Gears is the API that integrates offline capabilities to web applications, allowing them to work as if they were native system applications. Slightly similar to Adobe’s...
The vacation is over…
Cabo! Mazatlan! Puerto Vallarta! Royal Caribbean! I have just finished a nice romp through Mexico with my lovely girlfriend, and my weeks away have been more than memorable. I feel refreshed and ready to go full throttle on this blog, since some ideas have been on brew for a while now. If you haven’t been on a vacation, take one – life is way to short.
Do Automated Test Tools Impede Agile Groups?...
I have touched on this before in a previous post and I know that most Agile environments relish the goal of eliminating silos, but automated tools are a part of QA, and can be embraced into the fold of any Agile process. I say this because I have biased view of how these tools can assist the testing effort with a positive outcome, no matter the process. I have expanded my career by becoming a...
Test This! Eye Tracking the World of Warcraft...
My girlfriend (who is so much the better half of me) literally hates my love of video games and how my casual addiction to World of Warcraft (and now GTA4), has derailed some of my household chores. Don’t worry. I still bathe. I can honestly say that I have this under control, but then I stumbled on this article that talks of how someone has “jerry-rigged” an eye tracking apparatus to their...
