Everything SQA

Effective efforts defined: A white paper on Agile projects [white paper/QA/agile]

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:18:48 -0700

(Per copy) Requirements management increases the value delivered by critical business projects,...

Mobile QA tools (for free) [wireless/protocol analysis]

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:54:00 -0700

For some of you out there, and you know who you are…you have that cool job testing wireless...

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Tutorial [learning/introductions]

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:13:15 -0700

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Tutorial [learning/introductions]: My significant other and I...

Add-ons for Firebug [more toys/QA/tweaks]

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:03:00 -0700

Steve Souders, the meastro who contributed to the development of Yahoo’s YSlow (he’s now...

Effective testing ideals that can support (some of) the agile process [review/QA]

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:45:00 -0700

Over the weekend, I had a chance to peruse Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve...

Keeping the eye on the tiger (or cloud) [monitoring services/cloud]

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:52:00 -0700

I called it. I saw this coming based on a previous blog post on how all of the cloud based services...

Answer (test) this? Why is the price of automobile oil lower then gas?[a none QA rant]

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:29:36 -0700

Oil per barrel is at an all time high. How is it that the same oil used to make gasoline is sold at...

Re-testing the cloud (or building better redundancy) [QA/cloud/observations]

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:22:35 -0700

Once more we see that the Twitter world is all a flutter with an unfortunate downtime, and because...

Sysinternals: MS Window Utility Tools at your fingertips [tools/OS/utility/test lab]

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:59:51 -0700

I’m a hack at heart, and I enjoy getting my hands dirty with tweak tools for Windows when I need...

Offline/online web apps support a return to the past. [observation/tech]

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:20:00 -0700

Sometimes I pick issues that makes me step back and ask what is all of this for exactly? On CNET’s...

The vacation is over…

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:21:43 -0700

Cabo! Mazatlan! Puerto Vallarta! Royal Caribbean! I have just finished a nice romp through Mexico...

Do Automated Test Tools Impede Agile Groups? [QA/opinion/review]

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:47:00 -0700

I have touched on this before in a previous post and I know that most Agile environments relish the...

Test This! Eye Tracking the World of Warcraft [QA/tech/innovative]

Mon, 05 May 2008 11:39:00 -0700

My girlfriend (who is so much the better half of me) literally hates my love of video games and how...

Frankly Speaking: Agile programming is no hooey | The Industry Standard [agile/QA/review]

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:26:00 -0700

Frankly Speaking: Agile programming is no hooey | The Industry Standard [agile/QA/review]: I have...

Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers [QA/mobile/smoke tests]

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:07:00 -0700

Here’s more to add to your arsenal of test tools, especially for this killer mobile apps. The W3C...

Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws [updates/testing]

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:11:00 -0700

Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws [updates/testing]: I received my update this afternoon....

Hire a tester for $4 an hour - [QA/offshore/crowdsourcing]

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:29:00 -0700

I recall a story about Nike, and how there was some major hoopla over their production of a...

Amazon improves the "cloud" with premium support [news]

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:58:00 -0700

Amazon improves the "cloud" with premium support [news] : Source ReadWriteWeb. It looks like the...

Web OS: The day is near (maybe). [comment/predictions/QA/rant]

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:42:00 -0700

We browse. We email. We blog. We surf. We Twitter. We Google. We YouTube. We Digg. We Skype. We...

It’s my ever growing love for the evolution of...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:47:00 -0700

It’s my ever growing love for the evolution of technology.

Over at Cognitive Code, they have put together something that surpasses Eliza. Her name is SYLVIA.

Given my open perspective on how QA evolves, I watched this and asked the proverbial question, “…how would I test that?”

Easy. It’s an SDK for PDAs, mobile solutions and desktop applications. But once enabled, this cognitive solution for conversational speech will be a wild ride to test on any platform.

Enjoy.

(P.S. - It’s a long video, but I love these tech-talks. It keeps me out of trouble.)