Category: Testing

The poor performance of healthcare.gov

by Graham Email

Anybody in the USA who has not just landed from Mars will know what I am about to write about…for those of you outside of the USA, suffice it to say that a major government initiative’s web site is currently a train-wreck, with inadequate performance to… more »

I passed my ISTQB Foundation examination on Monday...

by Graham Email

...with a score of 85%. I can now use the letters ISTQB after my name. When I was growing up, it looked like a good idea to go into one of the following three areas of endeavour; the military, civil engineering or medicine, since in all of those areas it… more »

This week's Testing links

by Graham Email

Here are some links about software testing that I have been looking at in the last 2 weeks: 1. STAR East and STAR West Here is a blog entry from a Microsoft attendee of STAR West 2007, with a summary of the events. 2. General Software Testing Th… more »

My new focus on Testing

by Graham Email

I have now moved to the Global Testing Practice for my employer. This creates a whole new set of learning challenges for me, but it also returns me "to my roots" in a way, since I entered the I.T. industry in the Summer of 1978 as a maintenance programme… more »