Jonathan Kohl » test automation

Now that I am on the product management side of software projects, I don’t deal with testing approaches in my day-to-day work very much. I get info about product quality criteria, quality goals...

http://www.kohl.ca/2022/load-testing-your-web-infrastructure-please-be-careful-part-1/

As I mentioned in a prior post: Software Testing is a Game, two dominant manual testing approaches to the software testing game are scripted and exploratory testing. In the test automation space,...

http://www.kohl.ca/2012/test-automation-games/

I recently received my copy of Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. I contributed chapter 19: There's More to Automation than Regression Testing: Thinking Out...

http://www.kohl.ca/2012/experiences-of-test-automation/

I wrote an article for Automated Software Testing magazine on test automation politics for the November issue. A PDF copy of the article is available here: Test Automation Politics 101. Article b...

http://www.kohl.ca/2009/content-pointer-automation-politics-101/

I’ll be traveling to Toronto twice this summer for testing presentations. The first is for TASSQ, on June 24. I’ll be presenting my “Man and Machine” talk where I talk about interactive a...

http://www.kohl.ca/2008/im-speaking-in-toronto-this-summer/

Test Common editor Bruce Daley commented on my “Man and Machine” article and then interviewed me about it last week. The interview is here: An Interview with Jonathan Kohl. We talked about au...

http://www.kohl.ca/2008/give-testers-power-an-interview-with-test-common/

My first cover article for Better Software magazine is out this month: Man and Machine: Combining the Power of the Human Mind with Automation. This is an article describing how I bridge the gap b...

http://www.kohl.ca/2007/update-new-article-published-man-and-machine/

Back when I was in college, I had an instructor who was a big fan of Total Quality Management (TQM). TQM was quite popular, but in our business school setting, it wasn’t taught that much. We le...

http://www.kohl.ca/2006/employee-empowerment-and-how-i-became-a-contextualist/

The Agile movement has brought some positive practices to software development processes. I am a huge fan of frequent communication, of delivering working software iteratively, and strong custome...

http://www.kohl.ca/2006/reckless-test-automation/

Chris McMahon asks: How do I find a useful model when unit tests are passing and show 100% code coverage? Chris asked me this a bit tongue-in-cheek because he has heard me rant about these sorts ...

http://www.kohl.ca/2006/re-model-myopia-in-testing/