Earlier, we looked at different ways that load testing can go wrong, if you aren’t informed, or if you don’t know what you’re doing. In part 1, we talked about a well meaning person who ina...
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In the Part 2 story, we saw what a load testing tool can do when it is used by someone who doesn’t have the right knowledge and skill about the tool and underlying systems. However, you also ne...
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In the Part 1 story, time, money and effort were wasted. This story is much more serious. Load and performance testing tools can be simple to get started on, but they belie a good deal of complex...
http://www.kohl.ca/2022/load-testing-your-web-infrastructure-please-be-careful-part-2/
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/
Recently, I wrote about Using Storytelling Games in Software Testing, and pointed you to a paper by Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark. Now I want to give you some tips on creating great storytell...
http://www.kohl.ca/2013/creating-great-storytelling-to-enhance-software-testing-scenarios/
I decided to analyze a game feature, the “quest“, which is used in popular video games, particularly MMORPGs. Quests have some compelling aspects for structuring testing activitues. Jane McGo...
http://www.kohl.ca/2013/test-quests-gamification-applied-to-software-test-execution/
I wrote an article for Better Software magazine this month called “Software Testing is a Game”, available here in PDF format. I wrote about using gamification as an approach to analyze and he...
http://www.kohl.ca/2013/applying-gamification-in-software-testing/
If you spend time at conferences, or hire a well-known testing consultant to provide some training for your company, it’s likely that one or more of them have used game mechanics as teaching to...
http://www.kohl.ca/2012/software-testing-training-and-gaming/