Please welcome our new Daily Testing Tip contributors

As most of you know, the daily testing tip provides a software testing tip on each week day. Its run by volunteers who for six weeks provide a dailytesting tip.

It can be a real challenge to find a tip within 140 characters that's succinct and helpful. 

Please welcome the latest daily testing tip contributors. 

Monday:  Dennis Gurock

Tuesday : Vips Gupta

Wednesday: Matt Harp

Thursday: Pablin Mazzeo

Friday: Jille Berends 

Its great to see some repeat contributors. 

I look forward to a fun six weeks of fantastic tips! 

Anne-Marie 

Free E-book available for download - "If I were a testcase I would..."

I'm very excited (and a little proud) to announce the launching of the e-book "if i were a testcase I would...".

Many of you know that the ebook started on twitter with the musing "If I were a testcase I would....". The response was huge. The idea for the book goes to Curious Tester, so many thanks Parimala.

Thanks also to the Software Testing Club who I collaborated with to make this book a reality. You guys are making such a difference in the testing community. So thank you all.

Thanks to the sponsors who very generously supported Chandru's Fund. ADTMAG.com, TestRail, Testing Times and Moolya.  This book is in aid of his ongoing medical needs.

Of course I can't complete the thanks you's without a nod to Andy Glover aka Cartoon Tester for supplying his wonderful cartoons. Is your response in cartoon format?

Download the book, see if your response made it into the book. Apologies if it didn't the oversight is not intentional, but there were so many!

If you celebrate Christmas, have a wonderful Christmas. If you don't have a great holiday and I will see you all in the new year.

Anne-Marie Charrett
Maverick Tester

P.S
 I'm looking for volunteers willing to contribute a tweet a week for the dailytestingtip. It's a great way to help out the testing community and get yourself a bit of a profile. ( I profile all contributors on the front page of this blog).

So, if you think you have what it takes, why not contact me Anne-Marie dailytestingtip@gmail.com. 

Cartoon Tester Meets Daily Testing Tip

Andy Glover aka Cartoon Tester has very kindly agreed to donate some of his fabulous cartoons to the upcoming E-Book "If I were a test case I would ...." 

Many thanks Andy for such a generous offer.

The interest and response to this book has been fantastic with over 300 responses coming in to the challenge. Companies big and small have asked me for advertising. There's talk of an upcoming article in a major magazine. 

But we want more! 

We want more companies to advertise. Remember all proceeds go to charity, the Chandru Fund. 

Advertising packages will be announced on Monday. 

If I were a testcase I would......

Daily Testing Tip has put out a challenge today. Its asking testers to complete the following phrase:

"If I were a testcase I would........." and to add the #dttip tag at the end. 

There have been some terrific responses such as:

@msdeibel: If I were a testcase I would fail randomly so ppl start investigating and exploring using brains

@michaelbolton: If I were a test case, I would ask "Why me? Why am I better than some other test case?" #dttip

and my personal favourite:

@rob_lambert: If I were a heavily scripted TC I'd draw on some legs, print myself out and run like the wind for a life of freedom and free thinking #dttip

We are going to collate all responses and publish them in an e-book which will be free to download. We are looking to raise money for the Chandru Fund through sponsorship of the book in return for strategic advertising.

How can you help?

We need your responses. Send in your twitter response to "If I was a testcase I would....." by adding the hashtag #dttip to the end.

If you don't have a twitter account, you can email me at dailytestingtip@gmail.com.

How can you help?
We are looking for sponsorship big and small. If you think your company may like to sponsor this book, get them to contact me directly at amcharrett@testingtimes.ie, we are offering attractive advertising packages.

So what are you waiting for? Get thinking and get writing. Its a bit of fun and your helping a worthy cause.

Sponsorship queries: amcharrett @ testingtimes.ie

Email responses: dailytestingtip @ gmail.com

And the winner is.....

The winning vote was:

Think testing as a challenge; it is not simply verification and validation of what is written and communicated in the starting

So congratulations to Vipul Gupta @vipsgupta for wining the vote.

Coming in a close second was:

Follow @dailytestingtip for some real good tips. 


contributed by Ajay Balamurugadas @ajay184f 

As you can see from the final count, there were many very popular tips and sometimes the one you think is going to win, just doesn't seem to get enough legs. Thats why I get to chose Editors Choice.

I've based Editors choice on a) my personal favorite :), b) the number of RT's it got and c) the number of votes it received. Based on these criteria, I am proud to announce:

Editors Choice 

Testing "Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back" proverbs http://bit.ly/bVRTKT

by Albert Gareev  http://twitter.com/AGareev

Again, congratulations to both winners. Both winner and Editor's choice will receive a copy of the first edition of The Testing Planet.

We got a total of 210 votes in, so a huge thank you to all endured the countless tweets to vote & eventually could resist no longer and voted for their personal favourite.


P.S Daily Testing Tip will be taking a break from polls. We are looking into alternative ways for people to express their favourite tip. 

Vote now! Most popular tip wins a prize

Wow, what a great response to the competition. Many thanks to everyone who sent in a software testing tip. Its your contributions that keep #dttip alive, so keep up the good work.

You can vote on three different tips. Remember the winner will win a first edition copy of the brand new Software Testing Newspaper, The Testing Planet, due out in July.

So get voting! Winner will be announced late Friday.




I think I have all the tips here. If you submitted a tip and its not there, let me know. I try and catch all the tips but the twitter feeds seem to be a bit unreliable.

#dttip competition with great prize!

Put on your thinking caps, because the daily testing tip #dttip has a great prize this week! 


Daily Testing Tip and the Software Testing Club have teamed up this week for a great competition.

The prize? A fabulous signed First Edition of The Testing Planet!

We are asking you to submit your favourite #dttip between Monday Noon GMT and Wednesday noon GMT.

On Wednesday afternoon the tips will then be posted for voting.Very simply, the tip voted the most popular will be the winner. The winner will announced late Friday afternoon GMT time.

All you need to do is add a #dttip to your daily testing tip tweet. If you're not part of the twitter fest, maybe now its time to join!

Winner most popular #dttip

I think this week the vote was unanimous.

Congratulations to Michel Kraaij with the following tip:

"An exploring tester doesn't only find #bugs, but also finds inconsistencies which might possibly cause bugs in the future"

Next week we are hosting a fantastic competition for the most popular testing tip. To enter into the comp, you have to enter your #dttip between Monday 12 pm GMT to Wednesday 12 pm GMT.

More details will follow, but get those creative testing tips working now!

Again, congrats to Michel Kraaij from the Netherlands, most popular tip and editors choice, all in one.

P.S close second was this tip:

"beware the phrase "no user would ever do that". you might be missing the connection, & malicious users do strange things on purpose."

So congrats to Rick Scott from Canada.

Most Popular Tip 15th June?

What will be the most popular tip this week?

You get to vote for 3 of your tips.

Results will be out on late Friday.




Here is a link to all the tips

Winner of Most Popular #dttip

This weeks winner of most popular testing tip is :

It is always gud to brainstorm on the testing activities that aren't clear. If u r nt convinced, u wil nt b able to justify your job @vipsgupta

Congratulations to Vipul.

P.S Editors pick is:

Eat lunch with your developers -- they'll talk about changes they've forgotten to tell you about. @jbaibel

Poll Daddy Results

Vote for your #dttip

Anyone think that Tag Tuesday wasn't going to happen yesterday? Even when I'm away #dttip continues to thrive. Thanks to everyone who sent out a tweet yesterday urging people to share a software testing tip, another great sign of our strong testing community.

Have you noticed how Tag Tuesday is starting earlier and earlier in the week? This weeks first tip came in last Friday. It's great, feel free to share whenever the inspiration hits you!

I've found some time to put together a poll to vote for most popular #dttip from yesterday, partly due to jetlag and also because fortunately for me there were less tips to vote on.
While the tips were down in volume, the quality of the tips continued to shine. I have my particular favourites, what are your top three?




PS If I've left any tips out, sincere apologies. I blame it all on twitter.

Daily Testing Tip Cloud

Another successfull #dttip day yesterday. We had over 30 tips come in yesterday,so many thanks to all contributors.

A couple of personal favourites were:

@Unlicensed2test: Get a 'bounce buddy'. Someone you can talk to about anything and bounce ideas off.

@artofsqa: Sometimes you have to poke the code with a sharp stick to find out where it bleeds.

@joelmonte: Testing ideas may come to you at the weirdiest times, keep a notebook handy to write them down & use them later.

For a complete list of #dttip here is the feed

Tweet Cloud
I think this is interesting. It shows the last 150 words used yesterday. I'm still looking for a better way to display #dttip in a graphical format. If anyone has any ideas leave a comment below

Created by Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

Dead Heat for most popular testing tip

There were two tips that clearly were the most popular from the start the poll opened.

Congratulations to Lisa Crispin and Zeger Van Hese for having their tips voted as most popular #dttip.

The tips were:

@TestSideStory: Just because something is beyond your current skill set doesn't mean it's beyond your current scope of responsibility (Cem Kaner)

@lisacrispin: Spend some time today learning about your business domain. You'll be better able to help improve ur product.

You can see the full result below.

Editor's pick was:
@ThomasPonnet: In a quiet moment speak 2 devs abt their gut feel, where do they expect bugs? This is where you'll find 'em

Thanks again to everyone who contributed and voted. See you next Tuesday!

Tag Tuesday 11th May

Wow, the tweets were pouring in yesterday and I had a record number of tweets. Thanks again to all who contributed. I know I've picked up a few handy tips that I've stored away.

A special thanks to those who contributed multiple tips, @EEtester @JeroenRo and @TestSideStory to name a few.

I've made a poll again. Because the large amount of tips, I've opened up the voting, so you can now choose up to 5 tips in one vote. So enjoy.




P.S, apologies if I missed any tips, there were so many, I'm might have missed a couple

I've also created a list of yesterday's tips you can grab it here

Most Popular Tip

Thanks to everyone who voted for their favourite tip yesterday.

There was a clear front candidate all day and it was no suprise that Selenda's tip came up top.

So here it is:

@sdelesie:Building relationships is key to building great software. Invite programmers out for a drink; you'll be amazed by what you learn

Full results can be seen in this feed

See you next Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday 4th May 2010

Well, the software testing tips keep flowing in.

I thought it might be fun to have a vote on the most popular #dttip each Wednesday.

Have a look at yesterdays tips and vote for your favourite software testing tip.

Tag Tuesday

There was another frantic day of sharing software testing tips yesterday. Many thanks to those on contributed.

There were some fantastic tips yesterday. In fact, I've noted a few that caught my eye and have made a mental note to try them out, in particular jbtestpilots tool suggestions. 

These are my personal favourites:

@JeroenRo for : Holding ice with warm hands is like testing without requirements,you need other means to preserve the object otherwise its gone

@can_test : If you don't know what flowers look like don't weed the garden.


Which one was your personal favourite?

The full list can be viewed here Tag Tuesday 27th April 2010

Here is a list of everyone's tips. Many thanks to you all for making it such a fun day. I've listed the tips here for you to go through. My personal favourite was:

'Ever tried, Ever failed, No matter. Try again, Fail again, Fail Better' Samuel Beckett  by @esconfs, but perhaps that's because he's an Irishman, Beckett that is not @esconfs.

#dttip for Tuesday 20th April 
  

If you missed out on a chance to share your special tip, then why not do it next tuesday? I'm hoping to make Tag Tuesday a regular event.

Tag Tuesday.

Test out your skills and help the testing community. Daily testing tip is inviting you on send in your favourite tip on Tuesdays. Its simple, just add #dttip to your tweet.

The tip can be on anything related to testing, a tool you like, a way of using a
tool, an approach or technique you favour, just make sure you include
#dttip in the tweet.

Great ones will appear in @dailytestingtip and perhaps even an e-book.

This idea was brought to you by Rosie Sherry