February 2nd, 2012 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerThis will be my last post on this blog. Tomorrow is my last day at Google. It was a great ride and a great pleasure to work alongside such brilliant engineers. I will hand over this blog to another test director and then find a new pl…
December 13th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerThe publishing industry may be slow, but eventually they deliver. Amazon is now listing How Google Tests Software that I wrote with Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo for presale. Find it at: http://goo.gl/Dg3qG
November 17th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By Jason ArbonAt GTAC, folks asked how well the Record/Playback (RPF) works in the Browser Integrated Test Environment (BITE). We were originally skeptical ourselves, but figured somebody should try. Here is some anecdotal data and some background on h…
November 15th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerAll the GTAC 2011 talks are now available at http://www.gtac.biz/talks and also up on You Tube. A hearty thanks to all the speakers who helped make this the best GTAC ever. Enjoy!
October 25th, 2011 | by Ibrahim (Google) | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By Ekaterina Kamenskaya, Software Engineer in Test, YouTubeToday we introduce the Javascript coverage analysis tool, ScriptCover. It is a Chrome extension that provides line-by-line Javascript code coverage statistics for web pages in real time without…
October 19th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By Jim ReardonThe test plan is dead!Well, hopefully. At a STAR West session this past week, James Whittaker asked a group of test professionals about test plans. His first question: “How many people here write test plans?” About 8…
October 17th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By Aaron JacobsGoogle JS Test is a JavaScript unit testing framework that runs on the V8 JavaScript Engine, the same open source project that is responsible for Google Chrome’s super-fast JS execution speed. Google JS Test is used internall…
October 12th, 2011 | by Unknown | published in Google Testing
In a time when more and more of the web is becoming streamlined, the process of filing bugs for websites remains tedious and manual. Find an issue. Switch to your bug system window. Fill out boilerplate descriptions of the problem. Switch back to the b…
October 6th, 2011 | by Ibrahim (Google) | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By Richard BustamanteAre you a website developer that wants to know if Chrome updates will break your website before they reach the stable release channel? Have you ever wished there was an easy way to compare how your website appears in all channels o…
September 26th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerGoogle Dev Days in Brazil and Argentina are over (sigh) and now I turn my attention to STAR West in Anaheim. Unfortunately, it is too late to register for my tutorials as I was informed both are sold out.If you attend STAR, please tak…
September 12th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerThe GTAC agenda is now finalized and available at: http://www.gtac.biz/agenda. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. Stay tuned to this blog for updates to any pre- and post- events.
September 1st, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerAnything in software development that takes ten minutes or less to perform is either trivial or is not worth doing in the first place. If you take this rule of thumb at face value, where do you place test planning? Certainly it takes …
August 19th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By James WhittakerGoogle Developer Day is gearing up for a fantastic fall season of tours that crawl the continents. And a surprise this year … yours truly will be the keynote for the Developer Day in Sao Paulo Brazil and Buenos Aires Argentina in Se…
August 18th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
We’ve completed the agenda for GTAC 2011 and are in the process of notifying accepted speakers and attendees. Once we have firm accepts we’ll be publicizing the agenda.
August 16th, 2011 | by Alberto Savoia | published in Google Testing
Have you ever poured your heart and soul and blood, sweat and tears to help test and perfect a product that, after launch, flopped miserably? Not because it was not working right (you tested the snot out of it), but because it was not the right produc…
