January 2nd, 2008 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Check out a short article by our very own Julian Harty on stickyminds.com. Here’s the summary…It took eighteen months for Julian Harty to overcome the various challenges of testing mobile wireless applications. In turn, he has learned some valuable l…
October 30th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
(resuming our testing on the toilet posts…)In a previous episode, we extracted methods to simplify testing in Python. But if these extracted methods make the most sense as private class members, how can you write your production code so it doesn’t de…
October 30th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Looks like there some strong support for having the community post on this blog. Great! Please send submissions to testengteam at gmail.com. In the subject line please prefix with “blogme:” to aid in spam filtering. See the 3 basic rules in the previou…
October 28th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorI’d like to offer the readers a chance to post their ideas on this blog.To keep this simple I only have 3 rules:no commercial postings or links to commercial sites,post need to be interesting and p…
October 24th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Markus Clermont, Test Engineering Manager, ZurichIn the last couple of years the practice of testing has undergone more than superficial changes. We have turned our art into engineering, introduced process-models, come up with best-practices,…
October 16th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Marc Kaplan, Test Engineering LeadAt Google, we have infrastructure that is shared between many projects. This infrastructure creates a situation where we have a many dependencies in terms of build requirements, but also in terms of test requ…
October 11th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorWanted to let you know about a partnership Google Test Engineering is doing with the University of California, Irvine. We’ve teamed up with Professor Hadar Ziv to sponsor a course that focuses on pre…
October 8th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Goranka Bjedov, Senior Test EngineerThis post is my best shot at explaining what I do, why I do it, and why I think it is the right thing to do. Performance testing is a category of testing that seems to evoke strong feelings in people: feeli…
October 2nd, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Michael Bachman, Test Engineering ManagerA testing organization’s job is not done with the release of a product. As the software development cycle does not end with the release of the product but has an extension into the post-release diagno…
September 25th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by John Thomas, Software Engineer We thought you might be interested in another article from our internal monthly testing newsletter called CODE GREEN… Originally titled: “Opinion: But it works on my machine!”We spent so much time hear…
September 19th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorWe thought you might be interested in some articles from our internal monthly testing newsletter called CODE GREEN…Many projects at Google have started using or are considering using Selenium. We r…
September 18th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorImportant note for Students: For more information about Google’s campus visit schedule please see this site. If you follow the North America link for instance you can find the Calendar of Events whic…
September 14th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by George Pirocanac, Test Engineering ManagerEarlier Blog entries described the strategy and methodology for testing the functionality of various kinds of applications. The basic approach is to isolate the logic of the application from the exter…
September 12th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorI visited the University of Arizona last night, along with several Googlers, as part of a series of Tech Talks being given at selected schools. The talk was about GFS (Google File System). The audit…
September 6th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering Director Here’s some unsolicited feedback from Kurt Kluever who ended up on his school’s web page (Rochester Institute of Technology). While he was at Google this summer he tested JotSpot. Kurt’s project in…