Oct/080
Software Testing Tips & Tricks E-Book Released!
My second e-book is finally ready!
I decided to continue the Tips & Tricks series, this time the book is about software testing and is not based on my blog writings. It covers software testing concepts which I think are the most important. Working on this book was again a great small journey in the land of writing, I’m still learning, but I hope you can recognize a lot improvement since my last e-book. 
Take a look at the table of contents :
- Introduction
- General Testing Practices
- Basic Unit Testing
- Software Integrated Testing
- Regression Testing
- Stress Testing
- Testing Code Features
- Testing Graphics Features
- Automated Testing
- Generated Tests
Price : 10,00 USD – With 28 Day Money Back Guarantee!
I also lowered my earlier e-book’s, Software Development Tips & Tricks, price down to 10,00 USD.
Link : E-Books
Have fun!
Oct/080
Automation In Project Management
Overview
Automation is usually used by engineers to reduce the need of manual work on different kind of recurring tasks like :
- Testing
- Software Releases
- Etc.
But, it can also help project management for example to collect data & produce reports. Currently at work I use automation for :
- Update our sprint daily burndown excel. I have setup a system that will update it everyday at 4PM.
- Produce reports from our project tracking data. My system fetches the data from our project database (which contains tasks, milestones, etc.) and automatically produces projected dates, days left, days used, number of wrong estimations, how much work left in art / code, etc.
Why to use automation?
- You don’t have to spent a lot time doing things manually.
- Less errors, when you do things manually it is very easy to do something wrong.
- Easier to produce more critical data.
- and so on…
Where to start?
I currently like to write these things myself by using for example python, but there are also ready scripts and programs out there to help you to setup automated systems. Also if you happen to use Excel you can automate a lot of tasks in there -> Excel can even fetch data from your database or website. Learn to use your tools, if there are things that could be automated and you notice doing them regularly just do it and see how it helps you.
My experience :
During the time I have been using these I have already saved many days and reduced the number of errors in my reports & other data in general. The sad thing is that I see many managers still doing these things manually. If they would use automation they would have a lot more time to help the team instead of calculating some data that really doesn’t help to team to get the product ready. Nowadays I can use most of time helping the team to build the product itself by helping in programming and in all kind of support they need – I’m there for the team, they tell me what to do, not the other way around. This way I also know the product a lot better… there are loads of good points why to use automation to help you, so why wouldn’t you use it?