Month: June 2017 | Michaelpedia Galactica

Posted on June 25, 2017 by status

Good news – I haven’t lost the ability to write hilarious error messages. “Hilarious.” […]

Good news

Posted on June 25, 2017 (January 27, 2018) by status

I haven’t lost the ability to write hilarious error messages. “Hilarious.” […]

At the core, the tool allows users (developers/testers) to load a web-service description and select variables interesting for testing. Users will also supply or construct a model describing the correct outcomes. With this information, the tool executes tests for all combinations of input parameters, and compares outcomes with the known good values. Based on this, […]

Vaporware Focus: Tool-support for Model-based Testing

Posted on June 24, 2017 (May 18, 2018) by Michael

I motivated the need for a user-friendly tool supporting model-based testing in practice in a previous post. The gist is that industry best-practice relies on logical test-cases rather than testing everything, and that is bad for software quality. The reason, I theorize, is that model-based testing is still a bit too academic, and requires a […]

Advantages and Disadvantages of Model-based Testing

Posted on June 23, 2017 by status

I’m working on a project where testing is important. We had a predecessor project with the same customer, and testing was also considered important at that time. During the previous project, I had problems communicating with the test coordinator; for one thing, we put importance on wildly different things. In the current project, we have […]