Archive for February, 2009

testing software product interoperability

I have been trying to write on product interoperability for quite sometime. So here it goes. What do we mean by product interoperability? In my opinion, interoperability of a product is its ability to function while different variables of its environment – software as well as hardware – are changed. Testing software interoperability assumes more [...]


Reproducing a bug ….the eternal quest

There are some really cliched problems which software testers and consqeuently software developers face as part of their job. Reproducing a bug comes right there among the top of that list. Recently,  I faced one such instance where I was at my wits end to reproduce a bug – needless to say, it wasted precious [...]


Setting up TestLink on Linux

I was assigned the responsibility of setting up Test Link (TL) on my network and import test cases from another instance of TL running elsewhere. It was quite simple but I would still like to put it down just in case someone runs into issues or better still if someone has suggestions – More than welcome. [...]