TestLab² blog posts

Network issues emulation using WANem

One of the TestLab² customers recently asked for a detailed test of his custom installer with optional run-time downloads on various Internet connections. It was a pleasant surprise to see that our default wired and wireless connections are too good to cause any issues with the downloader, so we went for special tools. For some reason, software emulators are way less popular then hardware ones (which are cool, of course, but totally out of budget).

One of them became a favorite: WANem. I’d like to make an overview of it and provide a quick start-up tutorial.

Posted by Alexander on Sep 09, 2011

8 free tools for your site, you probably haven't seen before

I've gathered a few website checking/testing tools that are available for free and, from my point of view, are rather useful. I use almost all of them from time to time, as for our own websites so during tests for our customers.

Posted by Alexander on Jun 13, 2010

Testing Man-Hours

This article was originally created by Sergey Martinenko and posted in his blog http://blog.shumoos.com/archives/192, November 12 2009.
We've decided to translate the article into English and publish it, for the issues the author touches upon are rather burning and crucial, and for the conclusion is extremely significant: there is no unambiguous and true programmers-testers ratio for a project.

I started working on this article after I’d been asked to take part in a survey on programmers-testers ratio. So I decided to wait for the results and then analyze everything in detail.

Posted by Alexander on May 11, 2010

1k passed

We've silently crossed the 1000 bugs limit (already 1130, in fact), approximately for half a year.
The average ratio is 23 bugs per project, however this stat parameter is not correct, because of different project scale and type.

Posted by Alexander on Mar 26, 2010

Server-side stuff

Today's night we've moved all our web systems from "A Small Orange" hosting provider to a dedicated server supplied by "QuickWeb".
We're expecting lower server response time as well as higher uptime.

We've also closed our side project news.testlab2.com (QA and software testing newsfeed aggregator) due to its low popularity. Sad, but true.

Technical stuff
You can check that you're working with a new server by first octet of its IP address, it should start from 66.

Posted by Alexander on Feb 14, 2010