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Network issues emulation using WANem

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Testing Man-Hours

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

1k passed

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Server-side stuff

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

TestRail review

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of such tools is what I'd like to inform you about — the TestRail we've implemented in TestLab² recently. The tool was found so good that I could not help sharing something as useful as this with you.

Dilbert is right (as usually)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Actually, a very truthful strip, lots of people rely on luck instead of knowledge.

December 2009 news

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We've got some news to announce:

New website design finally rolled out. We've spend way more time than was expected but I'm sure the result was worth the effort. Go, check it out and tell us your thoughts. I would like to credit our awesome designer Victor Cherniavskiy and front-end developer Serge Puzankov. We would have never achieved such results without them, thanks guys!
We've styled our news aggregator to comply it with main website design. This blog will be updated soon too.

We are planning to finish all current orders this year, celebrate New Year and Christmas (probably since 30 of December 2009 till 03 of January 2010) and then finally start MMOP (Massive Multiplayer Online Promotion) that that we've been planning more than two months.
Stay tuned and don't forget to book some time slots for your product testing round, the early bird catches the worm!

Side project: news aggregation

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Finally we're on slicing stage for our new design. And while special people do special things with it I've decided to make a simple side sub-project for TestLab² called News.

It's a simple news aggregator, tailored to grab all important news about software testing and quality assurance and merge them into one feed. Also, it has a nice preview of that news.
TestLab² news are now located on news.testlab2.com. Alternatively you directly subscribe to merged feed using your favorite feed reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tl2news.

Soon it will be powered with non-stock design and, basing on first stats, we will update the feeds DB with new ones wiping out the not-so-good sources.

Associations and communities

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We're planning to invade the rest of software business communities we're not in yet:

JoelOnSoftware forums: true
Business of Software on Ning: true
OISV: true
SWRUS: true
ASP: false
ISDEF: false

Any suggestions, have we missed any of them?