Thomas Mantsch

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QA Engineer at Caplin Systems. Passionate about Software Development, Quality Assurance and Agile Methodologies.
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23 Jul 2012
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Mutation Testing – Killed or Survived?

Introduction This blog is a follow up from “Why 100% Test Coverage is not enough“. Mutation Testing is a method of software testing where the source code gets modified step by step. If there are no failing tests after a mutation to the code it is considered defective, meaning that…

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8 May 2012
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Why 100% Code Coverage is not enough

Why 100% Code Coverage is not enough

Introduction When it comes to software testing and code quality it is not always clear what the Test Coverage is – respectively what areas of the application need more attention regarding testing. Questions like: – Do we have enough tests? – Do the tests cover enough paths of the code?…

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30 Mar 2012
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Pairwise Testing

Pairwise Testing

Recently we had a discussion about testing all possible combinations within a FX Trade Ticket. To give a context, a trade ticket consists of several parameters like: – Trade Type (SPOT, FORWARD, SWAP, TIMEOPTION) – Currency Pair (BASE, TERM) – Direction (BUY, SELL) If we combine all possibilities we will…

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9 Feb 2012
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QA Brown Bag Sessions

QA Brown Bag Sessions

A Brown Bag session, seminar or lunch is a very informal meeting held during a lunch break to discuss or present various topics. Considering the QA team is distributed across different project teams, it is not always easy to keep everyone up to date. Beyond our regular QA team meetings…

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20 Dec 2011
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Technical and Non-Technical aspects of Test Automation

Technical and Non-Technical aspects of Test Automation

Test Automation is an essential part of software testing. Especially these days where everything is about agile development and agile processes. Short iterations and flexibility make it crucial to have an efficient Test Automation strategy in place. Test Automation in general is: • dynamically set up preconditions • produce test…

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2 Nov 2011
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What Jasmine thinks of a Given-When-Then syntax

What Jasmine thinks of a Given-When-Then syntax

May I introduce you to Jasmine! Jasmine BDD is a test automation framework to test JavaScript code. It is designed for Behaviour Driven Development by using specifications to describe the aim of a test in plain English language. Example of a Jasmine test: it(“makes testing JavaScript awesome!”, function() { //…

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