The Challenge for Java Programmers. Check Your Skills!

Testing new Java programmers who want to work in Oxagile we use different methods: interviewing, multiple-choice questions etc. We think that “classical” approaches to recruiting should be combined with new breakthrough technologies.

Let’s take certification of Java programmers as an example. It is well known that many tests for certification contain a large number of issues with different variants of answers (so called multiple-choice questions). Such tests are not very effective, because probationers can easily find many answers concerning API reading documentation or source code. In this way we can’t test their ability to program, which largely consists of the ability to think logical and to formulate algorithms in a proper way.

So betterprogramming.com, the company from San Francisco, decided to fix this problem. Its specialists published test that offers to solve several problems instead of answering the list of questions. Java programmers expected to implement some simple algorithms. Source code, written by a developer can be executed on the server, and then user can get his/her results (they depend on submitted code and time).

Should there be a separate methodology for testing?

There are a lot of words said about web development and functional programming methodologies. Usually they are oriented to development mostly and do not deal very much with testing. So should testing have a separate methodology?

It is not a secret that quality software is one of the most important requirements for a customer. It often doesn’t matter the timeframe or even the budget of the project, but whether the end users will be pleased with the product developed. So the importance of testing is great and on some projects good testing is even more valuable than good development. Anyway this doesn’t mean that testing should have a separate methodology. As testing is a very agile and flexible process, which closely connected with web application development, there should be the same methodology for testing as for development.

Testing is flexible enough to choose the best process to achieve the result easily and quickly. It can be various, depending on the development methodology, project team specification and customer’s goals.
If you think of a separate testing methodology – just take all the best practices together and work out your own testing methodology!

Using .NET for Software Testing Automation

Nowadays software testing is a rapidly growing up sphere. And software testing engineers may be found employed in different sectors. Lots of methodologies are widely known:
-Agile testing;
-Extreme testing;
-Scrum testing;
-White Box testing;
-Traditional Black Box testing and others.

The Black Box testing is the most popular and called for in many companies around the world. For years experts had been developing different costly commercial tools to lessen testing efforts and to increase the efficiency and quality of software testing, but lots of them were nonviable in practice. Later in 2001, some testing experts offered to create the software utilities for their manual-and tool-automated testing efforts.