Speaker presentation: Radoslaw Smilgin

by Jørgen Austvk and Tor Stålhane

Radoslaw used to be a developer but has now converted to testing. He is working as a test consultant and instructor for testerzy.pl – Poland’s test web portal. He is into testing because he loves to hunt bugs – the preparations, the search, the kill and – finally – proving that they are gone forever. However, he dislikes to be in the same project and to run the same tests for a long time. The problem is that it becomes too repetitious. Thus, being a test consultant it the perfect job for him. Then again, he just became a father – which is a pretty long term project.

In Radoslaw’s opinion, there hasn’t been all that much changes in the field of testing for the last few years. On the other hand, it would be good if some of the new ideas were used more often. As an example, he would like full traceability – from requirements to tests, from tests to defects and back to be used more often. In addition, the principles of agile testing, with its strong focus on daily builds and test automation deserve more attention in the testing community.

For free tools, Radoslaw recommends the bug tracking tools Mantis and Bugzilla. In his experience these two tools solve 50% of the testing problems within most projects that he has participated in. He is not a big fan of capture-reply test automation, as test script creation is not easy and designing and wring good test scripts require a lot of work and considerations.

In his presentation, Radoslaw will talk about generating test data for data driven testing. Good test data is an absolute “must” for effective tests. The presentation should be attended by testers and developers that want to improve their test coverage.