Quality Assurance Testing | About Joe Burns

About

February 15th, 2010 by Joe Burns

Joe-Burns, CAI Quality Assurance Testing Expert

Joe-Burns, CAI Quality Assurance Expert

Joe Burns has over 20 years experience in developing and implementing products and services for the quality assurance industry. He is an entrepreneur who enjoys building world-class QA solutions and sharing his real life experiences with audiences. Joe founded a software firm that developed testing products, which are now being commercially sold worldwide and integrated with companies like IBM, TIBCO, and webMethods. This product is currently on the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integration Testing.

When not working, Joe enjoys spending time with his wife and children, either at the beach or on a baseball field.

Quality Assurance Testing Q&A

If you have any questions about the blog content or specific questions on how CAI's Quality Assurance Testing can help your organization, "Ask Joe."

Question :

Joe: What has your experiece been with open Source Tools? i.e. Selenium?

Answer :

Kristen, Good question. The increased use of open source tools is growing in the enterprise space. Many organizations are taking advantage of these tools. Selenium in particular is an excellent GUI capture and playback tool. Remember regardless of open so...

Question :

Joe, How effective is testing when we've got legacy systems to integrate with new dashboards--all in a secure environment? Thanks for the info.

Answer :

Dave, The important key is understanding your integration points. These integration points can be "file based interfaces" or even wrappered "SOA" Architecture. Once you have an understanding of these interfaces, you then need to develop a Integration Test P...

Question :

My organization is looking to incorporate automated testing into our monthly release process to reduce our testing cycle time. We are just starting to create a strategy for introducing automation, and I'm looking for some tips on how to approach automation and where to...

Answer :

Scott, Many companies make the mistake of "happy capture" of functional scripts. The key is developing a "framework" that is based on components (i.e. a single logon test script that is parameter driven). In addition, pick a key area that does not have alot of ...