Jennifer Moebius

As promised, Google has made the slides and video presentations from GTAC 2009 (Google Test Automation Conference) available on the GTAC website and on YouTube. This year’s GTAC was a huge success! The theme was “Testing for the Web,” and now anyone can watch these leading thinke... (more)

With only three days left in our week-long Q4 E-tailer Bug Battle, 350+ bugs have already been reported by nearly 100 testers from around the globe. While testers may not be experiencing the all-too-familiar “shop ’til you drop” phenomenon, there’s been no shortage of crowds, ent... (more)

Just a quick note to share some good news from inside the halls of uTest.  On Friday night, our marketing team attended the awards event of the SNCR at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA.  This event included blue-chip brands like HP, Intel and Stanford University, as well... (more)

Quick update from the (bug) battlefield:  We’re 40 hours into our Q4 Bug Battle competition between Amazon, Walmart.com and Target.com, and we’ve already had almost 200 bugs reported by 60+ testers from around the globe.  It’s still early (the competition ends Wednesday, November... (more)

Long lines, screaming kids, rude employees, rip-off prices, poor selections – all things of holiday’s past. That’s because virtually every major retailer has now set up shop online. But just because holiday shopping can be done from the comfort of one’s own living room, doesn’t m... (more)

Mobile bugs are becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and iPhone users are the latest to be affected by buggy software.  Techcrunch reported yesterday that a bug in Safari causes it to consume bandwidth even when it’s closed.  The problem arises with the use of Motion JPEG (or M-... (more)

While scanning Wired.com this weekend, I came across an article that’s scary enough to fit right in with Halloween.  Most security (Click to enlarge chart) studies address issues in operating systems, browsers or other core systems.  This one, however, addressed the uber-popular ... (more)

I can’t take credit for the pun in the title (it’s from The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror*) but it fit so well with today’s theme, I just couldn’t help myself. That’s right, it’s Halloweekend (that lame pun is mine). And so despite the warnings from that old guy in Pet Sematary ... (more)

Plugins have long been a double edged sword for software.  On the one hand they make software more flexible than it would be otherwise.  On the other hand, plugins can be poorly maintained and full of bugs.  That second issue is so much of a problem that a little while back I wro... (more)

Last night, our development team unleashed version 2.7 of the uTest platform.  This release includes some great enhancements – many of which were based on requests from our customers.  We’re especially excited about a few features in particular: Enhanced Mobile Releases Mobile a... (more)

Mobile is the next great frontier for games, music, media and more.  In fact, Gartner says that  more than 139 million smartphones were sold last year.  And the phone makers aren’t slowing down:  Apple is planning to launch the iPhone into the Chinese market and a more affordable... (more)

Having grilled some of the top minds in the software business, this installment of Testing the Limits will deviate slightly from the norm. With us this month is John Winsor – author, entrepreneur and crowdsourcing expert. After a successful career as a journalist and magazine pu... (more)

Earlier this week, several members of the uTest team took in the opening reception of Software Test & Performance’s STPCon event.  We overheard some great conversations, and even jumped into the fray a few times ourselves.  It was a lively crowd and a great venue (the Hyatt Regen... (more)

Most bugs are never so terrible that they call into question the very nature of causality in the universe.  But for engineers working on the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, it may be necessary to rethink their assumptions about cause and effect. For those who don’t know, the LHC ... (more)

Calling all New England QA and software testing professionals! We will be co-hosting a free tester meetup with STP (Software Test & Performance) as part of the kickoff reception for their big event, STPCon 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.  This meetup will be Wednesday, Octobe... (more)

Thanks to you, uTest blog traffic has more than doubled since the beginning of ‘09.  And since our relaunch in mid-May, we’ve use this space to share breaking industry news, testing events and meetups, uTest company info, and original content from around the QA industry through o... (more)

We’re happy to have Brian Rock as our Guest Blogger this month. A resident of Austin, Texas, Brian has brought more than 10 years of software engineering and leadership experience to the uTest community (where he is among the most active members). Prior to his software days, Bria... (more)

Speaking of the mobile app market blowing up, I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a great mobile event: Under the Radar on 11/19 in Mountain View, CA. From global carriers and handset manufacturers to media companies, branding partners, press and VCs — anyone who’s anyone... (more)

Calling all Massachusetts-based startups, entrepreneurs and innovators! Tonight is October’s Mass Innovation Night down at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation (Moody Street, Waltham). If you’re in the area, it’s a good event.  We’ll be there, so if you see a uTest ... (more)

Do you own a Sidekick mobile phone (AKA the Danger Hiptop)?  Then please accept my condolences while I describe the pain and suffering you’ve experienced over the past few days. The Sidekick is made by Danger, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2008.  As one of T-Mobile’s flagsh... (more)