Let’s say you don’t get involved “up front.” Let’s say you are not invited to the big meeting. No, you don’t have executive buy-in, nor are you the process police. […]
Yay! March ST&P is online!
Well that didn’t take long. The March Issue of Software Test And Performance Magazine is available on-line for free. Download it here. Our column appears on page nine.
He’s not dead yet (I’m feeling better)
What could possibly happen to Matt Heusser that he wouldn’t blog for a couple weeks? Well, try the flu – which found it’s way into my lungs and became bronchitis. […]
What’s an SDET, Again?
I just got my copy of How We Test Software at Microsoft in the mail. Weighing in at 420 pages, it will be awhile before I can digest the whole […]
Time and Attention
The agile movement is beginning to recognize the importance of tech debt, the value of exploratory testing, how distributed development can be done in an Agile way, and the importance […]
February ST&P is out!
Chris McMahon and I cover Service-Oriented Architectures in this issue of STPedia, which, yes, you can download for free. Our column appears on page 18.
Metrics
Michael Bolton just did a wonderful blog post that summarizes his position on metrics – it is very close to my own. I highly recommend that you not only read […]
Black-Belt Testing Challenge – III
About a month ago I threw out a black-belt testing challenge. This one was a little bit more involved than tests in the pasts – I designed it to both […]
Context or what?
There’s been a lot of conversations recently on twitter about context. Specifically, the context-driven-school of software testing, which says that the way we do our work should be (strongly) influenced […]
Laws of Software Development
Gerald M. Weinberg has two books Secrets of Consulting and More Secrets of Consulting that have a number of guides, rules of thumb, advice, rubrics, and so on. I found […]
Agile Testing Preview
If you’d like to hear a basic seat-of-the-pants overview of my current thinking on agile testing, you might want to check out my interview with David Starr on his podcast […]
Should I automate a test for tab order?
We’ve been discussing tab-order tests on my discussion list, SW-Improve, and also the Software Testing Yahoo Group. Elisabeth Hendrickson (or “ESH”, for short) put out a post on SW-IMPROVE that […]
CYA’s don’t
John McConda posted to the Software-Testing Yahoo Group yesterday, asking if it made sense to get rid of a test suite that took 2 people full time to maintain – […]
30th Anniversary of the Spreadsheet
On the Software-Testing Yahoo Group lately, we’ve been debating the pros and cons of W. Edwards Deming. Among that group, I am surprisingly pro-Deming. Here’s a quote from his wikipedia […]
January ST&Pedia in the mail (and, ah, intarwebs)
The January issue of Software Test&Performance Magazine is out. You can download it now; (for free) our column, which covers Application Lifecycle Management tools and Service-Oriented-Architectures, appears on page 28.
This is how we do it …
Adina Levin, our VP of Products, presented “how we develop software at Socialtext” yesterday at a meeting of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Slides: Socialtext Distributed Agile View SlideShare […]
Black-belt testing challenge – II
(A hint) The challenge involves watching a video that introduces a simple web-based application, and describes a testing strategy – then identifying your own testing strategy for the same web-based […]
Black-belt testing challenge
I’ve got a black-belt thinking analysis problem I am working on. It is non-trivial; your expected involvement would be on the order of 1.5 hours. At this point, /I/ am […]
James Bach on Test Improvement
James is one of the best-known skilled testers in the world – and he can explain his ideas well. Those three things are key: 1) He’s made an effort to […]
New Blog Up
Happy New Year! It’s time to try something new! I’ve decided to try a little experiment and split my blog, based on my interests. Creative Chaos will remain an exploration […]