My latest post to the agile-testing yahoo group:Ben Simo asks how we can talk testing without talking philosophy. If you will permit me, I will try to expand on that. […]
Plagarism?
I got an email today with a link to this post, pointing out that the vast majority of the material was simply taken from my site without attribution. In “the […]
Quality, Agility, Maturity, and Discipline
A few weeks back, James Bach made a post on the death of quality. In the comments, Michael Butler wrote: I think we should toss the word ‘quality’, period. Instead, […]
Learning from Management
Business Management is a new field that evolved in the 20th century – that, for the most part, has a jump on software development by about fifty years. This weekend, […]
The creative tester
My latest post to the Agile-Testing List: I heard an interesting line awhile back from James Bach; I will paraphrase him. If I recall correctly, Bach’s argument was they every […]
You wake up one morning and …
Over the past eighteen months, I’ve slowly stopped referring to myself as a dev/tester, and, instead, now refer to myself as a tester/developer. In other news, I’m pretty sure the […]
Certification – III
I wanted to write something on certification for April Fool’s Day but Scott Ambler beat me to it. (Shakes Fist at Scott!) Actually, for something serious: In theory, I am […]
World Agile Qualification Board – II
When I got my first impression of this group, I was very careful to hold back public judgement. It looked really bad, but I wanted to find out more before […]
The World Agile Certification Board
It turns out there’s a group called the world agile certification board that is going to, ta-da, certify agile developers and testers and such. You can google them; I won’t […]
Big Testing Up Front
Hey, if I don’t have time to create content, can I re-use it? My latest post to the Agile-Testing Discussion Group: — In agile-testing@yahoogroups.com, Steven Gordon wrote:Again, that is not […]
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet
The mini-semester starts next week and I am teaching IS 171 at Calvin College; Soccer Coaching starts next week, oh, and the whole family is sick, there’s that day job […]
The psychology of (test) history
In yesterday’s post, I introduced the idea of history of mathematics, and how it might be applied to testing. I followed that up with my own list of important publications […]
History of Ideas in Software Testing
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory. Oh, it’s a good book. I think the authors deserve serious applause […]
GUI-Driving Tools
I posted this as a comment on James Bach’s Blog and thought it was worth sharing here: Not too long ago I had to give a demo of a GUI-Driving […]
What’s an SDET – III – Microsoft Responds
I was very pleased to hear from the “How We Test Software At Microsoft” authors in the comments section. (Just between us, I suspect it was Alan Page) As I […]
What’s an SDET – II
Yesterday I discussed the same test triangle – and pointed out that the test focused solely on inputs and expected results, that it was a very dev-ish test. I’d like […]
Nifty Triangle Test Example
The triangle test is considered by many a “classic” example of a software test challenge. In fact, I believe it goes all the way back to Glenford Meyer’s The Art […]
Grand Rapid’s Tester’s Round Table
I’m organizing an informal discussion of software testing in West Michigan. I’ve planned the first meeting Monday, April 27th at Calvin College at lunch – 12:00-1:00. The focus will be […]
The Security Issue
We just wrapped up an interview for the Security issue of Software Test and Performance. Gosh, I wish I could use this: (For this and similar web comics, see xkcd.com […]
How to be a first-class citizen as a Tester
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. […]