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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]