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April 14, 2017 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 2 Comments

This is a test exercise. U. S. Dollar amount Canadian Dollars Mexican Pesos Euros Equivalent in … Validate Reset Calculate Set to 5 The time is?

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More on the “Attack on the Testing Role”

June 22, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Testing / No Comments

About a month ago I took a slide from James Bach’s Orcas Island Training and posted it to twitter. The internet became very upset, I suspect more from the writing […]

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We’re going to Orcas Island

January 20, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conference, Creative Chaos, Testing, Training / 1 Comment

“The shoemakers children have no shoes” may be a common expression, but it is common because it is true enough, enough of the time. The mechanic’s car is a beater […]

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What have we been up to?

December 1, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conferences, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Reading, Testing / No Comments

It’s been a busy few months at Excelon. The New York Trip, a brief European tour, Justin went to Boston for STPCon, thanksgiving, lots of writing – actually lots and […]

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Footprints in the Sand

March 16, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Holistic/Systems Thinking, Process, Testing, Tools / 1 Comment

I came across a lot of ideas in graduate school. Some, like Test Driven Development, Extreme Programming and Scrum skyrocketed my career forward. Others were models – a way of […]

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What Are People Saying About TestRetreatNYC?

February 28, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Creative Chaos, Testing / 3 Comments

In the three days since we announced TestRetreatNYC in August, we’ve sold half the tickets. Many of the folks attending the conference are coming back; they been to Test Coach […]

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The Software Testing World Cup

February 6, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos, Skill Building, Testing / 2 Comments

Imagine a world test competition, held over the internet, on your continent, in a time zone that is reasonable for you, on a Saturday, with local judges you know and […]

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New Articles — and an announcement

May 14, 2012 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Process, Software Engineering Classics, Strategy, Testing, Writing / 3 Comments
A poster on simplicity

I just got back from interop, the conference for emerging technologies that connect business – from data center to cloud to switches, servers, and software. It was an incredibly busy […]

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Four Testing Strategies

May 7, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Metrics, Testing / 4 Comments

I’ve spent a good deal of time lately thinking about how we frame the problem of software testing – and how we solve it. It impacts how we see the […]

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The Wikitest Framework

May 1, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

UPDATE: I want to do a post on the importance of limiting ambiguity and making sure you have as much meaningful consensus as possible – a counterbalance to my last […]

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100% Test Automation

April 28, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 1 Comment

A recent post I put out to the Agile-Testing List: The original poster asked:> I have been asked to work out a system to make a 100%> automated testing solution […]

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The Nine Forgettings

April 7, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Process, Software Engineering Classics, Testing, Video / No Comments

“If you measure the wrong thing, and you reward the wrong thing, don’t be surprised if you get the wrong thing.” — Lee Copeland Lee’s talk is about 34 minutes […]

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Explaining Exploratory Testing

April 3, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 4 Comments

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I believe it can be a much more effective method of software testing than hard-coded automation or manual scripts, both of which suffer […]

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Extreme QA?

January 24, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

Back in 2002, James Canter and Liz Derr wrote a paper on “Extreme QA.” While I don’t agree with everything in the article, and I think their use of the […]

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Is it a DSL or an API?

January 9, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

One of the “new new” things in developer-centric testing is using Ruby to create customer acceptance tests in a unique, domain specific testing language. Chromatic takes a humorous look at […]

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Lighting Talks Web Page Up –

December 29, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Testing / 1 Comment

I am now officially in recruiting mode for lightning talks to ST&PCon, and have added a web page about lightning talks – here.

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Greased Lightning (Talks)

December 13, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Testing / No Comments

Lightning Talks are ten five-minutes talks in a sixty-minute slot. As a speaker, I enjoy them because they sharpen my mind. There’s no time for an introductory joke, no long […]

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Testing Philosophy II –

December 11, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Rants, Testing / 4 Comments

About every four months, Shrini Kulkarni convinces me to drop the term “Test Automation” from my vocabulary. After all, testing is a creative, thinking process. We can automate some steps […]

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Ruby Vs. Python for Testing

December 10, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 3 Comments

There is an interesting discussion going on on the Agile-Testing Yahoo Group right now, about the differences between Python and Ruby. It is oddly reminiscent of conversation I’ve had a […]

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My theory of software testing – I

December 5, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Rants, Testing / 5 Comments

What’s the right mix of exploratory testing, “planned” manual testing, and test automation? My short answer is “it depends.” Now, you don’t need to point out that “it depends” is […]

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