As a fan of incremental/iterative methods, I like the idea of test automation. In theory, everything should be retested every release, but with two-week iterations, that simply is not going […]
Lessons from Math – II
What makes a good mathematician? I suspect that a common response would be a strong intellect, but another common response would be a great deal of self-discipline. After all, a […]
Lessons from Math – I
Yesterday, I suggested a topic of “Testing Lessons from Mathematics.” Yet in my recent work, I’m becoming much more holistic about software. If I find a particularly interesting point that […]
A Box Of A Different Color
Better Software Magazine published by artilce “A Box of a Different Color” this month If you like this blog, you would probably enjoy Better Software. They have a free trial […]
Non-Functional Testing?
There’s an interesting discussion going on at the Association For Software Testing discussion list on non-functional testing. Basically, Danny Faught thinks the term is weak and is looking for alternatives. […]
The Age of Reason
I just finished reading Measuring The World which is a wonderful historic novel about the world in the 18th and early 19th century. In many ways, the book explores the […]
Off to vacate
I’ll be in vacation for the next few days, but in the mean time, Paul Carvalho has an interesting post comparing skilled (exploratory) testing to fencing. I thought it was […]
Context Driven
I posted this to the Software-Testing Yahoo Group yesterday, and I thought Creative Chaos Readers might enjoy this. The background is a post saying that context-driven thinking was universal, and […]
Four Schools of Software Testing
Most readers of “Creative Chaos” probably know that allthough I do all things software, my predominant focus is software testing. In fact, a few weeks back Elisabeth Hendrickson labelled my […]
Test or Hardware Architecture ? – I
In the 1960’s, we had the “Software Engineering Crisis”, which was essentially the problem that NATO could not develop software supply to meet demand. The solution, more-or-less, seemed to be […]
I’ve not been welll …
… And will probably continue to be sick. There’s more to come on Agile Jumping the Shark, but it’ll probably later in the weak. Still, in the interim, I wanted […]
A Few Of My Favorite Things – IV
I am vaguely disorganized. No, please don’t jump out of your seat and tell me that I “Have” to get more organized. I don’t buy it. I’ve run a successful […]
Test Estimation
I thought my recent post to the Agile-Testing Discussion list was worth repeating. Here goes: Earlier, Lisa Crispin said Test Estimation was hard, and asked if anyone had a perfect […]
The End of the BlockBuster – II
When Chad Fowler gave his talk, he mentioned that the implied career path for most people in software is to become CIO – perhaps for the ambitious – CEO – […]
The End of the BlockBuster – I
Remember back when everyone saw Batman? I mean everyone. Science Fiction Fans watched it; thrill seekers and horror fans watched it (it had a very dark “joker”); kids who played […]
Testing Computer Software, 3rd Ed
Dr. Cem Kaner has started work on the 3rd edition of his popular sofware testing book by posting a short article here. If you’d like a short introduction to some […]