more about test case reuse
We mostly write test cases that are specifically tied to a single application. This shouldn’t come as any big surprise given that we’ve never expected test cases to have any value outside our immediate...
View Articlegetting away from it all
When you’re on vacation do you think about work? Not thoughts of dread, worry or angst but reflection, planning and problem solving. I just did. Last Sunday I awoke in Seattle to freezing temps and a...
View Articleof moles and tainted peanuts
There was a full page ad for Jif peanut butter in my morning paper that caught my attention. (For those non-US readers, our nation is experiencing a salmonella bacteria outbreak which has been traced...
View Articlethe touring test
(I couldn’t resist the play on Alan Turing’s famous test when naming this testing metaphor.) When I think of software, I naturally think of it in testing terms. In my mind software is made up of...
View Articlelinks you’ve been asking for
I’ve gotten enough requests for links to my interviews, lectures and pointless videos that I am finally tired of responding individually. Here are a few recent ones I have been pointing people to: A...
View Articletour of the month: the intellectual’s tour
As promised, here is the first tour on the tour-of-the-month parade. It’s probably not the best place to start, but it’s finding so many good bugs for so many testers around the company that I wanted...
View Articlelive webinar next week
I am doing another webinar on March 31 which will be hosted by uTest. This is the second webinar I have done for them and I quite enjoyed the first. I have a lot of new material that I have created...
View Articletesting sucks
Bet that got your attention. It’s true, but let me qualify it: Running test cases over and over in the hope that bugs will manifest sucks. It’s boring, uncreative work and since half the world thinks...
View Articletour of the month: the landmark tour
Every location that covets tourists must have some good reasons for them to come. For Las Vegas it’s the casinos and the strip, for Amsterdam it’s the coffee shops and red light district, for Egypt...
View Articletour of the month: the exit-stage-right tour
All tours much eventually come to an end and thus it is with my tour with Microsoft. I have resigned my position and am leaving the company. It was a great ride. But the tours will continue. My book...
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