Interview With Griffin Jones
Hi Griffin, it has been an honour to interview for this special issue of Tea-time with Testers. Please tell us how have you been and what are you up to? It is nice to talk with you again – I’ve been very busy. Since we...
Untangling Testability
In this article, I’ll share the story of how my understanding of testability has evolved over the last fifteen years. Hopefully, once you’ve read the post you’ll share my enthusiasm for all things testability. I’ve discovered that a whole team focus on testability is one...
Excellence In Testing, Today More Than Ever
What is excellence? Most places will define excellence as outstanding, being extremely good, the quality of excelling at something, or being the best at what you do. All these are good definitions, but when I look at testing and specifically at excellence in testing, I...
What Do We Really Mean When We Say Quality?
How does your team or organization measure quality? People often equate testing to good quality or ‘quality assurance’, but if you have good testing practices, does that mean you have a good quality product? Many teams measure process quality and don’t realize they forget about...
Enlightening In Testing
Something about knowledge. What you cannot know E. W. Dijkstra expressed this principle of testing in 1969: Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs. Dijkstra was discussing testing with researchers focused on finding ways to prove that code was working. They were in...
Over A Cup Of Tea With Jerry Weinberg
“Your ideal form of influence is first to help people see their world more clearly, and then to let them decide what to do next”, is what I have learned from him and that’s how he has been helping many others like myself. “I don’t...
Do We Need Batman If We Have Testers?
They say interesting things happen to you when you expect the least. I had such an interesting experience lately. If you are active on Twitter, some of you might have noticed my reports on Test Leadership Congress 2020. For those who don’t know, I am...
A Cup Of Tea With Michael Bolton
He has been travelling the world teaching the craft of software testing to many testers. He has specialized in courses on Rapid Software Testing – which he co-authored with James Bach. He is also a prolific writer, and his publications include hundreds of articles, papers...
Over A Cup Of Tea With James Marcus Bach
A guy who left his schooling at an early age and started as a video game programmer is now an esteemed software tester, author, trainer, and consultant. He is a proponent of exploratory testing and the Context-Driven School of software testing and is credited with...