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...
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...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Testing Part 2
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing (ET) is the complete misunderstanding of what is meant by the term. In this series of articles, I share the concerns that have arisen whilst implementing ET and some potential...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Testing Part 3
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing (ET) is the complete misunderstanding of what is meant by the term. In this series of articles, I‘ve shared the concerns that have arisen whilst implementing ET and some potential...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Test Part 1
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing is the complete m also trying it for the first time. Three years ago I was the first test manager in my company (to my knowledge) to formally introduce Exploratory...
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...