Edward de Bono, in his Lateral Thinking books, makes a strong connection between humour and creativity. Creativity is key to testing, but jokes? Well, the punchline for a joke could… Read More +
Words are dangerous things. We think we know what they mean, but really I know what a word means to me. I don’t know what it means to you, and… Read More +
What is a Mind Map? A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. It can be called as a visual thinking tool. A Mind map allows complex… Read More +
You might not think it but Role Play games can contribute a lot to teach you how to improve testing skills. First contact I first started playing roleplaying games when… Read More +
For all the products we build, test and deliver, a good – great - user experience is vital to the success of our projects and organisations. We need to understand… Read More +
Words are dangerous things. We think we know what they mean, but really I know what a word means to me. I don't know what it means to you, and… Read More +
Many different roles contribute to building software: product owners, business specialists, testers. Yet knowledge of programming keeps these roles at a distance. In this webinar, Maaret will discuss a new… Read More +
OK, here goes. New to this blog stuff, so you'll have to bear with me. I have a question I want to answer. What is a software tester? So many… Read More +
Software Testing is always looked at in a different way by the diverse companies that depend on websites, web applications, and enterprise applications for business operations in today's rapidly changing… Read More +
The core of any business is the underlying infrastructure. The IT landscape is constantly evolving with frequent changes in OS, browsers, firmware and drivers. Infrastructure /Data centers becoming huge and… Read More +
This is the third part of the transcript of a conversation about the relationship between joking and testing. The jokers were Jerry Weinberg (JW), Michael Bolton (MB), James Lyndsay (JL), Damian Synadinos (DS), and me (JT). This blog post first… Read More +
This is the second part of the transcript of a conversation about the relationship between joking and testing. The jokers were Jerry Weinberg (JW), Michael Bolton (MB), James Lyndsay (JL), Damian Synadinos (DS), and me (JT). This blog post first… Read More +
At the tail end of his recent interview at System Smarts Jerry Weinberg talked about the aha! moment of discovery and its relationship to humour: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Because… Read More +
This eBook contains chapter 3, ‘Roles and Competencies’, from the testing book ‘More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team’. Here the authors describe how teams that succeed in creating high-quality… Read More +
On Tuesday 5th, Rikard Edgren hosted a webinar entitled: Good Testers are Often Lucky – using serendipity in software testing (about how to increase the chances of finding valuable things we weren’t… Read More +
When I read this year’s EuroSTAR Conference theme - “Learning to test, testing to learn” - I thought about the possible most important thing I’ve learned through my testing career… Read More +
History is full of unsinkable ships. The further our technology advances, the more “unsinkable” our ships appear to be. Software bugs however, (or icebergs, in our thin metaphor), are not… Read More +
In a sampling business like testing, it’s no wonder that serendipity is a key factor. But testers seldom take pride in this “luck”, as they are unaware of all skill… Read More +
Unconventional Wisdom “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers Welcome to my Unconventional Wisdom blog. Much… Read More +
You often see them on LinkedIn: project managers daring to “sell” themselves as test managers. Sell might be the right word, because apparently, there are companies to which this combination… Read More +
Unconventional Wisdom "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so." - Will Rogers Welcome to the next issue of my Unconventional… Read More +
A new engagement is a time of reflections, learning’s from the past with a resolve for the future. Over the last decade while working on testing assessments with consultants who… Read More +
I have been fortunate to get the opportunity to work with an extremely smart group of non English speaking native language speakers from various countries, in my role as an… Read More +
Passive behaviour is a factor leading to defects, inefficiency, and security vulnerabilities in IT systems. As modern humans we mainly rely on three coping behaviours, two from our primitive past… Read More +
We hear a lot these days about how testers should learn to code, become more technical, and have more development orientated skills. Unless you came into software testing as a… Read More +
This paper supports the ‘Programming for Testers. It’s Easy.’ webinar. With the advent of agile approaches to development testers are facing ever increasing pressure to take a more active… Read More +
It’s an all-too-familiar scene. You’re approaching the end of the current sprint. You’ve had some difficulties and delays along the way, but aside from completing the testing of the final… Read More +
TEST Huddle is all about testers chatting about different aspects of testing. From test cases to the best automation tool to the best books on testing, there is always something… Read More +
I've been reading about game development lately. It's fascinating. I’m sure there is much that conventional developers and testers could learn from the games industry. Designers need to know their… Read More +
Mind maps are unstructured way of taking notes. Usage of Mindmaps will always enable us to effectively organise the information/thoughts and would make any process easier. The beauty of the… Read More +
When I started in my current job last year, it brought positive changes and new challenges. I went from testing big and complex bank and financial systems, to testing apps… Read More +
Every decision we make, including in testing has economic benefits and costs but what is the economic cost of software testing? The Economics of Testing What makes us professional? I’ve… Read More +
Paul Gerrard, gentle host of the Eurostar Conference this year, challenged me. He challenged me good. Initially I was asked to deliver “Testing in the age of distraction”, my presentation from last… Read More +
The demand for quality assurance skills is on the rise. However, the talent pool may be shallower than business leaders realise. Quality assurance (QA for short) efforts have been a… Read More +
This short talk features Martin Pol, Polteq, discussing his career in software testing and what he has learned. This video was recorded at the 2014 EuroSTAR Conference - Soap Box… Read More +
This short talk features Manfred Baumgartner taking a look at what the different genders can bring to software testing and he discusses his ideal tester. This video was recorded at… Read More +
More organizations have considered using crowdsourcing to handle their quality assurance needs, but the approach presents a number of concerns. IT professionals are consistently tasked with carrying out a litany… Read More +
With over two million public testers, Windows 10 is poised to be a bigger deal for software development and QA professionals than any previous OS release. What makes this release… Read More +
Let me explain. Did it ever happen to you that you read something or was told something, you believed you understood 100% of whatever the concept was about and then… Read More +
Since 2011, I have spent 1500 hours of actively teaching software testing to higher vocational students in Sweden. It is educations spanning 1 to 2 years aimed at providing professionals… Read More +
If QA teams don't make the most of their reporting efforts, they will squander a golden opportunity to enhance the quality of their software development practices. The reporting phase of the… Read More +
In this paper we explore the fundamental concepts of test case design and provide a detailed analysis of each method in terms of them. A series of articles (available as… Read More +
NASA launched the $328 million Mars Climate Orbiter into space back in 1998, with the mission to study the climate of the planet. Just nine months after the craft was… Read More +
Software Managers requiring access to infrastructure to test out and validate their new products in the cloud, mobile, wireless, and wired network space will be interested to hear about the… Read More +
Two years ago my colleague wrote an article about desirable character traits of the Worldwide Software Tester. Mainly he noticed such values as: flexibility, open-mind, curiosity, politeness. I encourage you to… Read More +
Get a first glance at the EuroSTAR Software Testing Report 2014 Later this month, EuroSTAR will publish the first EuroSTAR Software Testing Report - the results and findings of… Read More +
In this Google Hangout Laurent Bossavit will share ideas from "Defence Against the Dark Arts", the workshop he did with Michael Bolton at CAST 2014. This workshop focused on… Read More +
Early in your career, you – as a novice tester - probably concerns considerably about what you should do to become a great tester. As a newbie, you certainly want… Read More +
We live in a world which continues to change every day: lots of things are done differently today, compared with yesterday. We started with punched tapes back in 60’s, we… Read More +
Most test professionals have worked at some time or other in difficult organisations, dysfunctional cultures, and for unreasonable managers and stakeholders. This causes much internal stress and creates fear instead… Read More +
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