Hello World
"Hello World"A short, happy message, usually echoed from my first program in a new language, or my first test of a new system, heralding the start of a learning process. Seems appropriate for my first...
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Now that I've started the blog, I'm going to reach back into the events of recent history for a few posts. One of those events was CAST 2010, the Conference of the Association for Software...
View ArticleThe Black Swan
One of my favorite things about working with testers is that they read a wide variety of interesting books - this is one of them. “The Black Swan,” by Nassim Taleb, is one of those books that has...
View ArticleAcceptance Test Driven Development: A Testimonial
The following is a testimonial I submitted to Ken Pugh recently - Ken is working on a book about Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Though it is far from a cure-all, in my current context, I...
View ArticleWOPR15
I recently attended WOPR15 (WOPR = Workshop on Performance and Reliability, http://performance-workshop.org). The theme of this workshop was “Building Performance Test Scenarios with a Context-Driven...
View ArticleGrey Swan Defocusing
My continued musings on The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb, but this time with my software tester hat on...All software bugs are not created equal. A small, hopefully very small, number of them have...
View ArticleCAST 2011
Some notes from CAST2011...3 things that made me smile...1. Jon Bach’s bug reports – Jonathan Bach, the conference chair, kicked off both days with a brief address to the attendees that included a bug...
View Article2 Rules for Investigating Production Defects
Production defect investigations can be golden opportunities for testers. Yet I have observed a tendency for these investigations to be less than productive, swinging quickly from blaming the test team...
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