Thursday, January 7, 2010
Last year the University of Washington Extension Program started running a new Software Test Automation using C# program that I designed and developed for experienced testers with little or no programming background. The program is very popular and has more than 60 people waiting for the next offering. Unfortunately, the pay is not that great [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Did you ever notice that when you ask someone to test something the first thing they do is to start ‘testing?’
I often see this in my classes and I ask the person, “what is the purpose of your test?” Typically the response is, “I’m testing this,” or “I’m trying to find a bug.”
Unfortunately this seems [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Some of you know that I am an organic gardener. I do this not only because I like the fresh taste of vegetables and fruits that are not tainted with chemicals, but my daughter loves to eat things right off the vine or stem as we are harvesting our bounty and I am perhaps overly [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, October 01, 2009
Software is knowledge. Software is the intangible product crafted by a team of people who have pooled their intellectual knowledge to help solve a complex problem and add value to those who use that software. So how does a tester contribute to the intellectual knowledge pool?
I guess we [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, September 24, 2009
The past 2 weeks have been a bit rough. While in Israel I began to feel a bit congested. By the time I hit Nürmberg, Germany for 12th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology I was injecting nose-juice (nasal decongestant) about every 2-3 hours and couldn’t [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Saturday, September 12, 2009
I have spent the last week in Israel teaching our new SDET course in Herzillya and our Senior SDET course in Haifa. I also did a lot of listening and discussing various issues relating to software testing and the maturation of our discipline; not just here in Israel, but [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, September 10, 2009
I am really happy to announce that our book has been released in China and available on the Chinese Amazon site! This was really a monumental effort driven by my friend and colleague Kelly Zhang.
We look forward to the feedback from the Chinese testing community, and we hope [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I remember as a young lad working construction for my uncle one summer. The hours were long, it was hot, and I would much rather have been somewhere else. But, I was saving up for my first motorcycle, so I did whatever jobs I could find. Perhaps it was because [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Wednesday, July 22, 2009
This week, I will keep this post quite short and redirect you to my answers to an interview by the great folks at What Is Testing. The questions covered various topics from the book How We Test Software At Microsoft, to my current role at Microsoft, to my perspectives on [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Friday, April 17, 2009
This week I came across a discussion [regarding test design] in which a tester wrote, "…the main goal is having something that is ‘good enough’." Every time I hear a tester utter the phrase "good enough" my head wants to explode!
Wrapping duct tape around a splint on the broken [...]
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