Arianna Huffington, on the Daily Show, suggested that one point of the blog was to work out nascent ideas without being overly concerned about completeness. There are a bunch of things that are…
January 2009
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I would like to apologize for the RSS Spam that everyone has been getting lately. I have moved my Feedburner account to Google. It appears that Google did not test the migration process. I…
The first public beta release of Trinidad is now available. Trinidad is an in-process test runner for FitNesse tests. Here are some nice things you can do with it:
- run fitnesse fit and slim tests…
My StickyMinds column posted on January 26 is Testers from Another Planet.
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We’re just putting some of the finishing touches to the plans, but I am able to confirm that James Whittaker will be visiting TCL on the week of 19th March, 2009.
As part of his trip, James will be…
This phishing email arrived in my account the other day
Dear Valued Client
Due to security reasons we will want you to confirm your access details by clicking on the verfiy my account details link…
Following my own advice, I’ve added a new standard test case to my quiver: checking to make sure that December 31 works on leap years.
Last week, I encountered a date range with a maximum of one…
One of the teams I work with at the moment needs a few more people. The project is a new generation gaming server, the location is west-central london. we’re looking for two mid-level server side…
Start-ups and entrepreneurs have all seen the news… heard the stories… felt the pinch. As the financial markets have shuddered and lurched, VCs have tightened their purse strings.
This climate was…
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No my name is not Mr. %RECIPIENTADDRESS%, and I don’t have a Liberty Reserve account.
Perhaps you were thinking of a Mr. 10 Main Street, or a Mrs. P.O. Box 1026?
Buggy phishing just…
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In Chapter 5 of the terrific book “How We Test Software At Microsoft” by Alan Page, Ken Johnston and Bj Rollison, is one of the best discussions about Equivalence Class Partitioning and…
Make a list of some of the bad teaching staff you faced at your school or college. You might be able to notice a pattern - most of them were the ones who were not willing to learn while they were…
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One of the first books on testing that I ever read was “The Art of Software Testing” by Glenford J. Myers
The first paragraph of the book asks the reader to take a short self-test to…
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One of the first books on testing that I ever read was “The Art of Software Testing” by Glenford J. Myers
The first paragraph of the book asks the reader to take a short self-test to…
Last weekend I hosted the Eight Austin Workshop on Test Automation. We have a better record of this workshop than any previous. Notes from most of the sessions were recorded on our wiki, which also…
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Arrrrr, what sort of members do I need ?
The scurvy dev that wrote this bug should be keel hauled and the tester that missed it will be walking the plank
Back in 2005 I read Now, Discover Your Strengths and took the original StrengthsFinder test. My top 5 strengths were:
Strategic: People strong in the Strategic theme create alternative…
When I start a new software testing project, I always begin by drafting a test plan. I’ve always viewed test plans as useful tools in pointing your test imagination in the right directions for the…