I. M. Testy

One of the most important artifacts we produce as testers are measures of the software product or processes. Many people scoff at metrics, but there is little doubt management team wants to see numbers. But, the true value of an effective measurement...

The ‘quality’ of defect reports is something testers and managers talk about quite frequently. But quality is usually vaguely defined and is always interpreted differently depending on the context or perceptions of the individuals discussing quality....

Every once in awhile I meet testers who say their manager rates individual performance based on bug metrics. It is no secret that management is constantly looking at bug metrics. But, bug numbers are generally a poor indication of any direct meaningful...

In the past few years there has been a push to use Ruby as a programming language for test automation. Ruby as a programming language has some benefits compared to other scripting languages. However, for test automation or any other serious application...

Last year James Bach wrote that he “…"invented" testing…mainly by discovering that the problems of testing have already been solved in the fields of cognitive psychology, epistemology, and general systems thinking.” Well, there are simply 2 things wrong...