I suspect one reason why many testers do not learn to read or write code is because they find the initial hurdle of learning a modern programming language insurmountable. But, there is a growing demand for testers with coding skills. As software grows...

I was stuck at home this weekend with house painters pondering how best to spend the day sitting at home, so I decided to actually play around with the Ruby scripting language a bit. I will admit my bias in my previous post about the Ruby scripting language...

Last year an ‘ expert’ tester and consultant claimed test techniques were gimmicks. I don't claim to be an expert tester, but I do consider myself to be a professional tester constantly striving to improve my skills and broaden my knowledge to make me...

My respected colleague Keith Stobie recently posted to his blog my response an internal query regarding “unrealistically high” goals for the percentage of tests that are automated. (Since, I have been remiss in my public rants I will reuse Keith’s post...