Test Guide

Last week I took Rapid Software Testing from Michael Bolton . The three days of stuffing my brain in the beautiful downtown campus of the University of Toronto was loads of fun. Points I especially remember: I had already experienced one of the exercises...

People often ask me why my blog URL is "micahel" rather than "michael". Here's why: Years ago I had a manager who - no matter how hard she tried - always mistyped my name as "Micahel". To tweak her a bit I took "micahel" on as the name I used in Half...

Eric writes: How can I help my devs help me determine what is ready to test so I can help them? I’m a tester on an agile dev team. Every three weeks I get a new build which includes stuff that is supposed to work and stuff that is not supposed to...

This week I am in Toronto taking Rapid Software Testing from Michael Bolton . Every time I talk with Michael he makes my brain hurt, so I am quite enjoying three solid days of him! That is not however what I would like to talk about today. What I would...

Harry writes, Hi Micahel, I'm a regular reader of your blog. I run a blog on requirements and software engineering so we have some common interests. Currently there is a game of Blog-tagging going on, which works like a kind of chain-letter....

Anu asks: [C]ould you post an entry on when to resolve a bug as "Dupe" or "No repro". I've been following the rule of resolve a bug as dupe if and only if the repro steps of the 2 bugs are the same. If they are the same root cause, it totally depends...