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March 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:29 AM

The Tao of Testing

Ancient Chinese history is fascinating, and there is incredible insight and wisdom in ancient texts which is just as relevant today as it was more than 2000 years ago. One such book is the Tao Te Ching attributed to Lao Tsu (Laozi) (although factual historical
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:03 AM

5 Questions with Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter is a well know tester both inside and outside of Microsoft. Michael writes a testing column for Dr. Dobbs Journal Portal which is really cool because it shines a light on the world of testing in a traditonally developer focused portal and
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 2:32 AM

Sex, Death and Fly-fishing and other books for software testers

It is a gray rainy day in Seattle and still rather cold outside; one of those lazy sort of days when one lacks ambition to do just about anything. A good day for lounging at home. I have never been much on vegetating in front of the idiot box so I decided
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:18 PM

More on testing Mp3 files and the boundary testing debate

Over the past 3 days I have learned more about Mp3 file encoding and decoding than I have since the technology was introduced. I don't spend time downloading files from the Internet to burn CD's, I don't own an iPod or Mp3 player, or a digital video recorder.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:17 PM

More on boundary testing and Mp3 encodings

My previous post refuting a conjecture by Pradeep Soundarajan suggesting there are no boundary values in software was a bit harshly worded, and to him and the readers I apologize. Occasionally I get a little overzealous. I am sure Pradeep is a great guy,
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 6:19 PM

A little bit about me...

Well, I guess I hit a nerve that caused James Bach to put me square in his crosshairs. James' dislike for me is clearly seen in a reply on his blog , and unfortunately personal bias often distorts the facts. This is a shame because I think to some extent
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:03 PM

The difference between professional testing and arbitrary guessing or wild speculation

My friend and teammate Alan knows how passionate I get about certain things on occasion, so he threw me a bone the other day regarding a blog post on boundary testing, or should I say a rather a poor attempt to discredit boundary testing and boundary
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