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December 2007 - Posts

Friday, December 28, 2007 3:55 AM

How Professional Testers Think: Why Microsoft primarily hires testers with a Computer Science, Math or Engineering background?

The easiest thing to criticize is that which one does not fully comprehend. There has been a lot of discussion lately about Jerome Groopman's book How Doctor's Think and a correlation between doctors in the medical profession and software testers. The
Posted by I.M.Testy | 2 Comments
Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:15 PM

Blindly buying into rumor and innuendo: or how to lose stock in your credibility

It never ceases to amaze me that every time we see a calamity involving software the immediate reaction of the sensationalist media types and other people who are generally misinformed is to blame inadequate testing. Recently, it seems that Joel Spolsky
Posted by I.M.Testy | 2 Comments
Sunday, December 16, 2007 9:37 AM

Putting the Context back in Context-driven testing

Tonight I was having dinner at the superb Italian restaurant L'Olivo along the canal in Nyhaven, Denmark with my 5 year old daughter. She was slightly upset because they didn't have chocolate mousse on the dessert menu so when the waiter came by to take
Posted by I.M.Testy | 1 Comments
Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:17 AM

Exploratory testing vs. Scripted testing; Is it really only either or?

I just left Stockholm after spending a week there. That was my second visit to Stockholm and it is truly a remarkable city. I spoke at EuroStar which is the largest software testing conference in Europe, and had the opportunity to meet some old friends
Posted by I.M.Testy | 3 Comments
 
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