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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:56 AM

Contextual blindness: or How to take things completely out of context

Many testers are familiar with the concept of inattentional blindness (or at least should be in my opinion). Basically inattentional blindness occurs when we are so visually focused on a task or object that we completely fail to see something out of the
Posted by I.M.Testy | 19 Comments
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, April 22, 2007 10:13 PM

Tools for testing smarter; not harder!

Today I was reminded about the fictional account of an aircraft carrier and a lighthouse in which the carrier and her escorts were navigating in dense fog and a target appeared on the radar that appeared to be on a collision course with the carrier group.
Posted by I.M.Testy | 1 Comments
 
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