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All tours much eventually come to an end and thus it is with my tour with Microsoft. I have resigned...
Date: 05/21/2009
Every location that covets tourists must have some good reasons for them to come. For Las Vegas it’s...
Date: 04/06/2009
Bet that got your attention. It's true, but let me qualify it: Running test cases over and over in...
Date: 04/02/2009
I am doing another webinar on March 31 which will be hosted by uTest. This is the second webinar I...
Date: 03/25/2009
As promised, here is the first tour on the tour-of-the-month parade. It's probably not the best...
Date: 03/11/2009
I’ve gotten enough requests for links to my interviews, lectures and pointless videos that I am...
Date: 02/25/2009
(I couldn’t resist the play on Alan Turing’s famous test when naming this testing metaphor.) When I...
Date: 02/12/2009
There was a full page ad for Jif peanut butter in my morning paper that caught my attention. (For...
Date: 02/06/2009
When you’re on vacation do you think about work? Not thoughts of dread, worry or angst but...
Date: 02/01/2009
We mostly write test cases that are specifically tied to a single application. This shouldn’t come...
Date: 01/22/2009
I’ve given my ‘future of testing’ talk four times (!) this week and by far the part that generates...
Date: 01/16/2009
I just got finished talking (actually the conversation was more like a debate) to a colleague,...
Date: 01/08/2009
As you can imagine there is a pretty lively debate going on over the Zune date math issue here in...
Date: 01/06/2009
Welcome to the new year! 2009 will be the year I publish a new book on testing and the year I ship...
Date: 01/05/2009
Every since I gave a talk at Google’s GTAC event here in Seattle this past October, I’ve had the...
Date: 12/09/2008
As a result of my last post, I got this email from a Microsoft tester whom I work with fairly...
Date: 11/21/2008
I did a webinar for UTest.com today and got some great questions. One question seemed to really...
Date: 11/20/2008
Position requires comparing an insanely complicated, poorly documented product to a nonexistent or...
Date: 11/18/2008
I gave a keynote at EuroSTAR on the future of software testing where I began by painting a picture...
Date: 11/14/2008
In my Future series I was accused of supporting both sides of the manual v. automated debate and...
Date: 10/29/2008
Actually, it is more like speaking at Google as I am headed to GTAC tomorrow to give the newest...
Date: 10/22/2008
Testing Beyond Release This is the final part of my series on the future of testing. I hope you’ve...
Date: 10/13/2008
Testers as Designers Modern testers play largely a role of late cycle heroics that often goes...
Date: 10/07/2008
If you only attend one conference on testing, I recommend STAR (East or West). It remains the...
Date: 09/26/2008
Testing Culture A couple of months ago I attended a lecture given by one of the Empire’s cache of...
Date: 09/24/2008
Visualization What does software look like? Wouldn’t it be helpful if we had a visualization of...
Date: 09/19/2008
How do you feel about tester certification? I’ve heard all the arguments for and against and looked...
Date: 09/11/2008
Moving Testing Forward There is a gap that exists in testing that is eating away at quality,...
Date: 09/09/2008
There's an angle to this debate that I missed during the prevention v. cure series I did last month....
Date: 09/05/2008
So we are now at my third prediction which deals with information and how testers will use...
Date: 09/05/2008
In order for testsourcing to take hold of the future of testing, two key technological barriers must...
Date: 08/26/2008
This is the first post of a multipart series on my predictions about the future of software testing...
Date: 08/20/2008
Ok, we're getting to the end of this thread and probably the part that most of you have asked about:...
Date: 08/18/2008
What a question! I only wish I could convey the way that question is normally asked. The tone of...
Date: 08/11/2008
Manual testing is human-present testing. A human tester using their brain, their fingers and their...
Date: 08/08/2008
Since starting this blog a couple weeks ago, I’ve received more comments via email than have been...
Date: 08/03/2008
Now that the testers are once again gainfully employed, what shall we do with them? Do we point them...
Date: 07/29/2008
God Save the Queen! (A curious statement … from my American point of view. But given what history...
Date: 07/28/2008
I had the extreme privilege to speak to a crowd of test practitioners based in the UK last week. The...
Date: 07/25/2008
Ok, re-hire the testers. Perhaps you’ve noticed but the whole prevention thing isn’t working so...
Date: 07/25/2008
Developer testing, which I call prevention because the more bugs devs find the fewer I have to deal...
Date: 07/24/2008
Does anyone out there know who was the origin of the insight that the software industry and the...
Date: 07/24/2008
Yeah, I know … scary subject. But as it is review time here at the empire, this is a subject that...
Date: 07/22/2008
Anyone who has read chapter 6 of How to Break Software knows my fondness of mixing testing with...
Date: 07/21/2008
Ok here it is. I submit. I’ve been bugged about blogging for years. “Where’s JW’s blog?” “Why...
Date: 07/08/2008