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Vinayak writes: "I do feel Exploratory Testing has importance in SCRUM-like projects and also scripted testing has its role in specific contexts. I would really like to see your views on how do you think test design, test documentation, and test execution
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I find that this Problem Solving Heuristic works when nothing else does. Situate yourself such that you can easily move about in a circle. Stand, sit on a chair with wheels, grab your kidling's spin toy, whatever. Now rotate yourself clockwise. If moving
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Have you ever reacted to something you noticed by saying "Bizarre!" or "Weird!" or "How strange"? Example: "Hey, Michael's post is tiny this week. Weird!" Have you ever investigated to learn why what you noticed occurred? Or did you make an assumption
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Recently I heard a tester venting about their developer. It seems this developer routinely complains that the tester keeps him from doing his job: "You never let me add features! You always say no! If it wasn't for you I would be up on stage demonstrating
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New Year's Day is traditionally the time when people sit down and examine their life and vow to make copious far-reaching changes...and then last night's egg nog wears off and life goes on as normal. <g/> If, however, you would like to see changes
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Recently I overheard a developer describing how his wife constantly interrupts him when he is thinking (i.e., seemingly doing nothing) rather than waiting until he was at a place where he could process what she had to say. It seems he has taken to kicking
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Recently I read Eugene Kennedy's On Becoming A Counselor , and currently I am immersed in Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think . Both authors make a point which I have been concurrently learning via other avenues as well: my emotional state Big Time affects
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It seems to me that lots of people are experiencing lots of confusion regarding what lots of the testing terms we throw around signify. In an effort to remedy this circumstance I have applied my investigatory powers to observe what people really mean
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Recently my wife and I were discussing the book I was reading. She had already read it and asked me what was happening so she could know how far along I was and thus what she could say without spoiling the plot for me. I gave her a short synopsis of recent
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I have been thinking about what an ideal software development process might look like: The product team would understand exactly what their customers want to do and how their product could help their customers do so. Developers would understand exactly
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Some years back a store near me started having a going-out-of-business sale. Six months later it was *still* having a going-out-of-business sale. A nearby newsstand which was also closing for good mocked it with signs that read "Come here for a real going-out-of-business
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Sonal asks: Could you discuss on estimating testing for a manual/automation project? How long to estimate the estimation, how many test cases designed per day (though this sounds like a bad statistic). Test case designing and testing per se never ends
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Recently I heard of a company who is downsizing their test department because their developers are going to start unit testing. There are a bunch of reasons why this could be exactly the wrong thing to do. There are also a bunch of reasons why it could
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My previous post stirred up a bit of controversy and spurred a bit of discussion. Fun stuff! The test plan for my new team states: All functional, integration, performance, and stress tests are automated and none run manually in test passes. This will
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How much of your testing do you automate? How do you know whether you have automated enough - or too much? My current team is taking the Automate Everything approach. This means we automate every last test case. "110% automation", as one of our executives
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