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Scripting Exploratory Smack Down
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 3 Comments

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Problem Solving Heuristic #1142: Spin
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

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Problem Solving Heuristic #1128: How Interesting
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

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Check It Out
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

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Developers Develop And Testers Test; What Else Is There To Know?
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

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Klutzes, Savants, And Mediums (Oh My)
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 1 Comments

Rampant Reactions
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 8 Comments

A Tester's Translation Table
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 8 Comments

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If I Understand You Correctly
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 4 Comments

Testing Ideals
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 12 Comments

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Business BASIC(s)
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

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Testing Estimation
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 0 Comments

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Riffing On Testers
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 1 Comments

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It Depends
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 3 Comments

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Automate This!
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:30 AM by micahel | 14 Comments

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