Now that the project has finished it is time to sum up my experiences of adapting Thread-Based Test Management (TBTM). Since I generally do not believe in rigorously adhering to a protocol, I ended up not using TBTM strictly, but instead embraced a h…
Now that the project has finished it is time to sum up my experiences of adapting Thread-Based Test Management (TBTM). Since I generally do not believe in rigorously adhering to a protocol, I ended up not using TBTM strictly, but instead embraced a …
I sat down this morning to write a slide set for a client. The first slide looked something like this:Endpoint Download:- Download from endpoint foo- Route to endpoints bar, bat, baz- Physician registration required for routing- Admin registration requ…
Don’t ask me why this came to mind today, but as we were visiting friends down in Fresno this weekend, we were out walking and talking about things, and I lamented that I hadn’t had time to do certain things anymore the way I used to. I joked that I …
Why do we have radios in our cars? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why do we have TVs in our homes? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why, when you go to the movie theater now, do you have to sit and watch commercials for 5 minutes before [...]
The Context-Driven School of software testing is a way of thinking about testing, AND a small but world-wide community of like-minded testers. There are other, larger, schools of testing thought. But CDT represents my paradigm of testing. By paradigm, I mean an organizing worldview, an ontology, a set of fundamental beliefs. When I say CDT [...]
I’m trying to use a lighter hand on these interviews… as many of you know, I’m a bit OCD when it comes to Um’s and ah’s and other “stutters”, and usually, I work aggressively to edit them out.
While I feel that it makes for a more pol…
When I first heard about Tacit Knowledge, I had a vague idea what it was. The word “tacit” sounded a bit like “tactile” so I guessed it was knowledge that you could touch. I…
Yes, to my astute readers, you will notice that this is being written on a Thursday, but I typically do my book reviews on Wednesday and I so hate to break up a set
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Having said that, some might look at the title of this week’s review and think …
I wrote a feature article for Logigear Magazine February Edition entitled Beware the Lotus Eaters. I really enjoyed writing this article, I hope you get something out of it. Beware the Lotus Eaters…



