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Recently I had a discussion with one of my colleague on ‘Boundary analysis is a technique and Function testing is a type’. I knew that there is no point of forcing my view point onto her because she was very strong in her opinion. I told myself tha…

If it’s a disease, I’ve got it.  I blame Scott Barber.  ;0) You see I’m writing a book, and through the process Scott pointed me to: Weinberg on Writing – Gerald M. Weinberg So I land on one of my fave online … Continu…

Oftentimes, when we get into doing a lot of things, we find ourselves either dropping items we want to work on, or we seem to forget that there are things we still need to do or that we have committed to do. We also tend to get into a mode when we some…

Sometimes,
things happen that seem quite straight forward, quite obvious and quite easy to
repeat

And
sometimes they are only quite straight forward, quite obvious, and quite easy to
repeat to you.

I had a
fault with my ASUS EEEPAD Transformer.

I reported
it.

NB. I don’t have the original report but I asked them to send me a copy and this is apparently what I wrote "memory card slot

I’m on the ‘Testing Today’ panel at the Next Generation Testing Conference on Wednesday 23rd May.  We’ll be discussing the main challenges to testing today.

What would you ask?

Panel 1: Testing Today – What are the main challenges?
Moderator: Dr Ri…

Process – noun -    1. a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve        a particular end    (Oxford English Dictionary)So, a fair number of people have heard me discuss excitedly …

Previously… Devil in the Detail: Prologue Devil in the Detail I Continuing with the theme of review and approval as arguments for detailed test scripts… Argument 2: “We need scripts so that they can be approved prior to execution”. Like … Continue reading →

As I’m writing this, it is the evening of Mother’s Day in the US.  Because the weather was lovely, much time was spent in the garden this weekend mowing the lawn, trimming bushes, preparing the vegetable garden for the summer. I then took my lady-…

One of the reasons that software testing is challenging, both intellectually and practically, is that the information about the state of the system under test is partial. It’s part of the testing role to formulate a model (or, more usually, a cloud of …