Motoko Kusanagi from “Ghost in the Shell”One of the things I have enjoyed with my children is sharing my love of Anime with them. Anime, for those not familiar, is the animation style that developed in Japan and has had a varied level of interest in th…
The second GATE workshop will take place on September 8th 2012 in Munich, Germany. GATE is a workshop that falls into the series of peer workshops on testing like LAWST, LEWT, DEWT, and SWET. As the content owner of this … Continue reading →
In which the conversation about heuristics and oracles continues… Tony’s brow furrowed as he spoke. “No oracle comes with a guarantee that it’s giving you the right answer. That’s what you said. But surely there are some oracles that are reliable,” he said. “What about pure math?” “Pure math? All right. Here’s an example: what’s [...]
I have observed that most of the testers look for ‘testing’ related definitions, they look for fixed answers. I think everyone can’t remember definitions. Especially people like me find it difficult to remember it. I see lot of questions asked by…
A month ago Michael Bolton sent me an article that underscores the problem of “all tests being deterministic” and “we have to cover all the functions in this application.” Something I was thinking about while I read the article was how a checkup or physical at a doctor’s office works and how that compares to [...]
I work with entrepreneurs. They – like many of us – want things fast, want things great, and want things cheap. That darn iron triangle keeps getting in the way, though.
You can change the shape of the triangle, but you can’t grow it. The secret th…
At the Let’s Test conference, the first ever context-driven testing conference in Europe, Michael Bolton delivered the first keynote on Monday morning. He was talking about context-driven testing – what else? Michael emphasized that the title of the talk is … Continue reading →
I wrote up the lyrics for “Rapid Tester” on another fallow blog of mine. So for those who are interested in the actual rhetorical content of the tune, click to see. Sadly I have a couple of other blogs lying around, neglected for years now. Sigh. But I like to think my family and I [...]
This week I gave two talks on Session Based Test Management and Exploratory Testing at QUEST 2012. For one of the talks, I included a link to my current SBTM dashboard as a Google Doc. You can find the presentations here:
Exploratory Testing in the Ent…
This may either turn out to be a corny diversion or the healthiest thing I’ve ever done for myself. I’m not entirely sure which 
.One of the factors that I discovered when I started pouring myself into doing a lot of testing things is that m…
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