In which the conversation about heuristics and oracles continues… “So what’s the difference,” I asked my tester friend Tony, “between an oracle and a heuristic?” “Hmm. Well, I’ve read the Rapid Testing stuff, and you and James keep saying an oracle is a principle or mechanism by which we recognize a problem.” “Yes,” I said. [...]
On my first real testing job I hadn’t a clue what I was doing, and no one around me had any testing experience either. This was when the web was in its infancy (I was still browsing with Lynx and a 2400 baud … Continue reading →
TweetI remember the day I earned the self acclaimed title of Queen of Defocus. I had been testing for about 3 years and had been hired as the *only* tester in an R&D lab of about thirty…
A while back, I was talking to Matt Heusser about my sticker shock when it came to conference attendance and …
I wrote this a few years back around the time my son became actively involved in the Order of the Arrow, a service organization that I ma also part of, with ties to Native American traditions as well as to Scouting ideals. Since I’ve been recalling som…
While I was at STAR East in Orlando last week, I had a chance to spend a fair amount of time with fellow testers outside of track sessions or after conference hours. In fact, I don’t think I got to bed before 2:00 a.m. Eastern once the entire…
I’m working on a system right now that interfaces with a third party system. That third party system is an aggregator, which means it interfaces with a number of other third party systems. You can think of it as a giant game of telephone.
Unfortunat…
By: Scott Allman I want your help gathering stories for my CAST 2012 presentation. Let me tell you about how you can help. My presentation aims to teach a skill to software testers. One of the benefits of the skill is to help testers understand and work through ethical issues. The presentation begins, “The story [...]
In the previous post, I introduced the commoditization of testing. This trend devalues the skill of the tester, and has far-reaching consequences for software development as a whole. How might this play out? What might the future hold for testers? … Continue reading →
For the first time in a long time, I am prepared to endorse a new trainer of the Rapid Software Testing class: Paul Holland. Paul has been a tester and test manager at Alcatel/Lucent for something like 17 years. In recent years he has been using and teaching Rapid Software Testing methodology within Alcatel. His [...]
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