I’ve always felt that the test automation literature is a little … odd.On the one hand, you have the floofly high-level tutorial, written so that it applies to every test tool. By trying to apply to every tool, the tutorial isn’t specific enough to …
My presentation entitled “Cutting the Mustard: Striving to Become a Superstar Tester” has been accepted at the CAST 2010 Conference in August of this year. I’ve already written the paper and put together the presentation for this conference; however, the work involved in putting this together got me thinking. I am wondering what other testers […]
A little over ten years ago I interviewed for a developer job with Steve Hoek, at a tiny division of McGraw-Hill. Steve asked me if I saw myself collecting an award in five years – what would it be?I replied that I’d like it to be some sort of industr…
Regular readers know that I’m dissatisfied with the state of the testing industry. It’s a shambles, and will continue to be as long as middle managers in big companies continue to be fat juicy targets for scam-artists (large tool vendors, consulting firms, and certain “professional” organizations) and well-meaning cargo cultists (such as those who think […]
I regularly work with hardware that interacts with the software (not off the shelf PC hardware, custom hardware device). Over the years the hardware I work with has gotten more complex, which also means the firmware has gotten bigger and more complex. What’s interesting is that some people view firmware and software as unrelated and […]
Last year was my first CAST. I had heard countless good things from the community testers I interact with, this in combination to the cost savings were the main drivers for my attendance (employers like the fact that its 1/2 the cost of a larger conference). Once I got there I discovered why it was […]
Part of the process of dusting off Creative Chaos and reusing it again is moving my RSS Feed. The new RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/CreativeChaos. In order to index the RSS feed, I need to tell Technorati, a blog index-er, that I own the bl…
… So we’re driving out to my daughter’s softball game in Hopkins, Michigan, and I choose to go straight instead of turning left at the shortcut. We’ve got plenty of time, and if I go straight I can turn past Sacred Heart Mission, which is a nicer dr…
One of the main problems around testing is that the terms and understanding of terms differs a lot from person to person. Although standard lists of term definition has been around for a decade or so, along with certification schemes, with a huge weigh…
One of the main problems around testing is that the terms and understanding of terms differs a lot from person to person. Although standard lists of term definition has been around for a decade or so, along with certification schemes, with a huge weigh…
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