by astadmin | Syndicated
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 …
by astadmin | Syndicated
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 […]
by astadmin | Syndicated
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…
by astadmin | Syndicated
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 […]
by astadmin | Syndicated
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 […]
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