I grew up in a small “town” in Värmland. Outside the village, most people live in isolated houses/farms on the countryside or in the woods.
If you’d ask one of these persons what quality is, they would answer:
dä ä väl att fôlk töcker att dä ä bra
(guess it’s that people like it)
This is actually quite a [...]
When looking for personel in general it is common that we want passionate people who love their work. Most passionate testers that I read about are usually part of the context-driven movement. Can there be testers out there that are really passionate about how they work in the heavy scripted test environment, where someone else [...]
Analogies are helpful, not because they come with truths, but because they can help you highlight and think in different ways about the phenomena you are comparing with.
I think you can pick any subject you know a lot about, and after some thinking, interesting things will emerge.
The important moments
If two chess players are at about [...]
I have been thinking about qualitative research lately, and wondered what the question(s) would look like if testing was seen as a research project.
The testing effort has many positive effects, but one common and important is to provide information about the product, so a good release decision can be made. We cannot prove that the [...]
Cem Kaner has updated his set of publications. I’ve been reading his well written articles over the last ten years.
Have a nice time digging in!
In many discussions about testing methods, courses, techniques, approaches etc it is usually software testing that is in focus. I cannot see why the limit is set to just software. For instance, the excellent course Rapid Software Testing advocates, by its name, that is meant for personel who perform testing of software. It could perhaps be [...]
For quite some time I have felt that the classic test design techniques don’t add up to the needs of software testing that tries to find most of the important information.
At EuroSTAR 2009 it dawned on me that it is time to describe the method that I, and many, many others, have been using for [...]
When preparing for EuroSTAR 2009 presentation I drew a picture to try to explain that you need to test a lot more than the requirements, but we don’t have to (and can’t) test everything and the qualitative dilemma is to look for and find the important bugs in the product.
Per K. instantly commented that it [...]
It was Stockholm again this year. Good to not have to travel far, but since you are travelling I wouldn’t object to something more exotic, and warmer. Next year it is Copenhagen, again.
I had a full-packed program with 4 days of tutorials, workshops, tracks, short talks, test-labbing, conversations, so in total it is quite an [...]
Statements in specifications try to clarify and are inevitably an interpretation of what the author thinks need to be more specific. I.e., they try to be a more specific model than what existed before the spec. And “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful” (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box).
Every specification you encounter is persons’ interpretations, and not [...]