Posts Tagged ‘analogy’

Chess & Testing February 2, 2010 6 Comments

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 [...]

The Baker & The Tester January 28, 2009 2 Comments

I’ve recently become addicted to baking bread. I don’t know why, but it has the same kind of magic as music and software testing; so I’ll try to make some analogies.
Results – The best bread results come when there is long fermentation time, just as when a tester can spend a long time with a [...]