thoughts from the test eye

Jerry Weinberg has, in his book ”Perfect Software and other illusions about testing”, expressed a very important observation, namely who is responsible for pinpointing the bug. The tester finds the bug, tries to reproduce it, then adds as much information that he/she has such as log files, configurations, test data and so on. When you estimate time for testing [...]

I use Jerry Weinberg’s definition of quality: “Quality is value to some person”; and I use Cem Kaner’s extension to the definition so that it becomes “Quality is value to some person (that matters)”…
I.e. quality is inherently subjective. And there are a lot of persons that are affected by software that we produce… With this in mind [...]