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 [...]
In order to become a successful inquisitive tester, there are a couple of things you can do to improve your skills beyond the more common quest to “question a product”. One important thing is to question the tests themselves.
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Have you ever run tests and wondered if they were really necessary, perhaps knowing that the tests are useless?
Have [...]
When you come up with a new test idea, you are using your knowledge and experience, but there is also some sort of stimuli that triggers the idea. Something you see, hear, understand or think about.
You seldom think in totally new ways, you rather combine things in a new way.
These are my favorite test idea [...]
At EuroSTAR 2009 I will present “More and Better Test Ideas“; the main idea being that testers could generate many different types of test ideas, and communicate them in a condensed one-liner format.
If you have great tips on how to come up with really good test ideas, or want to review the paper I’m about [...]
Sometimes it is said that each test case must have an expected result, or even worse, that each step of a test case must have an expected result.
This is the extreme of scripted testing that I dislike for two reasons:
* It takes a lot of time to write and follow detailed test cases; time that [...]