thoughts from the test eye

How to test that AI models are aligned must be one of the hardest and most important testing problems ever. Therefore I recommend it as a testing exercise, come up with ideas that might be useful to find important problems regarding AI alignment to humanity.All answers are good except creating regulation, since it is already […]

In security testing, passive scanning is quite a big thing. You browse or spider a web site, and the network traffic is scanned to find potential vulnerabilities.But this is not so common for general software testing, which is quite strange.Why don’t we have tools that test in the background while we are doing testing?Maybe there […]

I hope you are all familiar with Cem Kaner’s RIMGEN for bug reporting. Your bug reports will be better if you Replicate, Isolate, Maximize, Generalize, Externalize and write with a Neutral tone.The acronym doesn’t include everything about bug reporting, so I want to tell you about a little mistake I make now and then. I […]

A few of you know that I have been working on a very powerful tool for software testing. Bad news first: It is only for Windows and web services, it is self-signed, and it requires LLM credits for full effect.Good news: It is free, it empowers testers to test faster and better, and it contains […]

We will be flooded with AI agents that can do software testing. I have seen examples of test reports that look impressive, but it is hard to tell if the testing was really good.So I created a very simple web application to make “quick” (not bullet proof) testing of their capabilities. The tool is built […]

Last week I gave a talk at Øredev conference about building my own custom test tools with the help of LLM programming.I have been doing this for a year now, and it really extends my capabilities as a tester. I can’t say it makes me faster, but I can do better testing, and it is […]

There has not been a lot written from us on the blog lately; a lot of other things to do, and blogging isn’t the hottest thing nowadays, to say the least. Perhaps we also already have written what we feel is most important, and thereby not addressing what is important to other testers. We therefore […]

On November 2nd 1998 I did my first working day as a tester, 25 years ago.The first thing I tested was the Swedish version of Internet Explorer 4 Service Pack 2.We had detailed step-by-step instructions to follow, so it seemed straightforward.Long-time tester Anders Olsson helped me with my first tests, and on the second test […]

There are lots of people that share material they have created, and make them publically available for anyone.Everything is of course not good, but a lot is, and this helps our community to grow, people can build upon each others work, and our combined knowledge increases.I think most testers do this because they have something […]

At EuroSTAR 2019 I was co-speaking with Henrik Emilsson on a half-day tutorial on using quality characteristics.My favorite parts of these intense events are the questions when you don’t know what will happen.In one of these I ended my answer with “if testing is easy, you’re doing something wrong”.I remember how happy I was with […]