Random musings – Page 2

Quality is alive

I’ve talked to a lot of unhappy testers – smart, talented testers who always feel like they are working at odds with […]

“Quality is dead,” declared Goranka Bjedov. And I thought to myself, I knew it. For some time now I’ve been concerned about […]

(A conversation snippet from the hogfish.net archives, circa 2007) Trish says: aw man Trish says: /me tries to remember what the file […]

I’ve heard that people can identify with either visual, auditory or tactile methods of learning, or some combination of the three. This […]

2010 was a pretty big year for me as a tester. Actually, I’m not going to be shy about this – it […]

Someone asked me a question the other day that stumped me. They asked “What do you enjoy most about testing?” It struck […]

Why do testers say that they like to “break” software? First of all, good testers should know that they don’t “break” software […]

First you have the inspiration phase – you’ve got this great idea, so many thoughts on the topic and you can’t wait […]

I often hear about “rockstar developers”, but I never hear about rockstar testers. Which makes me think we could do with a […]

Lately I’ve been using a little ruby script (made by fellow Campaign Monitor tester James Martin) to generate random strings of words […]