Five for Friday – July 19, 2019

I spoke recently on the topic of “Customer Focused Test Design” (synopsis: customers don’t really care how much functional testing testers do, or how many bugs they find. A test approach that favors scenarios, -ilities, and customer feedback is better; and a bunch of examples for emphasis/proof). Part of the approach I suggest (and have…

I’ve been on vacation (whatever that means) for almost a week now, and don’t plan to post again until 2012. To help fill in the break (and for anyone new to my blog), I thought I’d share some stats and popular posts from the last twelve months. I wrote 60 blog entries in 2011. Some…

I do a lot of mentoring and coaching within Microsoft. I like to help people, it’s fun, and it’s nice that I have a manager that sees the value in that. Sometimes, the coaching I do is on improving testing ability, increasing testing breadth or brainstorming testing ideas. Most often, however, I help people think…

I came across a few comments and statements recently that set off a slightly red (orange?) flag for me. The gist was that debugging was for coders, and that testers “just found the issues”. I get the context (or at least I think I get it) – I agree that all testers don’t have to…

It’s interesting when I go back and look at the number of posts where I talk about what I do, what testing is to me, and how testing is changing. Ever since the Telerik Test Summit (telsum), I’ve been thinking even more about testing and how it fits into software development. When I wrote this…

I had a burst of traffic on my blog last week when 10’s of eager internet users stumbled across my little rant fest. I try to avoid traffic for traffic’s sake (past experiences tell me that I could merely comment half-heartedly on any of the sacred subjects of the testing world and generate a significant…