Five for Friday – March 18, 2022

For testers, being skeptical is generally a good thing. When someone says, “Our application doesn’t have any reliability errors”, I, for one, am skeptical. I’ll poke and prod and (usually) find something they haven’t thought about. There’s power in skepticism. Last year, I led a team of testers in performing code reviews of production code….

Oh hey – it’s Friday again already. Things are a bit…busy for me, but my random bits of reading still led to a few things I thought were worth sharing. And that’s all. Time to go play in traffic or something else unhealthy. Have fun this weekend.

People talk a lot about how they got into testing (I was told I was a tester on my first day at a tech support job), but for those of us who have been in testing roles for a substantial amount of time, I think it’s equally important to think about why we have stayed in…

Brent and I gabbed about testing again last week – or sort of…We mostly talked about change management, and why people avoid or embrace change. We’ll probably settle back to a once every two weeks posting after this – or some sort of regular, sustainable cadence. Subscribe to the ABTesting Podcast! Subscribe via RSS Subscribe…

It is Friday again. I spent the last week in Montreal where I walked a lot, and ate at far too many restaurants to list (but one free link is the vegan ramen at Umami – absolutely amazing). As usual here are a few (more than four, less than six) interesting things I found this…

The “Test This” game pops up frequently in testing circles. Sometimes it pops up in the “How would you test a …” variety – e.g. How would you test a stapler. Participants in the game are expected to come up with functional tests (can it staple), as well as “out of the box” tests like,…