Five for Friday – October 15, 2021

My team at Microsoft is starting to use code coverage a little more diligently. Code coverage has been used for some time on the team, but we’re just now getting to a common approach and recording mechanism. There are a few things about our approach that are a bit different than I’ve seen most other…

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I’ve used the approach long before I knew what it was called and think it’s the core of good testing. it’s so ingrained in the general approaches I’ve used in my career that I often don’t differentiate between exploratory testing and plain-old-testing (I’ve gone as far to say…

Wow – it’s October already. Here are some things I found interesting on the internet this week. Thanks for reading – see you next week!

After my last post, I thought I was done commenting on stack ranking (for at least another year), but two things inspired me to write just a bit more. First, a few people flat-out asked about my opinions for alternatives; and secondly, a consultant added some ignorance to the discussion that gave me just enough…

Probably not news to most of you, but the local company that sells everything under the sun just bought a robotics company (Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems). Normally, I don’t blog about news stories, but on the way to work this morning I heard an interesting discussion on a local talk radio station. It turns out…

In software testing, we use a lot of words – some well known, others less so – to describe our testing activities. For as long as I’ve been in software (which is longer than most of you), we’ve debated and argued which descriptions, and which combinations of words best describe the various activities that fall…