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Update on testing.stackexchange.com
On October 6th, I informally launched testing.stackexchange.com as “the stackoverflow.com for Software Testing” without much hoopla. So far, less than a month later, with no advertising other than word...
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What Software Testers Can Learn from the Game of 20 Questions
Dave Whalen posted a good piece here asserting that software testing, done well, requires a blend of “Science” and “Art”. I recommend it. (He also has a good post about testing databases here). He...
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Great Bug Tracking Tool – Tails
I’ve recently tried out Tails as a bug tracking tool. I like it and I’d recommend you check it out if you’re looking for a straightforward bug-tracking tool without a lot of extra bells and whistles....
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Defect Seen >10 Million Times and Still not Corrected…
I responded to a recent blog post written by Gareth Bowles today and was struck – again – that a defect that must have been seen >10 million times by now has still not been corrected. When anyone...
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25 Great Quotes for Software Testers
All the quotes below are from the inside cover of Statistics for Experimenters written by George Box, Stuart Hunter, and William G. Hunter (my late father). The Design of Experiments methods...
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Why isn’t Software Testing Performed as Efficiently and Effecively as it...
Luis Fernández, an Associate professor at Universidad de Alcala is conducting a survey of software testers to gather data relating to, e.g., “Why isn’t software testing conducted as efficiently and...
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13 Great Questions To Ask Software Testing Tool Vendors
There are good reasons James Bach is so well known among the testing community and constantly invited to give keynote presentations around the globe at software testing conferences. He’s passionate...
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Too Many Tests and No Computer to Run Them; Wil Shipley’s Mac Cops an Attitude
A friend passed me this set of recent tweets from Wil Shipley, a Mac developer with 11,743 followers on Twitter as of today. Wil recently encountered the familiar problem of what to do when you’ve got...
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Advice for software testers: read the ETDD (and re-read it every few months)
I can be too verbose with some of my posts. This will be quick. I recommend that you read this. It is the Exploratory Testing Dynamics document, a tightly condensed list of useful testing heuristics...
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New Hexawise Blog
This blog is not updated. Please see our current Hexawise blog on software testing to keep up with our new posts.Filed under: Combinatorial Software Testing, Pairwise Testing, Software Testing
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