Tending to Your Tester Garden: Growing a Great Test Team
Creating a great test team is a lot like gardening, you need to find the right seeds and make sure to plant them in an [...]
We Are Not The Quality Police
I started my testing career as part of a user group that did analysis, technical writing, training and testing in the Systems Department of an [...]
Software Developers and Testers: Friends or Foes?
I have often observed situations where developers and testers working on the same project seem to be in a constant struggle with each other. But [...]
Into The Unknown: Entering The World Of Software Testing
I recently joined PLATO as a quality detective and, being a novice tester who has just entered the field of testing, I would like to [...]
The Science of Testing
The best way to approach a problem is typically to look at it from different angles, to turn it over and to discuss it until [...]
How many testers does it take to install a doorbell? Isolating a defect in real-life
As testers, we tend to be analytical thinkers by nature. This is a valuable quality in our work, but how often do we take note [...]
When To Get Serious About Testing
Some years back, I taught a course on software configuration management. In that course, we discussed the benefits and drawbacks to integrating change control within [...]
Release Criteria – What is your ‘Quality Bar’?
In a previous article, I discussed managing risk with quality gates (“None Shall Pass…unless? Managing Risk with Quality Gates” http://thinktesting.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/). Such gates and their expectations facilitate [...]
Model-Based Testing – Learning Experience
As a software tester, I find that using models is very helpful. Models allow us to understand a business process or how a system should [...]