Critic Thinking

It’s not a typo, the title. I’ve been thinking about how – like a professional critic – a professional tester frequently needs to bridge the gap between the connoisseur and the consumer, to take the desires, constraints, needs, sensitivities …

WHOSE 2013 recap

WHOSE 2013 was held at the offices of Hyland Software December 5-7, 2013. A note first, this is my own experience of the workshop. I’m sure there will be other experience reports popping up soon, and they may have different, … Continue reading →

Justifying Real Acceptance Testing

This post is not about the sort of testing people talk about when nearing a release and deciding whether it’s done. I have another word for that. I call it “testing,” or sometimes final testing or release testing. Many projects perform that testing in such a perfunctory way that it is better described as checking, […]

Context-driven (presentation) heuristics

October 23 DEWT and James Bach met in Dordrecht to talk about testing. The subject was “What is context-driven testing?” and more specific “How do you recognize a context-driven presentation?”. They came together to prepare for the TestNet Autumn Event which was fully dedicated to context-driven testing and had the theme: “Exploring context-driven testing –…

Continue reading →