New Book: The Domain Testing Workbook

Sowmya Padmanabhan, Doug Hoffman and I just published a new book together, The Domain Testing Workbook. The book focuses on one (1) testing technique. Domain Testing is the name of a generalized approach to Equivalence Class Analysis and Boundary Testing. Our goal is to help you develop skill with this one technique. There are plenty […]

Hire Ben Yaroch!

I’m currently available and looking for new test leadership or testing work. I’m located in Madison, WI and would like to work locally but am open to working remotely. I’m a context-driven tester and manager who views software testing as a skilled craft and my chosen career. I feel as a manager and tester that […]

Testing is an Onion

The other day Michael Bolton tweeted this”Art” is the activity of directing attention to things and providing affordances for interpretations. Which is why testing IS an art.I love this tweet not least because it itself affords so much opportunity for …

Tyranny of the Innocents, Exhibit A: Gary Cohen

Gary Cohen, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is not a computer guy. He’s a lawyer. He knows the insurance industry. And yet he was put in charge of a very large and important project: Healthcare.gov. Here’s what BusinessWeek said about him on August […]