I demoed some of my testing to
Maaret Pyhäjärvi the other
day. She asked a bunch of incisive questions, offered some helpful ideas on
framing my results, and then suggested that I should consider speaking and
writing about how I p…
I happened across Exploratory Testing: Why Is It Not Ideal for Agile Projects? by Vitaly Prus this week and I was triggered. But why? I took a few minutes to think that through.Partly, I guess, I feel directly challenged. I work on an agile project (by…
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester, which aims to provide responses to common questions and statements about testing from a context-driven perspective.
It…
Kent Beck, in More What, Less How, identified an unknown. But how will he move towards knowing? By exploring in 3X:Explore/Expand/Extract. The rules of exploration are that it’s a numbers game. More experiments, more value. Try a little bit of a …
IntroductionJames: A few years ago, Claire, a friend from the Cambridge tester meetups, asked if I’d be her mentor. I said yes and we collaborated for around 12 months as she took stock of her role and career direction, and worked to get to where she w…
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