"Tools for testers" course next month at STANZ
July 27, 2008
Paul Szymkowiak and I will be running a one-day workshop on tools for testers, as part of the STANZ conference. The current run on August 13th is full, but you can register your interest for future courses via SoftEd, or drop me a line. Details of the course are at http://www.softed.com/stanz/speakersandsessions.htm#tst I’ll have the presentation […]
Answering a question…
July 15, 2008
A few weeks ago, Designer commented on Software testing, art and productivity. The question got lost in amongst the comment spam, so I thought I’d give my answer a bit more prominently than usual. The question was: …Many people who want to get a web-developed project don’t even understand the details of work. They just […]
INVESTing in User Stories, revisited
July 14, 2008
Mike Cohn’s “User Stories Applied” discusses using the INVEST mnemonic as a guide to writing better user stories. I was recently asked to dig up a reference for it, and found this presentation here, with the section on the mnemonic on pages 47 and 48. As I read it, I noticed that there’s been a […]
Request for Beta Testers…
June 24, 2008
This was passed on to me via Paul Szymkowiak. Feel free to email me if you are interested in participating in this test for Security Innovation and I will pass on Pete’s contact details. ————————- Recruiting Beta Testers for Security Guidance System Usability Testing We’re looking for 50 beta testers for our new application security […]
Software testing, art and productivity
June 10, 2008
In the Yahoo software-testing list, Shrini Kulkarni stated “…productvity as a term is “bad” for creative work like “testing” or “art”. That makes me to feel that I am a low skilled labour on a manufacturing assembly line (not that – it is a bad profession but that does not represent the kind of job […]
Another Australian context-driven blog
May 14, 2008
Alister Scott, an Australian tester located in Brisbane has started a blog. There are a few Watir samples, and it’s always nice when a test automator puts their code up for scrutiny. I know my plans to do the same have taken far too long. Check his writing out at http://watirmelon.wordpress.com/
Not looking my usual self
February 14, 2008
Due to a persistent hacking attempt over the last few days, I’ve done an emergency upgrade. Things will probably look ugly until the weekend, so apologies to anyone visiting!
Things to look out for in your agile (or Agile) adoption
February 13, 2008
Jonathan Kohl pointed me at a position paper from Brian Marick for the Agile Coach Camp. If you’re in the middle of adopting agile, it’s well worth a read. You can find it here: http://wiki.agilecoachcamp.org/tiki-index.php?page=BrianMarickPositionPaper
The second MAST meeting, finally
February 1, 2008
Another year, and a chance to bring enthusiastic testers together to network and learn from each other. To this end, I’m going to be organising public MAST gatherings. This will be a bi-monthly drinks night at a venue to be decided. In addition to this, I’ve set up a Ning group to allow members to […]
Planning to make use of learning – Incremental vs Iterative
January 25, 2008
During coffee with Agile-coach and all-round excellent guy Shane Clauson, in sympathy with yet another of my what’s-wrong-with-agile rants, he pointed me to this blog post from Jeff Patton: Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it While my opinions diverge on some of what he says must be true, I […]