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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: December 2011
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Testers, Learn about Agile (and Lean). Let me tell you about something called Dramatic Irony. You see it in movies, television shows, plays and in many other places. It happens when you (as the audience or observer) see or understand something that the main characters dont. Often times this is funny, sometimes its not. Personally, I am one of those that likes to laugh when I see this happen. Known) bugs go out; they check up on everyone in the team to see that they h...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: October 2011
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. The Future(s) of Software Testing. This topic keeps coming up in various discussions so here are some thoughts on what I think a future may hold for us one day. What does it mean to predict the future? Does it mean it is inevitable? If it is something appealing, maybe it is something we can work towards. What does it mean to talk about the Future of Software Testing without talking about Quality (whatever that is)? 160;Put another way, there is no one right way.
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: May 2012
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. What is Exploratory Testing? What is Exploratory Testing (ET)? I am asked this every once in a while and I hear a wide range of ideas as to what it is. This is one of those topics where Wikipedia. Doesnt really help much. Okay, so if ET = [good] testing, what is testing. According to Cem Kaner. If you ask Elisabeth Hendrickson. I studied Science in university and I love the way this definition reminds me of the Scientific Method. Much goodness in there! View my compl...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: Salary Thieves
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Yesterday I attended a Waterloo Agile Lean. Session on Story Mapping presented by Mark Levison. I had heard of Story Mapping but hadn't worked through it before. I liked the hands-on exercises approach Mark took to help us understand the process and benefits of that technique. This blog post is not. I love learning and take any opportunity I can to hear different speakers present on topics that I think may be of value. Sometimes I even attend the same. I tasked the s...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: What is Exploratory Testing?
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. What is Exploratory Testing? What is Exploratory Testing (ET)? I am asked this every once in a while and I hear a wide range of ideas as to what it is. This is one of those topics where Wikipedia. Doesn't really help much. Okay, so if ET = [good] testing, what is testing. According to Cem Kaner. If you ask Elisabeth Hendrickson. I studied Science in university and I love the way this definition reminds me of the Scientific Method. Much goodness in there! I dislike th...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: February 2013
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Test Management is Wrong. Test Management is wrong. There. I said it. I cant believe it took me this long to notice the obvious. If you are doing Software Development in any fashion, and are worried about how to manage your testing to develop a quality product, stop it. Lets be clear about what I mean here. If you consider any. Software development life cycle. SDLC) process, you will find activities like the following arranged in some fashion or other:. When I used t...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: August 2011
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Several years ago I wrote an article summarising some of the key points I keep in mind while interviewing candidates for a test team. The article is called Hiring Software Testers in an Information Age. Recently, a colleague and friend, Michael Mahlberg tweeted the following:. At Atari we hired based on hobbies and not grades in school. We ended up with the best engineering group in the world. I liked that comment and followed up with a supporting tweet:. Agile Coach...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: Where would you go?
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Where would you go? An old friend reached out to me recently to ask me some questions about Ruby, a very handy programming language to know if you are in testing, development or IT/Ops. During the conversation I mentioned that I am presently working as an Agile Technical Coach, and not in a Testing role of some kind. Testing means more in agile teams and takes many different forms. I have grown and learned a lot more about Testing than I ever knew since I started...
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: January 2013
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Ive been asked a few times over the past few months why I havent blogged in a while. Funny that. I have been writing more in this past year than I think I have my whole life. It turns out that the blog posts have fallen off the list of thought-sharing media for a short while. So heres a brief note to let you know why. About a year ago, I started keeping a daily journal as a consultant. I got the idea spark from my friend Pradeep in India. Monday, January 21, 2013.
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester: April 2013
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Lessons Learned by a Software Tester. Yesterday I attended a Waterloo Agile Lean. Session on Story Mapping presented by Mark Levison. I had heard of Story Mapping but hadnt worked through it before. I liked the hands-on exercises approach Mark took to help us understand the process and benefits of that technique. This blog post is not. I love learning and take any opportunity I can to hear different speakers present on topics that I think may be of value. Sometimes I even attend the same.