I was recently asked “What are the best career advancement steps for someone who is a junior to intermediate QA professional?”
Answer:
If you want your career to move into programming, study programming.
If you want your career to move into management, read everything by Jerry Weinberg.
If you want to be the best tester in the world, read [...]

A lot of people I teach seem to be under pressure to create more documents to describe their test process. But documenting is not testing. It is one of the chief distractions to testing.
“James Bach hates documentation!”, some people will say. No, I don’t. I hate waste. I hate boring clerical work that unnecessarily interrupts [...]

A core problem with quality in our industry is lack of will.
Lack of “will work”, that is. This is because it’s much easier to tell that a product can work than that it will work. And too often it turns out that products will not work in some situations even though they can in others.
Yet, [...]