Archive for July, 2004

To Repeat Tests or Not to Repeat

Monday, July 19th, 2004

One of the serious social diseases of the testing craft is the obsession with repetition. Is that test repeatable? Is that test process repeatable? Have we repeated those tests? These questions are often asked in a tone of worry or accusation, sometimes accompanied by rhetorical quips about the importance of a disciplined process– without explanation [...]

Test Messy with Microbehaviors

Monday, July 12th, 2004

James Lyndsay sent me a little Flash app once that was written to be a testing brainteaser. He challenged me to test it and I had great fun. I found a few bugs, and have since used it in my testing class. “More, more!” I told him. So, he recently sent me a new version [...]