Good research on testing is hard to find. Why? One reason is that testing does not belong to the field of Computer Science. I mean, sure, some of it does. There is some value to describing and testing an algorithm to efficiently cover a directed graph. But covering directed graphs is not my problem, most [...]

At the recent Workshop on Training Software Testers, Morven Gentleman showed us a chart of some test results. I was surprised to see a certain pattern in the results. I began to think of new and better tests to probe the phenomenon.
Morven told us that the tester who produced that chart did not see anything [...]

Have you ever had a software problem that disappeared even when you did nothing to correct it? Or have you ever fixed a bug by doing something that seems as if it shouldn’t have fixed anything?
Whenever that happens to me, I A) remain wary, and B) remove the fix so that by seeing the problem [...]

In the past two years, “Peer conference” and “exhibition conference” are terms I’ve come to use a lot. A peer conference is a get together among practitioners of a particular discipline for the purpose of learning to practice better. It’s a round table, sometimes literally. An exhibition conference is what most people call just conference. [...]