Microsoft has released a free test tool that does some pretty cool all-pairs test generation.
It’s called PICT. Unlike my tool, it has some sophisticated dependency handling.
I see only two downsides with it: a) they provide no diagnostic output, so you have to use elaborate hand checking or just hope that the output is correct. b) […]

Recently, a colleague of mine felt stung by something I said in an argument. He complained that I was making an “ad hominem” argument. I want to clarify this issue, because it’s a common mistake: what I was making was a personal attack, not an ad hominem argument.
A personal attack is when someone criticizes you […]

Brian Marick complains about people, like me, who prefer to use dictionary definitions of words such as agile, instead of capitalizing the word and using it as a brand name, as he does. Read his blog post here.
In his post, Brian said, It really gripes me when people argue that their particular approach is “agile” […]

I was recently invited to speak at Google on the subject of “Becoming a Testing Expert”.
You may view the video of the talk at Google Video. Sometimes the screen is hard to read, so you might want to read the slides in PDF form.
This talk is basically about how you can become recognized as a […]