I’m pleased to announce that Pradeep Soundararajan is opening a franchise of Satisfice, Inc. in India. Pradeep has been a student of mine for the last few months. I’ve been very impressed with his sheer passion for testing and, more importantly, for his passion to learn to be a better tester. You can see this [...]

Cem Kaner has produced a 16-minute video that nicely explains why excellent testing must be exploratory to some degree, and why scripted testing can’t satisfy us if we want to find important bugs fast in a changing product.
You can find the video here: http://www.satisfice.com/bbst/videos/BBSTExploring1.wmv
Demonstration and explanation videos are the Big New Thing in the context-driven [...]

Cem Kaner recently posted an announcement of a class he’s giving. In the announcement he said “This course is not affiliated with a university. It is not accredited, not approved by any professional society and not associated with any certification effort.”
I smiled when I read that. Then I realized why I was smiling. [...]

I’m going to try a public Webinar. Two of them. I won’t charge for these, since they are just experimental.
The first one will be on January 3rd, from 3-5pm Eastern Standard Time. I will be covering the first two hours or so of my Rapid Software Testing class (the new 2.1 version!). I will accept [...]

Do you know what a philosopher is? I think a philosopher is someone who develops philosophy, as opposed to someone who accepts philosophy strictly ready-made from a trusted authority. By philosophy I mean an account of what the world is (Ontology) or how I can know about the world (Epistemology) or what matters about [...]