This posting by Corey Goldberg illustrates an interesting and all too common kind of confusion people get into when discussing methods and practices. It’s worth pondering.
On SQAForums, someone stated:
“ISEB defines automated tested as useful only in mature testing environments and where functionality is not changing i.e. at regression testing.”
to which Corey replied:
“…and ISEB would be [...]

When I first joined ST Labs, years ago, we faced a dilemma. We had clients telling us what kind of bugs we should not report. “Don’t worry about the installer. Don’t report bugs on that. We have that covered.” No problem, dear customer, we cheerfully replied. Then after the project we would hear complaints about [...]

STAR East is next week, in Orlando, Fl. I will be there. I’ll be roaming the halls with my portable test coaching kit (currently being beta tested), hoping to talk to people.
I rarely go to a presentation at an exhibition conference like STAR, because I go to conferences to confer, and that’s a two-way process. [...]

This post was a criticism of a post by Paul Gerrard that has been withdrawn. Hence, I withdraw my criticism.