Archive for August, 2007

Terminologizing and Danger Words

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

I just read this on another blog:
“Regression testing is usually seen as the poorer cousin of ‘proper’ domain-abstracted assertion-based testing. Often rightly so!”
In twenty years of doing testing, managing testing, attending many many conferences and reading many papers and books on testing, I have not heard of “domain-abstracted assertion-based testing”.
I don’t know what assertion-based testing […]

New Headquarters

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

This is my new office on Orcas Island. The rest of the house is piled high with boxes, but at least this part is functional. The body of water outside is East Sound, which is about a mile wide. The west side of the island rises up on the other side.
It’s peaceful here, except for […]