When Cem Kaner introduced the term “exploratory testing” in the mid-80’s, everyone ignored it. When I picked up the term and ran with it, I was mostly ignored. But slowly, it spread through the little community that would become the Context-Driven School. I began talking about it in 1990, and created the first ET class [...]

I told James Whittaker that I don’t use the term “manual testing” and that I prefer the term “sapient testing” because it’s more to the point. This is evident in the first definition of the word “manual” in the Oxford English Dictionary: ” 1. a. Of work, an action, a skill, etc.: of or relating [...]

Context-driven testing is apparently very difficult to understand. I wouldn’t have thought that it’s a difficult concept, except for the last decade I’ve watched hundreds of people in terrible confusion. Testers outside of the United States have an especially hard time with it, for some reason that escapes me.
I do have some working theory of [...]