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A correspondent writes: "I have a test management problem. We have a maintenance project. It contains about 20 different applications. Three of them are bigger in terms of features and also the … [Read more...] about Rapid Testing for Rapid Maintenance

It's not easy to talk about testing. This is a guide to avoiding the big pitfalls and having some of those difficult conversations. … [Read more...] about How To Talk About Testing

How meeting an "empathic" tester proved that testing skill is mainly tacit, and is not reliably detected in an ordinary interview. … [Read more...] about How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method

This is a detailed explanation of how automation helps us in software testing. We show that automation can do much more than merely simulating a user who is pressing buttons. … [Read more...] about A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing

This is an article by me and Aaron Hodder for the debut issue of Testing Trapeze. In this article, we explain why creating and performing test cases is not the same thing as doing testing. In fact, … [Read more...] about Test Cases Are Not Testing

I visited India and got excited about the quality of the testing minds I encountered there. This is an article published in three parts in Tea Time for Testers (12/12, 01/13, and 02/13, respectively). … [Read more...] about The Rise of the Intellectual Indian Software Tester

This is an article about being the only testing specialist on the team. Sound familiar? … [Read more...] about Omega Tester: Testing With a Team of One

Jon Bach is an excellent test manager. One of the finest I have known. Jon is my younger brother. I got him into testing and trained him. He worked for me for a couple of years. But we eventually … [Read more...] about Dinner With a Rapid Software Testing Manager

This is the article I published in the book A Gift of Time, which is a celebration of the work of Jerry Weinberg. Jerry is gone, now, but my work continues to be guided and shaped by his example. … [Read more...] about The Prince of Testers: A Salute to My Teacher, Gerald M. Weinberg

Combinatorial testing is one of my favorite things. And pairwise (aka all-pairs) test coverage is a popular combinatorial technique. But, just as with all other techniques, the hype around pairwise … [Read more...] about Pairwise Testing: A Best Practice That Isn’t