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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

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 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

I no longer like to speak of "exploratory testers" because I think all testing worth doing is exploratory. My word for exploratory testing is simply "tester." Or perhaps "skilled tester." There are … [Read more...] about Inside the Mind of an Exploratory Tester

Bach, J. (1999). Playing the Expert Game. Computer, 32, 99–101. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.1999.10096 My brother Jon and I developed this article from a conversation about how he … [Read more...] about Playing the Expert Game

Jerry was a teacher and mentor of mine. My work elaborates on his. The topic of his thesis was the study of how people solve problems, and it shows how we can systematically study software testing, as … [Read more...] about Experiments in Problem Solving (Jerry Weinberg’s Ph.D. Thesis)