A concise list of the skills, dynamics, and work products of excellent testing. … [Read more...] about Elements of Excellent Testing
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Rapid Testing Guide to Making Good Bug Reports
This is a general guide to writing good bug reports. … [Read more...] about Rapid Testing Guide to Making Good Bug Reports
Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
This is a guide to a heuristic model of the tasks and dynamics of coaching testers. My approach to coaching is expertise-based (rather than some generic cheerleading kind of coaching which does not … [Read more...] about Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method
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
The Rise of the Intellectual Indian Software Tester
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
The Prince of Testers: A Salute to My Teacher, Gerald M. Weinberg
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
Testing Without a Map
This is a worked-out example and discussion of how to do one kind of exploratory testing: reconnaissance and fast evaluation of a product that you've never seen before (we no call this "survey … [Read more...] about Testing Without a Map
Inside the Mind of an Exploratory Tester
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
Troubleshooting Risk-Based Testing
This article came out of my experiences consulting around risk-based testing. … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting Risk-Based Testing
Explaining Testing To THEM
If you are a testing specialist, now more than ever, you must be able to explain testing to other people. … [Read more...] about Explaining Testing To THEM