I often ponder the question ‘should we care about what we call things in the software development world?’ One could argue that as long as everyone has a common understanding, then it shouldn’t matter right? […]
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Software Testing World Cup – An Experience Report
After much anticipation, myself and three of my colleagues embarked on the Software Testing World Cup journey in the European Preliminary. We had prepared, strategised, booked rooms/monitors, bought supplies and all the other (actually quite […]
The Fallacy of the Single Point
Ever heard of the ‘Fallacy of the Single Cause?’ It refers to the rarity of single causes resulting in particular effects, it turns out the world is more complex than that. Many different inputs […]
Reviewed – The Testers Pocketbook by Paul Gerrard
I had heard a great deal about this little book. Some who had read it appreciated its premise, some were in fairly fundamental disagreement. If a text generates polar opposites of agreement, then that immediately […]
If you don’t believe it, why should anyone else?
The question of what skills do testers need intrigues me. This always occurs to me when engaged in the search for ‘good’ people to hire. We (as in the technical sphere) tend to hire predominantly […]
