Looking for failures in a system requires curiosity, professional pessimism, a critical eye, attention to detail, good communication with development peers, and experience on which to base error guessing.” This sentence from the CTFL syllabus would also scare you away? It sounds so depressing. Professional pessimism. Who wants that? I …
Take your test object. Turn it around. How does it smell? How does it taste? How does it feel? Can you suck at it as well as on the previous? What is the difference? Throw it away and see if Daddy also gets this one back to you… What I …
Agile testing days are over. I have not been there, but from Twitter it seems they happened in a different land – the Unicorn Land. Must be great there, all those helpful experts and friendly people, a lot of fantastic user names with certain message…: @FriendlyTester, @the_qa_guy, @badtesting, Testknight, …. …
Bind forever? Schiller is talking in his “Song of the Bell” about the bond of marriage, and assumes this is a lifelong bond. Nowadays, it is more common to talk about “marriage contracts”, so the above would read as “therefore test, who wants to subscribe a contract”. And I guess, …
Everybody loves agile. Really everybody? Is agile work in the new economy the utopia we all dream of? Is this the silver bullet to testers happiness? Isn’t that a weird question? You would not expect so see “sad” and “agile” in one sentence, wouldn’t you? But actually, there are quite …