Category: Learning
Free testing book
September 8, 2011
Via Ben Kelly, Rikard Edgren‘s brief but dense ‘Little Black Book On Test Design‘ is worth a read. It’s cheap both in dollars (free) and time (less than 15 minutes if you’re quick).
The second MAST meeting, finally
February 1, 2008
Another year, and a chance to bring enthusiastic testers together to network and learn from each other. To this end, I’m going to be organising public MAST gatherings. This will be a bi-monthly drinks night at a venue to be decided. In addition to this, I’ve set up a Ning group to allow members to […]
Planning to make use of learning – Incremental vs Iterative
January 25, 2008
During coffee with Agile-coach and all-round excellent guy Shane Clauson, in sympathy with yet another of my what’s-wrong-with-agile rants, he pointed me to this blog post from Jeff Patton: Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it While my opinions diverge on some of what he says must be true, I […]
Interview on Dr. Dobb's Journal
December 18, 2007
I wask kindly asked to answer five question for the Braidy Tester’s Dr. Dobb’s Journal Testing and Debugging page. It was a nice chance to reflect, and you can read my ramblings here: http://www.ddj.com/blog/debugblog/archives/2007/12/five_questions_41.html Enjoy!
Personal growth and fertilisers (or fertilizers)
August 22, 2007
Today, I’m translating the Korean children’s story ‘puppy poo’ for my blog. It turns out that somebody has already translated it, so it’s not the world-first I thought it was going to be. Oh well. I needed the Korean practice anyway. It’s a touching children’s story, about a piece of poo who finds meaning and […]
The Egg testing challenge, context and mission
August 17, 2007
Matt Heusser is describing his challenge to test various inanimate objects – An egg, a stapler, a salt shaker and a knife. Read it here, but be sure to come back for the rest of the problem. I’d now like you to spend a few minutes thinking about how you might go about testing an […]
Back to school…
August 13, 2007
I’m back at university, in an effort to force myself to knuckle down and get through the pain of learning Java. It’s been 16 years since I was last there, and here are a few of the things I’ve learned so far – I’ve learned about the syllabus Despite the move to Java, very little […]
Be a Ninja Tester…
May 2, 2007
James Bach is going to be in Melbourne early June, teaching his Rapid Software Testing course. If you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss out. If you’re not in Melbourne, try to get there anyway! Details can be found at http://www.softed.com.au/Courses/rst.aspx
Study session difficulties, or the Learning Organisation challenge
January 17, 2007
In the Yahoo group supporting Cem Kaner’s Black Box Software Testing course, Anil Soni has been describing experiences organising and leading internal training, using the BBST course materials. One point in particular caught my attention: > The major challenge is to have all the testers together in the same time > needed for the group […]