I am a member of the Community of Thinkers
Jean Tabaka, Liz Keogh and others devised this statement and to me, it expresses the power behind a community of like thinkers. Patrick Wilson-Welsh mentions the idea of Network Weaving on his […]
Jigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks – The Ending
I was not able to finish the puzzle I described in the previous blog during the week I was at the cabin, but I decided to finish the story. One […]
Jigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks
One of the hardest things I find to get people to understand is how to think in small chunks when it comes to breaking up features and stories. One company […]
The Power of Personas in Exploratory Testing
There are many great articles and books on exploratory testing and I’m not going to try to explain what other people do better. What I do want concentrate on is […]
Programmers as Testers?
There was an interesting and bit controversial thread on the agile testing yahoo group over the last couple of days. Some people thought that all agile testers should have programming […]
Book Review – Jonathan Rasmusson “The Agile Samurai”
I first met Jonathan about ten years ago when he was a young programmer eager to prove to the world that he was the best he could be. At that […]
ATDD vs. BDD vs. Specification by Example vs ….
At Agile 2010, there were about 20 of us at the AA-FTT (Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools) workshop. The emphasis was on “the state of the practice” of Acceptance Test […]
About Learning 2
We know about how people learn – auditory, visual, kinesthetically. But what about those things we can’t know – like people’s attitude, or how our brain perceives messages. This post […]
About Learning
There have been a number of discussions about certifications lately on some of the on-line groups. People seem to be either ‘for’ or ‘against’ testing certification. I am neither, but […]
Quality – What is it, and what’s the cost?
Last night (Feb 1rsts) at the Scotsman’s pub in Oslo after the XP Meetup, I had an interesting philosophical discussion with Tom Gilb, Geir Amdal and Rune Sørensen. My definition […]