Testing on Dune (Part 2)
Previously I highlighted a passage in Frank Herbert’s Dune that mentioned testing and said it was the first of two. This is the second passage: Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now it’s complete because it’s ended here.” —from “Collected Sayings of Maud’Dib” by the Princess Irulan, in Frank… Read more
Agile Testing book club: Courage
This is the third part on my series highlighting lessons I’m taking out of reading Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Other entries in the series can be found here. Chapter 4 is largely about transitioning non-agile processes to an agile workflow. There’s a lot here that would have been useful to me… Read more
Testing on Dune (Part 1)
I recently read Frank Herbert’s Dune and was surprised to find a couple passages on testing. I thought it would be fun to take them completely out of context (that’s a good habit for testers, right?) and try to apply them to software instead of spice. Here’s the first: Any road followed precisely to its… Read more