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
My first game of TestSphere
Today (as I write this, last week as it is published) I had my first experience playing TestSphere. I’ve had a deck for ages but only recently suggested trying to play it with the QA community of practice in my department. Going from never having played it at all to facilitating a session with a whole… Read more
Agile Testing book club: Let them feel pain
This is the second part is a series of exercises where I highlight one detail from a chapter or two of Agile Testing by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin. Part one of the series can be found here. This installment comes from Chapter 3. Let them feel pain This chapter is largely about making the transition… Read more
Testing like you’re laughing
I was in a brainstorming meeting recently. The woman running the meeting started setting up an activity by dividing in the board into several sections. In one, she wrote “Lessons Learned” and in a second she wrote “Problem Areas”. The idea was that we’d each come up with a few ideas to put into each category and then discuss. I immediately asked, “What if one of the lessons I learned is that we have a problem area?”
The Greg Score: 12 Steps to Better Testing
Ok, I’ll admit right off the bat that this post is not going to give you 12 steps to better testing on a silver platter, but bear with me. A while back, I was trying to figure out a way for agile teams without a dedicated tester or QA expert on their team to recognize… Read more