These past two days, Mobius has had the pleasure to host Mike and Dave’s excellent Exploratory Testing Practicum (PDF alert). One of our exercises on Wednesday was to think about some heuristics we use in every day testing and come up with easy-to-remember names for them. I’m sure that I am not the first to recognize this one, so I’ll also invoke the Pirate Heuristic to create it. I call mine the Turtle Test.

A title like that always makes an attractive proposition. Fergus O’Connell presents a simple system which involves doing more of the stuff you want to do and less of the stuff you don’t. Fergus present some NLP techniques, a bunch of questionnaires, some belief change exercises and some tips. It all adds up to a [...]