I just posted a few papers to kaner.com. Here are the links and some notes:Cem Kaner & Stephen J. Swenson, “Good enough V&V for simulations: Some possibly helpful thoughts from the law & ethics of commercial software.” Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Providence, RI, April 2008What an interesting context for exploratory testers! Military application software that canno

I know exactly how Antony Marcano feels when he berates those interviewees who claim to care about their work but don't read books about it, or visit web sites that discuss it, or take any practical steps to persue their so-called profession.

I find it's almost always a sign of someone who couldn't give a stuff. And I don't want to work with people who don't care.

In the various testing forums and mailing lists I frequent, I see lots of questions asked about automated test tools.  A certain question about performance/load testing tools is asked over and over.  I would like to answer it here.

The question goes something like:
"Can I test my application with this performance tool?".

If you are asking this question, you really don't understand the nature of these tools and how they work.

“Me too. Me too. Me too.” That sums up my reaction to Antony Marcano’s TestingReflections post on interviewing testers that just don’t ‘come up to scratch’. Those testers we interview who claim to have a passion for testing but don’t exhibit said passion.I’ve gone through the same as Antony and have no words of [...]