Colin Robb of HP asked me to take part in a live, interactive webcast which took place on 21 November 2007.

Co-panellist Paul Herzlich joined Colin and myself and we spent an interesting hour or so presenting three views and taking some Q&A.

The webcast was part of HP's launch of Quality Center 9.2 which can now be used to support the Project Intelligence approach I've been advocating for the last few years.

Someone recently related to me his experience using the new Microsoft Robotics Studio.  He loaded it up and proceeded through one of the tutorials.  To make sure he understood, he typed everything in instead of cutting and pasting the sample code.  After doing so, he compiled and ran the results.  It worked!  It did exactly what it was supposed to.  The only problem--he didn't understand anything he had typed.  He went through the process of typing in the lines of code, but didn't understand what they really meant.  Sometimes testers do the same thing.  It is easy to "test" something without actually understanding it.  Doing so is dangerous.  It lulls us into a false sense of security.  We think we've done a good job testing the product when in reality we've only scratched the surface.