Gojko Adzic is a jolly nice chap who offers some jolly sensible advice about how we can use acceptance tests to act as executable specifications - described entirely in business terms - to drive the design and implementation of our software.

He's dead right, of course. So right, in fact, that maybe he doesn't know how right he is. I would

I’ve seen testers recommending The Art of War or Weinberg books which are not about testing at all. I’ve also seen performance testers recommending knowledge of probability theory, statistics and modeling principles. I don’t apply this knowledge in performance testing myself – well at least not directly. I never think about things like distribution function, mean deviation, etc. Do you? Don’t I ?!

I’m thinking of having badges made which say “Conscientiously Uncertified.” It’s for those of us who want to resist the dumbing down of our craft by cynical consultants promoting bogus tester certification programs.For me, when I see that someone is certified as CSTE, ISEB, ISTQB, or CSTQE, I immediately think “there goes someone who was [...]

We'll be at Agile 2008 presenting "Exploratory Test Driven Development: Red,Yellow, Green, Refactor".

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CoTestive is a new testing framework. At the time of this posting, it is in its very early stages; about 90% NUnit compatible. It's goals are to be:

1. NUnit & MbUnit compliant
2. FIT compliant
3. Extensible

In essence, it is slated to be comprehensive - a single testing framework that is developer-friendly, customer friendly, and extensible to suit the changing n