My work is greatly influenced by fellow students of the craft. My friends are critical to my education.They help me focus my attention and they stir up my ideas.Here are some substantive examples from just the last two days in my life as a student of software testing:David Gilbert Skyped me with a new version [...]

An interesting time-lapse video. Neat to pick out the interactions revealed. Wish they hadn’t sometimes hammed it up for the camera.

I wrote an article for Automated Software Testing magazine on test automation politics for the November issue. The magazine is here: magazine download page and the PDF is available for direct download here: PDF Download. My piece starts on page...

Yesterday I set up a thought experiment in which we divided our day of testing into three 90-minute sessions. I also made a simplifying assumption that bursts of testing activity representing some equivalent amoun of test coverage (I called it a micro-session, or just a "test") take two minutes. Investigating and reporting a bug that we find costs an additional eight minutes, so a test on its own would take two minutes, and a test that found a problem would take ten.