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Coding QA Podcast on Exploratory Testing
Submitted by Michael Bolton on Mon, 29/03/2010 - 00:16.Several months back, James Bach did an interview with the CodingQA guys, Matthew Osborn and Federico Silva Armas. In the interview, James talks about the skills of exploratory testing, sex education (now do I have your attention?) and how to use session-based test management with minimal overhead and maximum credibility.
I’m surprised at how [...]
Looping and Branching in Exploratory Testing
Submitted by Michael Bolton on Mon, 29/03/2010 - 00:17.In the interview with the Coding QA guys that was the subject of my last post, James Bach refers exploratory testing as parallel learning test design, test execution and learning, and said that exploratory approaches are epitomized by loops.
Where do loops happen in exploratory testing? In fact, exploratory testing includes both looping and branching. [...]
I Update My Blog and Discover Testing Tools
Submitted by Michael Bolton on Mon, 29/03/2010 - 00:18.For the last few weeks, I’ve been updating my blog and my Web site. This was inspired largely by Blogger’s decision to drop support for blog publishing via FTP. That would mean moving the blog to a .blogspot.com site, or to a custom domain that wouldn’t be developsense.com or a subdomain of it (later: not [...]
Management Mistakes (Part 1)
Submitted by Michael Bolton on Mon, 29/03/2010 - 00:18.Phil came into my office, and flopped down into the comfortable chair across from my desk. He looked depressed and worried. “Hey, Phil,” I asked him tentatively. “You look like something’s bothering you. What’s up?”
His brow furrowed. “I don’t know. I just don’t know. Sometimes I feel like people [...]
