Karen N. Johnson's blog
Can-Do List: One way to get unstuck. Really.
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Wed, 14/07/2010 - 18:25.I met a person working as a test contractor on a project recently who said to me: "There are no requirement documents so therefore I cannot write test scripts. And this means, I cannot test."
I've heard this before from other test contractors. I don't understand the logic being applied.
I tilted my head and was speechless. I thought I should keep listening to see if I could better understand. But I didn't. In this case, it seemed the tester believed the only way to approach testing was to read and review requirements, write test scripts, and then execute test scripts. Since this one approach was not an option in the environment at that time, the tester felt dead-ended with his work.
More articles on software testing
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Wed, 28/04/2010 - 15:25."Improve Your Testing and Your Testers with Paired Testing"
Ideas and stories on paired testing
InformIT, April 2010
"Insights from Running UAT Sessions"
recent articles on software testing
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Thu, 15/04/2010 - 23:57.Balance
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Sun, 14/03/2010 - 19:56.My online life was becoming consuming. And it’s easy to get out of balance especially when you live in a climate like Chicago where its winter for eight months (or at least feels like it.)
Building Alliances: a presentation recording
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 02:27.Explaining the other work we do
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:54.Here be dragons
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Thu, 14/01/2010 - 17:34.I also like SQL. I like being able to access a database and spend time with data. I teach a couple of different SQL classes and one thing I’ve found repeatedly has been people’s intimidation by having to write a join in SQL. It’s amazing how far people will go to avoid the dreaded join – it’s a bit like “here be dragons” - a territory marked with fear and uncertainty.
experiencing a bug as an end user
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Wed, 16/12/2009 - 06:02.In some ways it’s been interesting to feel like a user. To get whacked unexpectedly with a software bug that impacted my day and took time to resolve. Mostly it’s left me agitated and thinking less of the company.
Blackberry released an upgrade to their software and I took the release. I didn't notice straightaway that the update stomped out my Google sync settings. Wiped out Google sync entirely, I had to reinstall. And impacted my Gmail, calendar and maps.
