The CAST testing conference is happening in Colorado Springs, July 13-16. I mention this for two reasons:1. I will be teaching a testing tutorial there. I also will be wandering around with my various testing games and challenges hoping to do them with anyone who wants to see what I mean by “testing skills.”2. CAST [...]

Take a look at the screen shot, below. This is from my first five minutes of playing with Wolfram/Alpha. Do you see what’s wrong with it? I’ll tell you in a minute…Wolfram/Alpha is the new search engine that isn’t so much a search engine as a find-interesting-ways-to-analyze-data-and-show-it-to-me engine. It’s a closed system, as far as [...]

…a radio call-in show. It is not an open public forum.Sometimes I get complaints about how I handle comments. I received a quite thoughtful and persuasive complaint just a few hours ago. There is a teeny-tiny link on the front page of my blog that goes to my policy on comments, but I suspect few [...]

Beware, if you visit WebGreeter.com a disturbing thing will happen. You will be immediately accosted by what appears to be a chatbot, but is apparently a human doing a creepy impression of a chatbot. This cyborg thing will ask you for your contact information. If you give it to them, they may use it right [...]

Check out Is there a problem here?This is just what our craft needs. This wonderful, simple service brought to us by Ben Simo (AKA QualityFrog) documents bugs found in the field. I can use this in training new testers.There is a little problem with it: It’s biased toward reporting problems that are vividly depicted in [...]

If you ever wondered what happens when you quit LinkedIn and then come back again, I can report that all your contacts will be gone. I expected that. But I didn’t expect that the recommendations I wrote for other people would also disappear. To those for whom I wrote recommendations– sorry! I thought they would [...]

Now that I have symmetrical 4 megabit Internet access at my island office, I am able to offer live 90-minute webinars. Using GoToMeeting (a pretty good screensharing service that can connect with up to 10 people), I can speak to any small group. I am able to respond to questions and demonstrate some kinds of [...]

Tobbe Ryber (English pronunciation: Tobey Ruber) is the most famous Swedish tester I know. He is finally blogging in English, so I’m sure he’s about to become even better known.Tobbe is a context-driven thinker who has a lot to say about test design tactics. He also innovates with tester training exercises and with developing community [...]