Here's my second attempt at a set of testing axioms. I've tried to name and define each with a 'one-liner'. The "Narrative/Action" makes a suggestion, and the "If you don't" suggests what might happen if you ignore the axiom. There are no recommendation as to the practice, process or heuristic you might want to deploy. Most axioms simply suggest you identify/agree/define an approach or appreciate/recognise a situation.
Paul Gerrard's Blog
Paul Gerrard's Blog
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Hi. At last, I've gotten round to setting up a web log. I'm using it to collect in one place some musings, announcements, ideas, opinions, criticisms and stances on issues that, well, seem to be of interest to me at the time. Feel free to comment.
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Why critical thinking is more imortant than ever
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 22:51.I'm an optimistic sort of fellow and I really thought that promotions like this:
http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1214245967_728.html?src=RU_bp_08_06_08...
... were fewer and further between in our industry.
Now I know it's foolish to think that technical people (with experience and relevant knowledge) will ever write marketing blurb (so it is credible), but it stil pains me to read this sort of thing.
"Top 10 Reasons to Implement Automated Application Quality Management"
Test Axioms Paper
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Tue, 20/05/2008 - 23:20.TaicPart is a joint commercial/academic conference and it's been a pleasure to sponsor the event last year and will be again in 2008.
I've articulated the thinking behind the Testing Axioms in a paper (that I obviously hope to present to the TaicPart community). My submitted paper on Test Axioms as Thinking Tools can be found here.
I hope the 70+ academics critically assess the Axioms as I have stated them and give me feedback.
Cool Science Toys
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 10:29.I'm a big fan of Dr Ben Goldacre's 'Bad Science' site and I commend it, if you appreciate good science and have a view on health matters. (You don't???)
A recent post I meant to mention in my blog earlier covers... Cool Science Toys.
Take a look. The Phun 2D Physics Sandbox toy is quite superb. I wish I was five years old all over again.
Comment's on Ben's blog introduce some other spectacular 'toys'.
Check this out...
HP Sponsored Webcast on Risk-Based Testing
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Mon, 21/04/2008 - 09:53.Colin Robb of HP asked me to take part in a live, interactive webcast which took place on 21 November 2007.
Co-panellist Paul Herzlich joined Colin and myself and we spent an interesting hour or so presenting three views and taking some Q&A.
The webcast was part of HP's launch of Quality Center 9.2 which can now be used to support the Project Intelligence approach I've been advocating for the last few years.
Simplistically, QC can be configured to provide coverage targets in three dimensions.
Test Management Certificaton Survey 2005
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Tue, 01/04/2008 - 14:53.A few items of information were left behind by the move to using a CMS to manage the site. One of these was a survey I conducted in 2005...
At the Test Management Forum meeting on Wednesday 26th October 2005, I introduced and facilitated a discussion of the “Skill Set of a Test Manager”. Inevitably, the potential for a Test Management Certification scheme was also discussed. The discussion was lively and covered a broad range of issues relating to skill-sets, the ISEB/ISTQB scheme – other attributes of good (and bad) Test Managers, assessment and recruitment.
Test Axioms - second attempt
Submitted by Paul Gerrard's Blog on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 23:19.Here's my second attempt at a set of testing axioms. I've tried to name and define each with a 'one-liner'. The "Narrative/Action" makes a suggestion, and the "If you don't" suggests what might happen if you ignore the axiom. There are no recommendation as to the practice, process or heuristic you might want to deploy. Most axioms simply suggest you identify/agree/define an approach or appreciate/recognise a situation.
Test Axioms - second attempt
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 01:00.Post Agilism - an apology to Jonathan Kohl
Submitted by Paul Gerrard's Blog on Sat, 01/03/2008 - 00:35.About a year or so ago I posted a Mr Angry challenge to a blog post by Jonathan Kohl. It was a grumpy complaint about a post of his description of the 'post-agilist' er, situation. A year ago, I was interested in what was happening but was no better informed at the blogs that talked of post-agilism. The grumpy post didn't achieve much except a bit of criticism of myself (but not much really ... ner ner).