I normally reserve this blog for the expression of interesting ideas related to testing, but today’s entry is an entirely practical and technical question.  I recently got a new laptop, and it came pre-installed with Win7.  I sprung for the Pro upgrade as well.  By and large, I like Win7…definitely better than Vista, although my [...]

Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of paperwork for a few clients, most of it being test plans. I hate paperwork; not that paperwork, or test plans themselves, are inherently evil. It is just that in about 90% of the [...]

I Love conferences. I go to them as often as I can, and I almost always come home feeling energized and excited. But there is a difference between coming home and feeling like you had a good time, and coming home and feeling like you were just a part [...]

Ahh, we are at that time of year again…Conference Time! I love conferences…but sadly, like many small businesses, my ability to attend conferences in the last two years has been beaten down by the economy in general. This hurts not only me, and others like me, but also the conferences; their attendance falls overall, which [...]

For the last four years, I have been working with a very large government organization on a variety of testing projects.  This experience has changed much of the way I look at and think about testing.When I first started in software QA, I was one of the “We are the gatekeepers of quality!” kinds of [...]

This morning, I am sitting here writing a blog about tool blindness.I am writing this blog, because I have the time to do it.I have the time to do it, because my test environment is down.My test environment is down because someone is installing and configuring and troubleshooting a new testing tool.  They have been since around the middle of the day yesterday, and an email just came out reiterating how important it is that everyone [...]

It’s that time of year again for me – conferences. I love this time of year, because I think conferences can be very valuable. The tough part is deciding which ones to go to, since I can only take so much time away from my real work to indulge in my ongoing professional [...]

I recently went to a conference, my favorite, StarEast.  For many reasons, I have been laying low this year, so for the first time in many years, we did not participate in the vendor expo, and I did not submit a presentation.  I was simply an attendee.  However, since we have been so heavily involved [...]