A while ago, I read David Galenson’s “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity.” This book was appealing to me because I use to be an art student and I’m always looking for books on creativity, but as I read it I started to see patterns in it that lead [...]

In April we held the first IWST workshop for 2008. The topic of the all day workshop was ‘SOA Testing.’ We were able to get through five experience reports (with open season questioning) and we looked at some specific examples in iTKO LISA. Thanks to Mobuis Labs for hosting us and providing breakfast. Attendees of [...]

Cem and I have announced that we are suspending activity on the Open Certification project to focus our efforts on the AST Black-Box Software Testing (BBST) courses and working to develop a skills-based certification based on that material. The original Open Certification project was focused on providing an open alternative to question-based certification exams, focusing [...]

I have a recommendation from an additional application tour from Cem Kaner. “Testers should be touring the market context as well as the product itself. For example, a lot of customer expectations are best discovered from regulations, competitive products, magazine articles or books about this class of product.”I like it.I’m trying to figure out a [...]

For the purpose of this post, please ignore that I’m currently the president of AST. For once, this is not me promoting the conference just because of my role in the organization. I am genuinely floored and thrilled by the program that the CAST team pulled together for this year. I always have high expectations [...]

The third and final article in my SearchSoftwareQuality.com Testing for Performance series posted. The complete series can be found here:Testing for performance, part 1: Assess the problem spaceTesting for performance, part 2: Build out the test assetsTesting for performance, part 3: Provide information

The Conference for the Association for Software Testing is coming up in Toronto in July–the 14th through the 16th. Jerry Weinberg will be our keynote speaker. Aside from the Amplifying Your Effectiveness Conference in Phoenix in November and his PSL workshops, I believe that this is his only conference appearance this year. Jerry will also [...]

“Instead of focusing on training for a complex task, how can you make the task easier to perform?” -InfluencerAmong other things, I’ve been leading a performance test team for the last couple years now. It’s been an uphill battle trying to find and develop the right talent, tame the performance testing environments, and deliver consistent [...]