I've been thinking about the way agilistas handle bugs recently. Several years ago, I was the editor of an internal IT newsletter for a large Australian financial organisation. Every month, I'd include a critical thinking puzzle, and I select a correct entry to win 2 movie tickets. I was able to give these out to my Australian readers, but I used to get some entries from our Indian IT shop as well. I arranged to have them win 2 movie tickets as well, if they were chosen as the winner. I thought this was a comparable prize, then I discovered that movie tickets are very cheap in India. In Australia, the prize would pay for a weeks public transport, but in India it would be only a day or two.

I visited The Testing Museum in Las Vegas during my Christmas vacation.

It was rather interesting although not a lot of original test artefacts were present there.

I really enjoyed the STP conference. I am not afraid to say that it was the best conference that I've ever attended. Almost all the presentations that I attended were very good. I was especially impressed by Hung Nguyen (I've never been to one of his presentations before). His straight to the point presentation was about test automation outsourcing.

Recognizing Patterns of Behavior In my last post, the term "patterns" caused strong responses from some readers. When I use the term "pattern," I do not mean a design pattern, or a rule to apply when testing. For my purposes,...