A blog about testing!
Last week I attended the Öredev conference in Malmö and spent the first three days learning about Rapid Software Testing from James Bach. The last to days of the conference I spent listening to a...
View ArticleIn the trenches and slowly moving ahead
I heard a rumour while I was attending Öredev in Malmö in november about a teamleader at my company. It was an inspirational rumour. The main thing was that he wanted to scipt more testing of the...
View ArticleI found a bug!
Yes, I found a bug and it made me so happy! Last Saturday we deployed a new release of a PDM system at a large company and everything was going fine. We had all new components in place and were testing...
View ArticleTester Tested!: Checkmate heuristic :: A security testing attack
I just read Pradeep's blog Tester Tested!: Checkmate heuristic :: A security testing attack and I just loved it. Thinking is the key here, as it always should be. If you want to test something you...
View ArticleI failed!
I failed! Yes I did and I'm not ashamed about it either. I learned an important lesson and I thought I’d share it.As I have mentioned before on this blog I am involved in both testing and in developing...
View ArticleLearning experiences
So, the man who claims to be thinking for himself woke up and remembered he had a blog. I haven't written anything here in a long time but I will start over and try to establish some kind of flow.I got...
View ArticleAsk a question!
I just a read a post by @siggeb on his blog. I put a question to @siggeb when he tweeted about that he "would ask the right questions" and I just had to say something. How does he know what the right...
View ArticleDocumenting the easy way
I recently read Michael Bolton'sblog post on Test ideas for documentation and was inspired. I thought about the points he made and the questions he asked and figured I could use them in my own way in a...
View ArticleBug magnet?
Do you ever feel like a bug magnet? Well I do, occasionally. I experienced a bug, well it there were several wrongs involved, last Friday in Gothenburg. Here's the story.I was in Gothenburg to see ZZ...
View ArticleEuroSTAR 2010 - a great experience
I attended my first EuroSTAR conference this week and it was very inspirational and a great learning experience. I was reminded of a lot of stuff I had more or less forgotten and I picked up many new...
View ArticleJam session / Test session
I try to relate all sorts of different experiences and events that take place in everyday life to testing. It helps me remember and it lights up new perspectives on testing. Maybe most importantly I...
View ArticleThere's hope for the future
Yesterday I was talking to my oldest daughter, 9 years old, when we were driving home from her school, like I do every day, and she told me they'd had a test/exam during the day. Nothing strange in...
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SWET2 - A great way to spend a weekend
Back home again, tired and inspired, after a weekend of test talk outside Göteborg. The second installment of SWET, SWET2, with 15 testers. This was my first peer conference and I hope there'll be more...
View ArticleThe certification experience
I have always taken pride in the fact that I have no degrees and no certifications since leaving high school many years ago. I must confess that it hurt my self image and my rebel heart when I agreed...
View ArticleOff-Shore? What?
Today I more or less lost it when I got tired of hearing people referring to off-shore. Yes, I know what they mean and I know that money talks and I understand that. But we’re not talking about some...
View ArticleI may call it the Bolton heuristic
This is jolted down rather quickly and I will revisit it and edit it later. It's one in the morning here so it is what it is. This is an idea and we'll see where it goes. Michael Bolton tweeted about...
View ArticleWhy do we test?
I recently started writing on what will be my first book. The title was the thing that came to me first together with the idea of subject. Why do we test? That's the title, at this point, and my...
View ArticleWhy do we test? - A bit more on the subject
I'm very happy with the response I got on my last post about the book project. I thought I'd stay on that subject and write some more about it.My starting point for this project was the "Why" that...
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Let's Test is just around the corner!
If anyone missed it, or perhaps simply don't care, there's a great software testing conference in Stockholm next week. Let's Test 2012Somehow I ended up in the role of conference chair or conference...
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