testing-skill

How meeting an "empathic" tester proved that testing skill is mainly tacit, and is not reliably detected in an ordinary interview. … [Read more...] about How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method

I visited India and got excited about the quality of the testing minds I encountered there. This is an article published in three parts in Tea Time for Testers (12/12, 01/13, and 02/13, respectively). … [Read more...] about The Rise of the Intellectual Indian Software Tester

This is the article I published in the book A Gift of Time, which is a celebration of the work of Jerry Weinberg. Jerry is gone, now, but my work continues to be guided and shaped by his example. … [Read more...] about The Prince of Testers: A Salute to My Teacher, Gerald M. Weinberg

This is a worked-out example and discussion of how to do one kind of exploratory testing: reconnaissance and fast evaluation of a product that you've never seen before (we now call this "survey … [Read more...] about Testing Without a Map

I no longer like to speak of "exploratory testers" because I think all testing worth doing is exploratory. My word for exploratory testing is simply "tester." Or perhaps "skilled tester." There are … [Read more...] about Inside the Mind of an Exploratory Tester

This article came out of my experiences consulting around risk-based testing. … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting Risk-Based Testing

If you are a testing specialist, now more than ever, you must be able to explain testing to other people. … [Read more...] about Explaining Testing To THEM