Evil Tester

Much as I appreciate the conciseness, usefulness and elegance of Regular Expressions; I just don’t use them enough to have mastered them or keep the rules in my memory. I used to rely on “Mastering Regular Expressions“, which I still find very useful. But I registered RegexBuddy about a year ago when I found […]

“I’m just doing WHATEVER it takes.”

“Me too. Me too. Me too.” That sums up my reaction to Antony Marcano’s TestingReflections post on interviewing testers that just don’t ‘come up to scratch’. Those testers we interview who claim to have a passion for testing but don’t exhibit said passion.
I’ve gone through the same as Antony and have no words of […]

A title like that always makes an attractive proposition. Fergus O’Connell presents a simple system which involves doing more of the stuff you want to do and less of the stuff you don’t. Fergus present some NLP techniques, a bunch of questionnaires, some belief change exercises and some tips. It all adds up to a […]

This evening I downloaded and started experimenting with Selenium-Grid when I looked down at my TaskBar and I got lost. I had too many File Explorer window open, and too many command line windows open. Something had to change. Step in UltraExplorer, and Console2.

I put my Software Testing Book reviews directly on my Compendium Developments site.
So if you only read Evil Tester then you missed out on Reviews of:

Effective Software Testing by Elfriede Dustin,
Software Testing Fundamentals by Marnie Hutcheson,
Testing Computer Software by Kaner, Falk, Nguyen,
Systematic Software Testing by Craig and Jaskeil,
Software Testing […]

I have done a lot of public talks over the years (but never enough to consider myself ‘good’ at it). Over the years I have adopted numerous approaches to constructing the presentation and of constructing the slides. You can see some of my worst slides. This slide pack seems better. But overall these slides […]

I love pulp novels. Particularly the hero pulps - The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Spider.
So when I saw “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on the bookshop shelf with its distressed cover and the sadly slightly camp depiction of Lester Dent (on the UK cover). I had to buy it. [amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]

Every so often there will appear a strange symmetry to the books and articles that I read. One such parallel which I found when reading Jo Owen and Joseph Campbell on the same day appears below.
I have encountered many other quotes which cover a very similar ground - but since both of these appeared at […]