Evil Tester

After the discussion about passion and interviewing testers I started to rethink how I conduct interviews and I think that in the future I will use MS Paint as an application to see how candidates approach testing.
A long time ago, I wrote my own little app for use during interviews. You can play with […]

“I’m not Evil,
I’m doing it for your own good.”

“What testing books should I read?” such a hard question to answer in a land where a testing book that has value at one point in your career ceases to have value later on.
I do have some books that I recommend to testers, entirely ignoring their context - ha… see… Eeeevil…
So… 5 books, […]

“I’m not Evil, I’m Necessary.”

Any curious tester can find a number of published heuristic documents out there on the web (James Bach, Elisabeth Hendrickson)
‘Heuristics’ appear regularly on blog posts. (Mike Kelly, Ainars Galvans, Scott Barber, David Gilbert)
In this post I aim to show you an easy way of identifying new test ideas without recourse to heuristics, on a case […]

“Of course I’m not Evil.
Do I look Evil?”

Brief Therapy (and other therapeutic models) provides me with some useful ‘heuristics’, approaches and techniques to apply during my testing.
Brief Therapy - often called Solutions Focused Therapy concentrates on moving the client towards the ’solution’ that they want to achieve through the therapy process. Different from problem focused therapy which concentrate on the problems […]

A little history… As I did my best to teach a tester how to write test ideas for an Agile story I found myself wondering why I found coming up with ideas and questions a fairly easy activity and why they seemed not to find it quite so easy. Practice would have had something […]

“I’m not laughing…at ‘you’!”