Evil Tester

Question: With two Agile Testing books out now, which one should you read?

Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
or
Agile Testing by John Watkins

Answer: Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.
No contest.

The following contains a true life summary of some recent testing to illustrate the use of Fiddler and some test thinking in action.
I know I have mentioned Fiddler 2 before and how I could not test web sites without it (OK, so I could but I’d use something like BurpSuite instead), but I like Fiddler […]

I mentioned that Fiddler forms an essential part of my web testing toolkit, and recently I had a hankering for knowledge of Security Testing. Somehow I found my way to a Fiddler plugin called Watcher from Casaba Security. This lets me slowly learn about security testing in the course of my normal testing.
Simple to […]

I’ve done a fair bit of Web and Flash testing recently and I suddenly realised how much I rely on various tools I have installed to help me. In fact, I don’t know how I ever managed to test web sites without these. So in this post I’ll provide a wee introduction to the tools […]

I still remember my first real test.
Do you?
Since I generalise wildly, I assume that you do.
Note: my first ‘real’ test. Not “the first time I found a bug”. For the purposes of this exercise I defined my first ‘real’ test as the first time I can remember purposefully thinking like a tester with regards to […]

Since Compendium Developments houses my book reviews, you may have missed:

How We Test Software At Microsoft
Apache JMeter
Software Testing An ISEB Foundation
Next Generation Java Testing
Head Rush Ajax

Which ones do you read?

CrossTalk
Testing Experience
Better Software
Software Testing and Performance
(IN)SECURE magazine
Methods and tools

Any more I should add to this list?

I recently facilitated a session on free and open source test tools at the Test Management Summit. This post contains an edited form of my notes prior to the event and some amendments and additions based on the discussion from the session. [Download the slides from the session]

I dislike the term QA when applied to testers in general. I dislike it more when applied to my team. I dislike it even more when applied to me. If you read this, and you use the term QA - stop it. 
Bad Trend towards QA
Unfortunately if I graphed the trend for verbal usage of […]

A few testers have recently mentioned the tool FireShot to me. Note they only ‘mentioned’ it to me - they should have raved about it and shouted out its name, and in between the effusive praising performed a little happy dance. This plugin works in both IE and Firefox and allows you to capture the […]