Archive for February, 2011

Exploratory Testing Lessons from the Tao Te Ching

Tony Bruce posted some quotes inspired by Taoist traditional writing from The Magic of Metaphor. I have a particular fondness for Taoist classics and I have a fair few translations of the Tao Te Ching on my bookshelf. I love the feeling of simplicity generated when reading. I cherry picked the following quotes with a [...]

Selenium Simplified – 2nd Printing Blues

Selenium Simplified was on Amazon, and now is awaiting copies – why? Because I took it out of print to make changes. I was embarrassed by the number of spelling errors and obvious grammar errors in the text so I made a revision. I’m waiting for a proof copy to come through from the print [...]

Can a new certification survey change the landscape of Software Testing Certification?

I doubt it, but what the heck. Let’s try. Inspired I was by Dot Graham’s explanation of the original reasons behind certification in “Certification is evil?”. Which in turn was inspired by the Software Testing Club “Tester is for life, not just for Christmas” e-book. My views on certification in the e-book were “You’re better [...]