Evil Tester

I was working out the kinks in my high level software testing model, and, through a process of speed reading and stichomancy I found that I have re-created an early Buddhist doctrine. In “The Story of Chinese Zen” by Nan Huai-Chin, I find listed the five Skandhas: form sensation conception activity consciousness I was boiling [...]

The notion of personas never really worked for me. “Bob is 35, single and likes kittens…” Blah Blah Blah. Clearly Bob has all the characteristics of a fictional closet psychopath. And that works better for me. “Bob is a closet psychopath”. I can use that sentence to inform my testing. I can attempt to  test [...]

Have you tried to build your own definition of Software Testing? One that you can refine as you learn more stuff and the years go by? That never worked for me. I don’t appear to align myself well with definitions and classifications. Building my own models however, now that works better for me. I have [...]

There I am, figuring out how to debug my FitNesse automation from within eclipse. And up pops the Firefox ‘update failed dialog’ and interfering with my automation. A bane and a pain when using Selenium RC. But with WebDriver there are easy ways round this. Start firefox with a profile and set the "app.update.silent" firefox [...]